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"Scraping by" on $150,000 a year.
The girl whose parents raised her and her brother perfectly fine on two incomes that probably totaled about what I'm making right now at my crappy job HAS NO WORDS.
The girl whose parents raised her and her brother perfectly fine on two incomes that probably totaled about what I'm making right now at my crappy job HAS NO WORDS.
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Date: 2006-12-21 08:18 pm (UTC)And we turned out ok. (except for that body in the freezer...)
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Date: 2006-12-21 06:12 pm (UTC)PRIORITIES, PEOPLE.
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Date: 2006-12-21 06:16 pm (UTC)Back in July, the commenters in the great weblog Making Light had a very interesting discussion about a similar case.
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Date: 2006-12-21 06:20 pm (UTC)That's... a hundred and twelve THOUSAND more than the average income up here. Those people need to sell that horse and get themselves an ACCOUNTANT, is what they need...
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Date: 2006-12-21 06:40 pm (UTC)I know there's that saying about not looking a gift horse in the mouth, but if you think about cracking its jaws open to look for a winning lottery ticket, give the horse back.
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Date: 2006-12-21 06:47 pm (UTC)Then again, we're not American, and certainly haven't had the time to build the kind of complacency that comes with living for generations without worrying about getting killed or where your next meal is coming from. I think my parents hammered constant vigilance about money into me pretty well, but I worry what my kids will be like.
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Date: 2006-12-21 06:57 pm (UTC)I know where they live--I've taught in that school district, and it's just up the road from where I live. Elkhorn people are generally crazy anyway (the "new" ones anyway, the ones who've moved out there because they're afraid of the ooo, scary, nonwhite people in Omaha *rolls eyes HARD*), but that's just WRONG.
I'm joining the list of people who are calling their parents. Mine sent 7 kids to Catholic school (in Omaha) and kept us fed and clothed and in a good house for a very small fraction of what that family has at their disposal, and we sure didn't have no stinkin' pony.
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Date: 2006-12-21 07:15 pm (UTC)...I seriously want to punch some sense this family. Over a billion people in the world live on less than $1 a day! I consider myself comfortably well off, and am able to save, on £12k a year after tax! (That's about $24k, right?)
They have a fatal case of affluenza, and absolutely no perspective or imagination. *grinds teeth*
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Date: 2006-12-22 05:44 pm (UTC)OOOOOHHH!!! I love that!! Beautiful!
Thank you for an absolutely *wonderful* new word!!!!! :D
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Date: 2006-12-21 08:10 pm (UTC)How, you may ask?
PRIORITIZATION.
Gnah. *headthunk*
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Date: 2006-12-21 08:23 pm (UTC)THE. HELL.
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Date: 2006-12-21 08:25 pm (UTC)Not.
If I had $150,000 a year I could rule the world. Or at least save most of it.
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Date: 2006-12-21 09:05 pm (UTC)Those folks are self-idulgent MORONS. And don't even get my STARTED on the whole FOUR kids thing.