It's the system's fault for not teaching them the necessary math skills.S.Lythberg wrote:
ThisSkorpy-chan wrote:
No, but I know basic addition, multiplication, and economic theory, and that you shouldn't take out payments higher than your monthly income.
That's already better than most of the people in the financial crisis.
People making $40,000 a year took out $700,000 mortgages, and now they're homeless. A fifth grader could have done that math...
Americans were living beyond their means, and they paid the price, I don't see why we're so stunned.
I only feel for the honest people who saw their home values plummet as a result, they're the victims here, not the foreclosed
I'm going to have my Congressman introduce a $500B education bailout spending bill to fix it.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular