Economic Illiteracy 341 is a graduate level course in economic illiteracy. Prerequisites to enrollment: students must have completed economic illiteracy 101 and taken at least three electives that confound, confuse, and misunderstand the basics of math, finance, and economic theory.
Either that, or just wear an Obama t-shirt to class. Your call.
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The stupid is willful with ^^^this one. ^^^
I am never again ask for a raise, I just want the firm to write me a bigger check. It wont mean that they are paying me more.
And yet somehow when we reach that limit, for 4 months, the debt stays exactly the same. So I guess it will still stay the same even after the limit is raised, for the first time evuh!
Yes, the debt is inevitably increasing at some uncontrolled (and largely disregarded) rate. What reasonable person could possibly want to put the brakes on that?
Answer: Fucking redneck Teabaggers, that’s who.
“I just want the firm to write me a bigger check.”
Like one of those they give you when you win a contest?
Real PITA to cash those, I bet. You can’t fit them in the ATM, for starters.
Hey, my bank will let me send them a picture of the front of the check to deposit it, so maybe there’s hope.