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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Thread (3 Viewers)
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parasaurolophus
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the moops
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sho nuff
Footballguy
Always a good laugh when people go from democratic socialism to calling it communism.
You seem to want everyone to put her on a pedastal...but nobody here is...and really very few are at this point.
Ditkaless Wonders
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Ditkaless Wonders
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Ditkaless Wonders
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Ditkaless Wonders
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I have one in line with my toilet. It grinds down those growlers so they go down easy, no clogs, no plungers needed.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
I believe the argument is that while it is quite soft we do pronounce the "h" in "historic" and don't in "herbivore." As to that argument, I care so little you would think I was a Republican Congressman.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
And when you're done with the garbage disposal, you hit it with a sledgehammer and you can make dinner. Circle of life.
Franknbeans
Footballguy
this thread has taken a turd for the worst
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
not sure this will ever reach jumpy & quo status, or even pour salt in the womb for that matter, but always appreciate a solid pun attempt in the forearms
timschochet
Footballguy
Can we change the subject off of garbage for a moment?
AOC has teamed up with Bernie Sanders to unroll a new, large scale lending proposal today. Two main points:
1. Credit cards and paycheck companies will be limited to charging 15% as their maximum interest rate.
2. The US Post Office will start making low interest loans.
How do you guys feel about these ideas?
AOC has teamed up with Bernie Sanders to unroll a new, large scale lending proposal today. Two main points:
1. Credit cards and paycheck companies will be limited to charging 15% as their maximum interest rate.
2. The US Post Office will start making low interest loans.
How do you guys feel about these ideas?
John Blutarsky
Footballguy
They want the US Post Office to become a lending institution ? What type of drugs are they on?
timschochet
Footballguy
Apparently it used to do it, a century ago.
But I don't know why, if this is what they want, they don't simply propose establishing a national bank for personal low interest loans.
Sounds good. Doesn't affect me since I've never paid a dime in CC interest. The question I have is, do they charge these high rates just to 'steal' $ from the stupid or is it because it needs to be that high because of defaults? Can't imagine lowering it 10% will curtail defaults. May even exacerbate them.
timschochet
Footballguy
The argument that Bernie gave is that these lending institutions are borrowing their money at 2% and loaning it at 25-30%- so in other words the rich get richer and the poor are exploited. Now that's probably not the whole story and I'm betting that you're right, defaults probably do play a part. Still, I think there is some truth to his argument. And some truth to yours. The answer lies somewhere inbetween but I'm not sure where.
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
15% is too low for anyone with poor credit. It wouldn't save people money as much as restrict access to credit.
The post office idea has lots of problems but I'd rather discuss this interest rate cap.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
This is the topic of one of my all-time favorite papers. The gist of it is that if a CC-issuing bank lowers its interest rates, it attracts mainly consumers who are lousy credit risks, so nobody wants to lower their rates, so CC rates are disconnected from the cost of loanable funds. It's a special type of "adverse selection."
Edit: The adverse selection story is spelled out in layman-friendly terms starting on page 70.
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timschochet
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I imagine AOC and Bernie will attempt to force companies to loan at the lower rates. But I'm not sure. Obviously if you're right, it would make the situation even worse, as loan sharks would move in to fill the need, and who knows how much they would charge: 40%? 60%?
timschochet
Footballguy
It's certainly a good argument.
And yet- I don't think you can deny that Bernie and AOC are at the very least highlighting a problem- people are borrowing way too much at interest rates they can't afford, and there are vultures out there (I'm especially thinking of these paycheck companies) who are taking advantage. It's not good for poor people, and it's also not good for the rest of us. If AOC's solution to this problem is fairly predictable and problematic, (and I can see your point that it is), what should we do about it?
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
On an annual basis, loan sharks are going to be much higher than that. Average Payday Loan store APR is like 400%.
Mystery Achiever
Footballguy
As a couple of us said in a different thread, this is a great way to curtail access to the less credit-worthy. AOC and Bernie can't force banks to make loans to people when they don't believe they're adequately rewarded for the risk.
