Anonymous wrote:Sorry you have to rely on the heated seats of your car to keep your soul warm.

I find my happiness in my amazing, handsome loving husband; the home cooked meals we make together at night; and the sweet baby we are expecting. We both have graduate degrees, good jobs, and can afford nice cars -- but those are not the things I would list if I were to brag about why I feel luckily. I just feel sorry for you OP.

like something out of a poorly written novel sold at CVS

Sorry you have to rely on the heated seats of your car to keep your soul warm.

I find my happiness in my amazing, handsome loving husband; the home cooked meals we make together at night; and the sweet baby we are expecting. We both have graduate degrees, good jobs, and can afford nice cars -- but those are not the things I would list if I were to brag about why I feel luckily. I just feel sorry for you OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually I'm not. I didn't come from money. Lower middle class at best and a shitty mid western town that is slowly decaying due to offshoring.

Sorry you didn't choose a major in college that has high paying mid career salary and went with a liberal arts degree that makes you feel smart but pays $30k a year. You should have taken out loans like me and gone to business school. Sorry you didn't take a job fraught with risk and move to the budding new Silicon Valley of nova with a ton of student debt but with hope for the upside. Actually nope not sorry at all. The heated seats in my GL550 warm my soul.

Oh God. This is so embarrassing and nouveau riche. I can't even deal.

As often as this comes up in DCUM, I still can't figure out why it's good to have inherited your money from your great-grandfather but embarrassing to have made it yourself.

Because of people like this. people who are nouveau generally have no manners, dont know which fork to use, etc etc etc. No etiquette, no social graces, no charm or reserve. As the obnoxious OP proved. If you are looking for why the old guards hate new money, well, you're looking at it.

Actually the old guards hate new money because it's a reminder that the privileges they enjoy are ephemeral.

What are you talking about? Most old money people have trusts and business to pass down. Of course one day it could go away, but theres a much lower likelihood of that than there is for some new money person working at a desk job under someone else. Keep deluding yourself.

There are people who are so poor that the only thing they have is money.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually I'm not. I didn't come from money. Lower middle class at best and a shitty mid western town that is slowly decaying due to offshoring.

Sorry you didn't choose a major in college that has high paying mid career salary and went with a liberal arts degree that makes you feel smart but pays $30k a year. You should have taken out loans like me and gone to business school. Sorry you didn't take a job fraught with risk and move to the budding new Silicon Valley of nova with a ton of student debt but with hope for the upside. Actually nope not sorry at all. The heated seats in my GL550 warm my soul.

As a proud conservative, I agree with you on the need for people to make their own success in life. But I'm sorry you are an asshole about what you've achieved.

Does someone make their own success when they pay for school through student loans backed by the Federal government and then take a tax deduction based on the interest paid on the loan?

I'm a proud moderate, and I think that we should provide assistance to people so that hey can gain the skills they need to be successful. I think that people who get help need to remember that they benefited from the help provided and should not become asshats like OP.

I'm the PP who posted that comment about making your own success-- and yes, I think becoming successful with the aid of student loans, or whatever assistance one needs, is perfectly acceptable. Wonderful, in fact. Many of the most successful people receive help of some kind to get there, and then they pay it forward when they arrive. Sadly, some people become a success and then just brag about their GL550. I didn't mean to imply that people should become successful with no help from others. Just that hard work and an independent spirit is really what it's all about-- you can't expect to become successful without working hard. That's all. (And what I really wanted to say is that the OP is an ass.)

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Anonymous wrote:Actually I'm not. I didn't come from money. Lower middle class at best and a shitty mid western town that is slowly decaying due to offshoring.

Sorry you didn't choose a major in college that has high paying mid career salary and went with a liberal arts degree that makes you feel smart but pays $30k a year. You should have taken out loans like me and gone to business school. Sorry you didn't take a job fraught with risk and move to the budding new Silicon Valley of nova with a ton of student debt but with hope for the upside. Actually nope not sorry at all. The heated seats in my GL550 warm my soul.

Oh God. This is so embarrassing and nouveau riche. I can't even deal.

As often as this comes up in DCUM, I still can't figure out why it's good to have inherited your money from your great-grandfather but embarrassing to have made it yourself.

Because of people like this. people who are nouveau generally have no manners, dont know which fork to use, etc etc etc. No etiquette, no social graces, no charm or reserve. As the obnoxious OP proved. If you are looking for why the old guards hate new money, well, you're looking at it.

Actually the old guards hate new money because it's a reminder that the privileges they enjoy are ephemeral.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, Republican, but you are the epitome of the compassionate conservative who just doesn't understand this very basic distinguishing factor. As you've stated, you are happy to help those you deem worthy of assistance, but I suspect you aren't a fan of eradicating homelessness and poverty by expanding the safety net. That's the real difference. And if you say you are in favor of eradicating homelessness and poverty, then you are voting for the wrong party.

