Actualy it's past time they stuck us all in cardboard boxes after we've gone on to whatever comes next. Personaly, I'd just as soon be dropped of in the wild somewhere so I could at least feed some hungry carnivores. But, no, we are too civilized for that sort of thing. Besides how much money can the funeral business l...more

You mentioned getting through school as quickly as possilbe.  Here's another tactic. WORK your way through. My financing was with a credit union. I borrowed enough for a semester and then repayed that while I was going to school. It took me six years to get my BA, but at the end of it all, I only owed for my final seme...more

Couple of big items missing here. What are these folks doing about health care, especialy with children at home?! Are they driving around without vehicle insurance? If their homes are damaged or destroyed will they just walk away from what's left? If they are paying for insurance, there's no way they are getting by on ...more

What I didn't see in this article is a rate comparison with all the payday and title loan places that have sprung up all over. They've gotta be pretty steep.

Sorry I can't remember the artist or the title of the song but "when I die, don't put me in the cold, cold ground--cut me up and pass me all around..." has been a mantra of mine since the seventies! Fiat Lux!

Here's what GM should do--be READY for the next energy crunch.  They missed the boat the last time around, but how long will it be till we see $4.00/$5.00 gas? A year, maybe two at the most. A lot of people have already forgotten about conservation-again! People start working again, China starts  booming again, oil wil...more

I'll work for only $400K, which is a bout 8 times what I make now!

Who is this joker? I've been working since I was 16.  That's forty-three years ago I started.  For the last twenty years I've had at least two jobs, sometimes three. I plan to retire three hours after I'm dead. What America needs is all those jobs back that went overseas.  Here's the way it works.  You start (a lot of ...more