Comments on: It’s Andy Rooney Time. What a bunch of crap.

By: Bird Clan Diva

Bird Clan Diva — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:07:09 +0000

I have two jobs, take care of an elderly grandmother, have to deal with celiac’s disease (and all the expensive drugs and doctor’s visits), and still manage to get my debts paid off and get a 4.0 each semester. And all of this during a recession that has caused my wages to get cut, my loan interest to jump astronomically, and gas prices to take a massive chunk out of my weekly pay.

Needless to say, I have ZERO sympathy for this silly woman. She ran up all of this fricking debt before the recession had even started, and then tries to use it as an excuse for not sorting her life out.

What you said: “Am I reading this correctly? She just said: “I thought about trying …but it sounds hard. And, from the goodness of my heart, I don’t want to take the job away from someone else.”” Is spot-on. I’ve heard this same b.s. excuse from a few of my acquaintances, and it always manages to make me feel like waving my arms in the air maniacally and shrieking like a banshee.

By: imurdstiny

imurdstiny — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:36:03 +0000

I am over $100k in debt in LAW SCHOOL LOANS.

However, I have $0 in credit card debt.

WHO AM I ALLOWED TO SHIFT MY BLAME TO?

By: Kez

Kez — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:19:08 +0000

Here here!
My husband and I got hit hard by the recession (for reals) in January. We are only just making our comeback now – slowly but surely after selling property and the sheer luck of my man getting a job back in his trade after trying for months.
I like that we can say that because we always made good decisions before, during and will continue to after the recession’s effects are at their worst. We never squandered what we had or lived beyond our means. Our means just changed a little.
Some people annoy the eff out of me for using it as an excuse when some of us have been struggling for real!

By: lily

lily — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:13:58 +0000

DUDE. really? 60K in cc debt? WTF was she buying?
how is she gonna pay that off? two words: STREET WALKING.

By: Random Esquire

Random Esquire — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:56:16 +0000

It’s so hard, isn’t it? I can understand your situation. I hope my rant didn’t seem directed at you – the issue I took was that they wrote the story as if she woke up one day and thought, “Darn it, with this recession, I don’t think I’m gonna be able to pay off the $60,000. Darn that recession!”

I think that paying off credit card debt is a new rite of passage for many people. It’d hard a hell, isn’t it?

By: Chivahn

Chivahn — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:27:37 +0000

I have $10,000 worth of CC debt I doubt I’m ever going to be able to pay off. The cards are all in collections because I haven’t paid on any of them since August. I haven’t had the cash 22 and looking into Bankruptcy ftw.