The safety net has been expanded. Has this ended homelessness and poverty?
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The government is not the answer to ending poverty and homelessness. Seems as if expanding the safety net has only expanded the problem.

I wonder if there was some significant economic event that happened around 2006 that might have caused lots of people to lose their jobs and need food assistance.

You mean 2008/2009? Because things looked pretty stable until then. Oh, yeah, that is when our current administration took office.

Look at the graph. It was 2008/2009 when that “safety net” was expanded and the increase in


Pretty stable? Are you out of your gourd? The economy had tanked BEFORE Pres Obama took office. The housing crisis was in full effect, banks were failing. Get a clue.

Look at the graph. It was 2008/2009 when that “safety net” was expanded and the increase in SNAP benefits has not subsided - only grown, despite claims that the economy is improving.

Oh man, this thread has made me so glad I was raised with money. I have a trust fund and while I respect people who work hard for their money, there's something so incredibly unglamorous and spartan about people who scrimped and saved their money and then gloat over a Mercedes as if they've won an Olympic medal. It's just so very boring and pedestrian and suburban.

Anonymous wrote:Why do people think the OP is a guy?

My first thought when I saw the post about the penis. I'm surprised that all the women's studies majors didn't catch that immediately. I am much like OP but I am a woman. Although I am routinely told I have brass balls.

I'm secretly in agreement with you, OP. I have worked really hard and made sacrifices to have enough money to be comfortable. I have a younger sibling who has made bad choices -- despite very nearly getting a Ph.d, seems to just want to spend time on his hobbies and is constantly developing new ones and pretending they're a career choice, and I do NOT feel bad for him for being broke.

Almost every unemployed person I know has a business degree.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually I'm not. I didn't come from money. Lower middle class at best and a shitty mid western town that is slowly decaying due to offshoring.

Sorry you didn't choose a major in college that has high paying mid career salary and went with a liberal arts degree that makes you feel smart but pays $30k a year. You should have taken out loans like me and gone to business school. Sorry you didn't take a job fraught with risk and move to the budding new Silicon Valley of nova with a ton of student debt but with hope for the upside. Actually nope not sorry at all. The heated seats in my GL550 warm my soul.

Oh God. This is so embarrassing and nouveau riche. I can't even deal.

As often as this comes up in DCUM, I still can't figure out why it's good to have inherited your money from your great-grandfather but embarrassing to have made it yourself.

Because of people like this. people who are nouveau generally have no manners, dont know which fork to use, etc etc etc. No etiquette, no social graces, no charm or reserve. As the obnoxious OP proved. If you are looking for why the old guards hate new money, well, you're looking at it.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, Republican, but you are the epitome of the compassionate conservative who just doesn't understand this very basic distinguishing factor. As you've stated, you are happy to help those you deem worthy of assistance, but I suspect you aren't a fan of eradicating homelessness and poverty by expanding the safety net. That's the real difference. And if you say you are in favor of eradicating homelessness and poverty, then you are voting for the wrong party.

The safety net has been expanded. Has this ended homelessness and poverty?
Just one example:


The government is not the answer to ending poverty and homelessness. Seems as if expanding the safety net has only expanded the problem.

I wonder if there was some significant economic event that happened around 2006 that might have caused lots of people to lose their jobs and need food assistance.

You mean 2008/2009? Because things looked pretty stable until then. Oh, yeah, that is when our current administration took office.

Pretty stable? Are you out of your gourd? The economy had tanked BEFORE Pres Obama took office. The housing crisis was in full effect, banks were failing. Get a clue.

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You mean 2008/2009? Because things looked pretty stable until then. Oh, yeah, that is when our current administration took office.

That's not how I remember it. It's probably not how people who worked for Lehman Brothers remember it either. And if you thought in 2006 that everybody taking out all of those shady mortgages on expensive houses would be able to pay off the mortgages, then you're a sweet little rose-colored-glasses-wearing optimist.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually I'm not. I didn't come from money. Lower middle class at best and a shitty mid western town that is slowly decaying due to offshoring.

Sorry you didn't choose a major in college that has high paying mid career salary and went with a liberal arts degree that makes you feel smart but pays $30k a year. You should have taken out loans like me and gone to business school. Sorry you didn't take a job fraught with risk and move to the budding new Silicon Valley of nova with a ton of student debt but with hope for the upside. Actually nope not sorry at all. The heated seats in my GL550 warm my soul.

Oh God. This is so embarrassing and nouveau riche. I can't even deal.

As often as this comes up in DCUM, I still can't figure out why it's good to have inherited your money from your great-grandfather but embarrassing to have made it yourself.