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conuly"People who don't have money don't understand the stress," said Alan Dlugash, a partner at accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York who specializes in financial planning for the wealthy. "Could you imagine what it's like to say I got three kids in private school, I have to think about pulling them out? How do you do that?"
Don't you just weep for these poor rich people?
For all the talk about "class warfare", sometimes I think we don't see nearly enough of it.
Don't you just weep for these poor rich people?
For all the talk about "class warfare", sometimes I think we don't see nearly enough of it.
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Date: 2012-03-23 04:40 pm (UTC)...I've NEVER owned a fucking dishwasher. Also, re. your quote, that guy ought to try having to decide between sending his kids to (free/scholarship) school and giving them lunch, because the number of times my mama had to make that decision bc we couldn't afford the school bus fare AND lunch...
And a month's family holiday every year? Wow. Last family holiday I had was aged ten, funded by Leukæmia Care charity because my mama had cancer. And that lasted a week. It's been six years since I could go away even for THAT long.
Foaming at the mouth, just a bit!
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Date: 2012-03-23 04:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-23 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-23 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-24 03:57 am (UTC)Funnily enough, the part that bugs me the most is the guy searching for deals to buy his box cereal on sale or with coupons instead of not checking prices.
We never had much cereal as kids because at the prices they charge and with the low nutritional value it really is a luxury food, though it wasn't told to us that way, I don't think. And the nieces only get cereal on special occasions. We're not stinting on the food budget, not hardly, but that line about the cereal just bugged me.
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Date: 2012-03-24 12:33 pm (UTC)(How is this a problem?)
When I was poorer, I think box cereal was my only source of certain vitamins. And I still only bought it on sale.
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Date: 2012-03-23 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-24 03:58 am (UTC)I don't understand this.
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Date: 2012-03-23 04:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-23 04:41 pm (UTC)Oh those poor rich people. It must be so hard to have everything and not worry about base necessities. It's so much easier to worry about getting evicted, or wondering if you have enough to buy food, or not having enough to pay utility bills, or not being able to go to the doctors when you're sick. It's waaaaay more stressful to worry about keeping up a privileged lifestyle!
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Date: 2012-03-23 04:59 pm (UTC)I know! My god, the man has to wash his own dishes! The horror!
I'll bet he doesn't.
Date: 2012-03-23 06:56 pm (UTC)I will wager anything you care to name that he has a dishwasher.You know, the nifty little gadgets where you put the dishes in, walk away and when you come back they're clean.I haven't had a dishwasher since 2005. I make my own dishrags, too, but that's getting off topic.
Okay, my bad, I clicked over. My reaction is still CRY ME A FUCKING RIVER.
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Date: 2012-03-23 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-23 08:16 pm (UTC)The recent economy made a lot of people change how they live and what choices they can and should make. But if you have food, work, housing and medical care, you're probably going to be just fine, even if it doesn't feel so great right now. Boohooing about vacation homes and private schools is just sick.
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Date: 2012-03-23 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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