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2020-04-16 Economy
Poll: More Americans Fear COVID-19 Than Financial Harm
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-16 15:40|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Most people are already in financial harm and trying to ignore the fact, so this isn't surprising.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-16 15:56||   2020-04-16 15:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Did we not get flooded with polls that said most Americans live payday to payday and lacked any significant savings before the Kung Flu?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-16 16:14||   2020-04-16 16:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Tomorrow, tomorrow, I'll save some tomorrow...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-16 16:17||   2020-04-16 16:17|| Front Page Top

#4 You don't need to save for tomorrow, in fact there's no point since if you do government will take/inflate it away to give to those who don't.
Posted by Glenmore 2020-04-16 16:26||   2020-04-16 16:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Credit card bills come out next week.

Gonna get clobbered by the boredom buying, movie purchases, and easy fast food delivery.

Its all fun and games until the credit limit bursts.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-16 16:27||   2020-04-16 16:27|| Front Page Top

#6 And at a loan-shark APR of about 18%. What are US Fed rates now, like, 0-1%? Hmmmm.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-16 17:08||   2020-04-16 17:08|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ I retired* last September and first thing I did was pay off all cards

*Quarantine has convinced me to not stay retired
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-16 17:18||   2020-04-16 17:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Frank, you weren’t going to stay retired anyway. I was just waiting to see which project it was going to be. (I knew a man once who turned his hobby of breeding canaries into a small but successful pet shop supply business. My darling father-in-law went into business mowing lawns — he ran the mower, his friend did the edging and sweeping up, they both enjoyed the exercise in the fresh air and sunshine.)
Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-16 17:29||   2020-04-16 17:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, how often do you get to assist in constructing a Stadium?
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-16 17:36||   2020-04-16 17:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Only when the referendum passes on the sixth attempt, Frank.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-04-16 17:49||   2020-04-16 17:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Nahhhh. 1st time. My old Alma Mater
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-16 18:30||   2020-04-16 18:30|| Front Page Top

#12 That is but natural. The very basis of sentience is survival. Only an idiot would feel his full refrigerator or his magazine subscriptions are more important than his next breath.

The credit economy leeched away any circumspection people ever applied to their spending. The bug in some people's arse for a 'cashless society' further decreased the amount of paper and coin savings families made. One should always save cash, and convert to precious metals periodically.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-04-16 22:13||   2020-04-16 22:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Easy fast food delivery depended on good IT . I've found that the food delivery services are , out, not working , or very limited in supplies. At least in my Area.
Posted by Thaith Elmeresing6163 2020-04-16 23:11||   2020-04-16 23:11|| Front Page Top

#14 we grow our own peas plums lemons herbs apricots tomatoes strawberries lettuce...
Now if we had more land we could have a few sheep and cows
Posted by Lex 2020-04-16 23:19||   2020-04-16 23:19|| Front Page Top

#15 Lex - you wouldn't be Victor Davis Hanson, wouldja?

Yeah, I know - you couldn't tell me if you were.
Posted by Bobby 2020-04-16 23:29||   2020-04-16 23:29|| Front Page Top

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