Life in 2009
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tarnok
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Re: Life in 2009
Yes. Also if you get evicted you have about ten days to get your stuff out before the landlord disposes of it.
Johnny
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Johnny
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Re: Life in 2009
"You didn't pay your bill so now I'm selling your stuff" seems a bit unfair.
No he should tell you that you have X ammount of days to pick up your **** or he's throwing it in the dumpster. After 30 days he should throw it.
"You didn't pay your bill so now I'm selling your stuff" seems a bit unfair.
Tanooki
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Re: Life in 2009
Why are we even discussing this? If auctioning was their policy, it would have been clearly stated in the contract. If that family signed up and stored things, they should have emptied the storage unit when they couldn't pay.
Perhaps there are storage companies that do send your bill to a collection agency or simply throw away your things, but apparently it's legal to also auction it.
Is anyone else, besides me, actually using a storage facility to store things? If so, do you know what happens when you stop paying? Did you ask?
The storage facility isn't your mom. They don't have to keep your room exactly as you left it once you can no longer pay.
Why are we even discussing this? If auctioning was their policy, it would have been clearly stated in the contract. If that family signed up and stored things, they should have emptied the storage unit when they couldn't pay.
Perhaps there are storage companies that do send your bill to a collection agency or simply throw away your things, but apparently it's legal to also auction it.
Is anyone else, besides me, actually using a storage facility to store things? If so, do you know what happens when you stop paying? Did you ask?
The storage facility isn't your mom. They don't have to keep your room exactly as you left it once you can no longer pay.
Amra
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Re: Life in 2009
Now I know it's all the rage to pile on the "rich" and the "evil corporations". I guess it makes people feel better. Certainly politicians think it will get them votes if they appear outraged. But let us all keep the larger picture in mind. If you move the goal posts in the middle of the game, you can expect chaos to be the result.
If at a later date you wish to change how bonuses are handled (and rightly so imho) then so be it. But to whine about it now is silly.
In the same vien, to quote Barney Frank:
Syxx, why is that "bad"? Contracts should not be obligated?
Now I know it's all the rage to pile on the "rich" and the "evil corporations". I guess it makes people feel better. Certainly politicians think it will get them votes if they appear outraged. But let us all keep the larger picture in mind. If you move the goal posts in the middle of the game, you can expect chaos to be the result.
If at a later date you wish to change how bonuses are handled (and rightly so imho) then so be it. But to whine about it now is silly.
In the same vien, to quote Barney Frank:
Agreed. Messers Frank and the others who opposed regulations of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac should be held accountable and lose their bonuses. Voted out of office as well. Why should we reward his failure?
Amra
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Re: Life in 2009
It's not a "United States" thing. It's a contract between two parties. It has nothing to do with the country.
Johnny
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Re: Life in 2009
I mean when it comes to unpaid bills. Seems over there if you get a parking ticket you can actually get away with not paying it as not as your car doesn't get towed. Over here you get a bill in your mailbox and if you fail to pay that it goes to reclamation. If you fail to pay then it goes to the government reclamation that sends people to your house to collect goods in equal value to your debt. But in the case listed above it seems they just nick your stuff and things end there. Over here you would not get away that easy.
jmervyn
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Re: Life in 2009
Because the vile piece of filth in question keeps getting reelected by the mentally deficient citizens of Massachusetts.
Re: Life in 2009
The idea of a bonus is to reward a person for a job well done.
How can this be the case with AIG executives, unless you consider the largest loss ever made by a company to be a good thing.
Is the point you trying to make, that since the executives had bonus contracts, they should be honoured regardless of the actual job performance ? Maybe from a purely legal point of view you are correct, but from a common sence point of view it is an absolute rip-off especially when considering the money used to pay the bonus's comes from a tax payer bailout.
The thing I don't understand is how come the bonus contracts weren't linked to actually performing well (ie like making x zillions of dollars in profit) ?
The paying of a bonus for failure is just plain wrong. This is why is it "bad".
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Syxx
Hi Amra,
The idea of a bonus is to reward a person for a job well done.
How can this be the case with AIG executives, unless you consider the largest loss ever made by a company to be a good thing.
Is the point you trying to make, that since the executives had bonus contracts, they should be honoured regardless of the actual job performance ? Maybe from a purely legal point of view you are correct, but from a common sence point of view it is an absolute rip-off especially when considering the money used to pay the bonus's comes from a tax payer bailout.
The thing I don't understand is how come the bonus contracts weren't linked to actually performing well (ie like making x zillions of dollars in profit) ?
The paying of a bonus for failure is just plain wrong. This is why is it "bad".
Regards
Syxx
Re: Life in 2009
As for the part in the article about the guy digging through the dumpster, this reminded of me of how all these Americans are complaining about losing 'their' homes. Is it really YOUR house if you used someone else's 200k to pay for it? Jeeze, Americans think they are born with a set of house keys in their curled fists.
As for the part in the article about the guy digging through the dumpster, this reminded of me of how all these Americans are complaining about losing 'their' homes. Is it really YOUR house if you used someone else's 200k to pay for it? Jeeze, Americans think they are born with a set of house keys in their curled fists.
Johnny
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Re: Life in 2009
The goal posts where moved when the company decided that they can no longer handle the cold hard justice of the market and started begging uncle Sam for money. They got their money but now their asses belong to uncle Sam.