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
I think that mandating a cap on rates, while well intentioned, will have adverse and unexpected collateral consequences of reducing credit opportunities to the poor. Now credit opportunities are a trap and a cruel one at that for 99 folks out of 100, rich or poor, well educated or not, but credit is also a marvelous thing if used correctly and it will be withheld from some under this plan.
I do not believe government should compete with private industry.
I do not want to expand the roll of government employees. Is there an estimate of how many employees this would take.
I do not believe government should compete with private industry.
I do not want to expand the roll of government employees. Is there an estimate of how many employees this would take.
Juxtatarot
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A lot has changed since the 80s. This isn't the case now with credit pre-screened offers and other techniques to market to the "right" consumers.IvanKaramazov said:
Any good articles on this? Would love to read more about how CC issuers are targeting their consumers.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Sure, but I think the author's adverse selection story would still imply high and sticky interest rates even with advances in marketing.
Mainly though, the reason why I love that paper is because it identifies an industry that by all rights should be perfectly competitive -- a large number of producers and consumers, perfect information, essentially identical products, no barriers to entry -- but where price is nowhere near marginal cost. And it provides a pretty convincing explanation for a why a weird quirk of consumer behavior can account for that deviation. I enjoy stuff like that.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Half century. You could open a savings account at the usps in the 60s.timschochet said:
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Juxtatarot
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One of the first things to do is to separate discussions about credit card rates slightly above 15% APR and Payday lenders at 400% APR. They are entirely different discussions.timschochet said:
And people interested in the latter should check out Lisa Servon’s book to get a read on how complicated the issue is. Here’s a brief article about it and she’s done a bunch of interviews as well (on NPR, etc.).
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
Did you read the book? I assume there must be better examples in the book if you are giving it a reco. The examples in the article are ridiculous.
The first example is a guy that is paying cash to illegal workers. So sure, he is paying 97.50 to a check cashing place, but he is saving far more in taxes.
The second example doesn't even make any sense. She pays two dollars to cash a ten dollar check instead of using an ATM because the ATM wont give her less than 20 dollars and she doesn't have 20 dollars. And this happens to her on a regular basis??? What does she have a legal settlement that direct deposits 10 dollars in the bank every week?
Those don't sound like good examples to dispel "popular misconceptions".
I haven’t read the book. I’ve seen multiple interviews with her. She’s definitely worth listening to on the issue of why people use check-cashing services. People aren’t automatically stupid for choosing the least bad among the limited bad options available. Depriving people of an option usually isn’t helping them.
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parasaurolophus
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There is another thread on here discussing this and I know that same article was posted previously in it. I will try and find it because there were some other reports posted in there too that were kind of fascinating. IIRC the average payday loan receiver is a very repeat customer and is generally happy with the service. I found that odd. Don't quote me on that because perhaps I am mixing up check cashing service users.
ETA: Yep, I am correct. 2/3 use it more than 5 times a year and almost 50% use it more than 10 times a year and of the 395k complaints received by the CPFB only 1% of them involved payday loans and customer satisfaction ratings are usually really good.
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Juxtatarot
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That is absolutely true. My understanding is the customer service is pretty good with friendly employees too. (Perhaps unlike, say, the post office.)
Sand
Footballguy
Dead on. If this is actually a real policy (it isn't) then anyone with a credit score under 750 can forget getting a standard CC.
It's like AOC and Bernie deliberately misunderstand how these systems work. I'm kind of stunned that the deliberate ignorance is so blatantly bad. Who would believe this claptrap?
Low interest loans to whom? Are we going to get the Fannie/Freddie risk management personnel moved over to this department?timschochet said:
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jonessed
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It’s not like poor people not having access to money is some long buried secret suddenly getting some light. No one has solved it because It’s a hard problem to solve.timschochet said:
Trying to equip the post office to be a government subsidized payday lender facility is ridiculous.
