Isn't this just damned special!

[rpannier]

While the Senate was passing it's Bankruptcy Reform Bill (ack and vomit) they were also voting against raising the minimum wage. Isn't that damned special!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[elehhhhna]

1. Read this! Lots of our Senators are overextended on their cards!

A Hill of credit-card debt
By Josephine Hearn
More than 40 members of the House reported carrying at least $10,000 in credit-card or charge-card debt in 2003 and parts of 2004, according to a survey of financial disclosure reports conducted by The Hill.

The findings come as the House is poised to take up a bankruptcy-reform measure that would give banks and credit card companies expanded powers to seek repayment from debtors who file bankruptcy.

Opponents of the bill drew hope from the data, suggesting that lawmakers who nurse high-interest debt might be more likely to sympathize with indebted consumers. High credit-card debt is often a factor in the decision to file for bankruptcy, although the root cause is usually related to a life-altering event such as a divorce, illness or the loss of a job, experts said.

"Members aren't that much different than regular Americans. Some run up high credit-card bills when they shouldn't. One would hope that it would make them more sensitive to regular Americans earning far less money that are threatened by this bill," said Travis Plunkett, legislative director at the Consumer Federation of America, which has opposed the bill on the grounds that it favors credit-card companies at the expense of average consumers.


http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/031005/creditcard.html

[Ian David]

2. They also breathe the same air and drink the same water that we do

That doesn't stop them from polluting.

So even though they share the same credit-card companies we do, why should this be any different?

[havocmom]

3. Maybe the same credit card companies as us, but I bet the rate varies!

And any of them foolish enough* to pay with plastic for any special little hobbies are probably very kind to those credit card companies!


*Yes, I do think it is likely some of them are THAT foolish

[paula777]

5. Ian WTF is going on with the two churches in your town?

Are those pictures for real? Do these churches really do this?

[lojasmo]

7. churchsigngenerator.com

www.churchsigngenerator.com/churchsigns.php



I just made this one.

[paula777]

8. Oh, okay - lol - I thought it was a real church fued.

[samiam1972]

6. Where on Earth

did you get those pictures? Is that real? That is AWFUL!!!

[Bzzzz]

4. And they voted...

themselves a raise!!!