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  • #31
    Quoth Rocko View Post
    On a side note, I had to deal with a woman, who I will call Flashlight Lady, who was like a lot of SCs on this thread.
    Wouldn't it make sense for the lady to pay her bill? I'll bet she was spending more than a month's bill in flashlights and batteries.
    I pray for the strength to change what I can, the inability to change what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference -Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes

    Being a pessimist and cynical wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't right so often!

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    • #32
      People like that don't ever consider totals. They look at how much cash they have at the time, and rather than thinking that they could burn candles (cheaper) or just save up those couple bucks each time to pay a bill at the end of the month, they spend the money as soon as they have it in hand.
      "In the end I was the mean girl/or somebody's in between girl"~Neko Case

      “You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.” ~William Stafford

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      • #33
        Quoth Rocko View Post
        On a side note, I had to deal with a woman, who I will call Flashlight Lady, who was like a lot of SCs on this thread. This woman came in a few times, to buy flashlights because she didn't have electricity and was on a fixed income. She would buy the cheap, $3.50 flashlights with the even cheaper batteries, which I should say are notorious for burning out early, especially when they are used for hours at a time.
        In general, quality pays for itself. One of the tricks to doing finances is figuring out when higher price tags indicate higher quality, and when they just indicate higher profit margins for the manufacturer.

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        • #34
          As I understand it, the concept of a 'fixed income' originated in the early days of welfare payments. Noone had yet realised that the payments needed to be adjusted for inflation, so they were "fixed" against inflation.

          Welfare payments were a subsistence income, just barely more than starvation levels. So once the calculation was five or ten years old, being on a fixed income meant you needed charity (or supplementary income somehow).

          The idea of people in fixed incomes deserving a break comes from the fact that many of them, at the time, were war veterans disabled in the service of their country.


          Neither of these are the case, anymore. (Well, not usually.)
          Seshat's self-help guide:
          1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
          2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
          3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
          4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

          "All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.

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          • #35
            I don't mean to offend anyone, but if I work 40 hrs a week and can't afford a luxury, then there is absolutely no reason someone whose income is based off of taxpayers' money should be able to have it either. That's the way I see it.
            You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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            • #36
              "You are on a fixed income? Well, that's lucky, because it will never get any lower, so you are able to BUDGET FOR WHAT YOU BUY! My income is variable, because I am on commission/paid by the hour, and it can be really difficult sometimes, I can tell you."

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