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parasaurolophus
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I dont really understand the push for post offices as banks. Direct deposit and debit cards pretty much eliminate the need to cash a paycheck. Most employers want you to have direct deposit.
I think the number of people that are stuck in a "bank desert" that dont have the ability to get to a bank ever to get an account setup is very small.
According to this only 9% stated not having a bank near them was the reason.
Henry Ford
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Henry Ford
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Amazon rolls out job-replacing robots for its facilities. I do wonder how many jobs will be around in ten years from those promised when Amazon was hub searching.
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Today's lesson from our hero:
Growing cauliflower is 'colonial approach' to vegetables
by John Gage
May 20, 2019 12:05 PM
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., explained Sunday that a “core component” of her Green New Deal legislation is ending “colonial” attitudes that dominate community gardens.
“What I love too is growing plants that are culturally familiar to the community. It’s so important,” the freshman congresswoman said in an Instagram video while exploring a Bronx community garden.
“So that’s really how you do it right. That is such a core component of the Green New Deal is having all of these projects make sense in a cultural context, and it’s an area that we get the most pushback on because people say, ‘Why do you need to do that? That’s too hard,’” Ocasio-Cortez said in another Instagram video of her walking the streets of New York after leaving the community garden.
“But when you really think about it — when someone says that it’s ‘too hard’ to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I don’t know, cauliflower or something — what you’re doing is that you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism, and that is why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements because they come with the colonial lens on them,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Ocasio-Cortez said she was visiting the community garden to help form a connection from her own D.C. community garden and her Bronx district.
In February, she said that the fight for the Green New Deal was directly tied to justice in “indigenous communities.”
"There is no justice and there is no combating climate change without addressing what has happened to indigenous communities," Ocasio-Cortez said. "That means that there is no fixing our economy without addressing the racial wealth gap."
Ocasio-Cortez frequently updates her Instagram following on the growth of her plants in her D.C. community garden.
In April, she asked her Twitter following for gardening tips.
Growing cauliflower is 'colonial approach' to vegetables
by John Gage
May 20, 2019 12:05 PM
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., explained Sunday that a “core component” of her Green New Deal legislation is ending “colonial” attitudes that dominate community gardens.
“What I love too is growing plants that are culturally familiar to the community. It’s so important,” the freshman congresswoman said in an Instagram video while exploring a Bronx community garden.
“So that’s really how you do it right. That is such a core component of the Green New Deal is having all of these projects make sense in a cultural context, and it’s an area that we get the most pushback on because people say, ‘Why do you need to do that? That’s too hard,’” Ocasio-Cortez said in another Instagram video of her walking the streets of New York after leaving the community garden.
“But when you really think about it — when someone says that it’s ‘too hard’ to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I don’t know, cauliflower or something — what you’re doing is that you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism, and that is why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements because they come with the colonial lens on them,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Ocasio-Cortez said she was visiting the community garden to help form a connection from her own D.C. community garden and her Bronx district.
In February, she said that the fight for the Green New Deal was directly tied to justice in “indigenous communities.”
"There is no justice and there is no combating climate change without addressing what has happened to indigenous communities," Ocasio-Cortez said. "That means that there is no fixing our economy without addressing the racial wealth gap."
Ocasio-Cortez frequently updates her Instagram following on the growth of her plants in her D.C. community garden.
In April, she asked her Twitter following for gardening tips.
Mario Kart
Footballguy
This lady has done everything right. She is awesome and deserves recognition for it. What an awesome person/mind to have in our government.
GROOT
Footballguy
...She saved New York for gaining 75,000 jobs and prevented $30 billion of unnecessary tax revenues to her constituents.
timschochet
Footballguy
She’s been setting herself up as opposed to Biden’s candidacy, heavily criticizing him more and more. Actually that’s great for Biden. (In the long run not bad for AOC either.)
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah makes sense to me. Grow stuff people in the area know how to prepare and like to eat.
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