This should give people an idea of the sense of scale associated with the national debt spending and how "eating the rich" simply will NOT cut it. NOT a problem of people hoarding the money, a problem of spending money that simply doesn't exist.

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I still have to write up the things I learned in DC (and it's a lot of very good, meaty

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Found out the other night that I only have $6,000 left on my car =D I thought I was a fair bit higher than that left still XD I'm planning to throw in at least another $3,000 into it by the time I leave DC. That'll be so nice to have that paid off =D

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Went down to LA and spent almost $3000 in one day =X ( Read more... )

A year ago from last Sunday I graduated. So much has changed since then. 5 months without working and massive expenses accumulating into about $7,000-8,000 in debt to my dad and my credit card. That is only one payment away from being completely paid off ( Read more... )

When it rains it pours XD As you all know I lost my wallet. Well no one has found it and gone shopping apparently, so that's VERY good. However, a near equivalent has happened anyway XD My student loan payment decided to screw up and double draw from my account. This puts me down $500 extra and puts my bank account at zero. Normally not a huge ( Read more... )

A bombshell was dropped on me at work today. Considering that I technically work for the government and the things that we do at this job have funding from many, MANY different sources. You have to be using the right sources and they are all finite (as much as congress would have you believe otherwise). The problem is that I was hired at the end of ( Read more... )