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Old 03-17-2013, 13:37   #5
BKKMAN
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Originally Posted by GratefulCitizen View Post
Poverty isn't so much caused by an inability to earn as it is an inability to prioritize spending.
That's the "money shot" right there...

For Rebecka and Jourie:

First kid their senior year in high school and then not learning from that and actually doubling down and having another one...

$110 cell phone bill, when they could buy "pay as you go" disposable phones

$75 tattoo parlor bill...WTF? Guess their matching "Livin' la vida loca" tattoos were more important than their kids eating...

A car with a $360 a month lease payment at 18% interest...

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“Damn it!” Rebecka said again, racing around the store, oblivious to her own list, picking up anything that looked healthy or filling and dropping it into the cart.
People like this making a succession of shitty life choices and mismanaging their finances putting them in a persistent death spiral and cycle of poverty and dependence on the government to bail them out in perpetuity...
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