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Idiot US Consumer For Dummies

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/14/2011 18:56 -0400

Take the previous post (average American = dumb as bag of hammers) add one USA-style credit card with an "accordion feature" ceiling, and you get this...

Source: theoatmeal.com, h/t Nolsgrad

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Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:02 | 1670830 X.inf.capt

so true

buy it now, so you work the rest of your LIFE paying the minimum payment on our cards.

SO WE CAN OWN YOU.........BITCHEZ

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:08 | 1670878 WestVillageIdiot

About two months ago I was at our local vet. Three of the women that worked there were standing around the front desk. I'm sure none of them makes very much money. The youngest was nice but didn't strike me as the sharpest knife in the butcher block. The oldest of the three, probably in her late 20s, was talking to the younger one about credit cards. She was telling her not to use them and wait until she had money to pay for things.

I was very impressed. Unfotunately, that is a rare occurrence. I am appalled at how many people I know in their late 40s and 50s that have nothing. They were counting on their houses to be their retirement and that isn't working so well. I guess they thought they could rip a few shingles off the roof and pay the electric bill.

I see that former presidential candidate Fred Thompson is now shilling for reverse mortgages. Way to go Fred. I guess he was qualified to be presidentl.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:11 | 1670897 tekhneek

Again...http://www.hulu.com/watch/1389/saturday-night-live-dont-buy-stuff

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:22 | 1670953 X.inf.capt

great stuff tek,

LOL

almost as good as MR BILL, and THE BASS-O-MATIC 1000

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 04:31 | 1672271 MarketTruth

REMEMBER THIS:

Lending Tree Commercial: I'm in debt up to my eyeballs...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0HX4a5P8eE

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 08:03 | 1672509 johnQpublic

family guy on debt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrdmw9Aac5Y&feature=related

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:23 | 1670963 WestVillageIdiot

Awesome video. I was showing that to everybody at work about 3 years ago. I think a few co-workers didn't understand why I was laughing. They, too, have no idea where that "saved" money can be found.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:55 | 1671096 boiltherich

I knew the level of intelligence I would be dealing with in this nation by the time I was 21, they elected Raygun twice, what more needs to be said about the quality of education in America? And you can chart the downward course of quality till it fell off the cliff with the election of BushCo in 2004 (2000 did not count since he was appointed by a GOP majority of the SCOTUS judges that time).

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:11 | 1671147 Fukushima Sam

The results of "political correctness", equal treatment of idiots (democracy), and lack of natural selection before breeding age in our modern society.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 22:48 | 1671647 trav7777

minor quibble: Busch won all counts. It was the fault of the Florida Courts that the SCOTUS had to intervene in the process.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 22:50 | 1671658 prains

George W 2000; "i can't find my keys"

Dicky C 2004; " I just diddled your kid and there's not a damn thing you can do about it"

Barry O 2008; " Oh shit"

Ricky Reagan 2012; "Whooooopeeeeee"

and the world churns

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:13 | 1671376 A Nanny Moose

priceless.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 22:50 | 1671656 Sokhmate

That commercial is too complicated for the average credit slave

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:24 | 1670969 dark pools of soros

look - if we want to ride with the windows down and the air conditioner on cause it feels good, we'll damn well do it!! It's about feeling good now, and the next minutes and the next.. if we ever go broke and no more credit we can always blow someone for meth

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:10 | 1671369 sullymandias

hmm, i think i can afford riding around with the air conditioner on and the windows rolled down...

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 22:45 | 1671638 prains

United Sates Of Amphetamine, United States Of Amphetamine.......ah, er sorry u s a, u s a

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 23:26 | 1671755 Amish Hacker

Give me Librium or give me meth...

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:19 | 1671172 brew

what the american people don't know, is what makes them the american people...

used the line before, but it is epic...

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:53 | 1671484 PC Load Letter

It's sad that people are now being forced to use credit cards just to survive. Flat to no wages, increasing cost of living and now a record number of people living in poverty. Consumerism is dying a slow death and survivalism is reemerging

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 00:17 | 1671904 CompassionateFascist

Evidently no one here is old enough to remember "Queen for a Day", that ultimate mid-1950s monument to live TV and American Consumerism. Several careworn, middle-aged ladies come out and are one-by-one interviewed about their disasterous lives - "my huband deserted me, kid run over by a train, recently diasgnosed w cancer" etc. - and the (live) audience APPLAUDS each godawful story and, as measured by an APPLAUSE METER a winner is declared. She then gets all sorts of good stuff, fur coat, washing machine, diamond earrings, etc.

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 05:29 | 1672316 Moe Howard

I barely remember I must have been about 6 or 7 years old when I saw it, I was born mid-fifties so maybe they repeated it. I didn't remember how they won, just that the poor old lady got a bunch of shit housewives wanted back then, as you said, washers, dead animal skins, diamonds. Weird stuff that.

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 13:48 | 1674048 hbjork1

I remember the title, "Queen for a Day". I just didn't have time to watch the boob tube. Didn't that have something to do with homosexuality?

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:11 | 1670896 InconvenientCou...

paying?

keep studying grasshopper.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:18 | 1670932 gmrpeabody

Too funny...

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:22 | 1670954 Id fight Gandhi

Exactly.run up the debt, go bankrupt. Get it discharged, rinse and repeat.

System still needs to sell shit on credit and will always lower the standards.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:59 | 1671328 Taint Boil

You mean like this:

http://patrick.net/forum/?p=25968

The Amerikan way

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:00 | 1670838 Misean

Pfffff...dude doesn't own any houses.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:03 | 1670855 knukles

Or stocks.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:11 | 1670892 X.inf.capt

or PM's

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:13 | 1670909 tekhneek

or guns

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:12 | 1671372 sullymandias

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:04 | 1670860 caerus

neither do most "homeowners"

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:10 | 1670886 WestVillageIdiot

Many of the people I know are owned by their houses. And they are all dying for me to join their club. I have been in that club. I don't miss it. When we move away from this city I am sure I will be able to rent a house for less than what it would cost to own. Plus, I will be able to tell the landlord to fix the fucking dishwasher when it breaks. Sweet.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:20 | 1670944 gmrpeabody

Keep this up and you'll have to change your last name.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:27 | 1670985 dark pools of soros

and whats stopping him from just ripping the dishwasher out and saying, what fucking dishwasher?? your wife?

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:46 | 1671063 WestVillageIdiot

And as a renter I say, "fuck you" and move on. I am not a slave. I am a renter. You don't like me as a tenant somebody else will. We are the tenants every landlord wants.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:57 | 1671106 toady

If you complain about a broken dishwasher, or even a fucking light bulb, your not.

On the other hand, that's what property managers are for...

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:29 | 1671204 WestVillageIdiot

Who would try to fix a dishwasher as a renter? That is silly. We keep our place spotless. We treat the place like we own it. But I'm not fixing the fucking appliances. Oh yeah, and we have never, not even once, been late with rent.

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 09:47 | 1673010 Rentier

Good renter then...

Renters a dime dozen now and have to fight it out for my properties. Listed one just last month and had 12 people call in the first two hours it was listed. I don't do slum though all my rentals are upscale (SS appliances etc.) and not in rent controlled areas. Bad thing for you though village is you'll still be paying rent to someone else rest of your life. Renter's rent pay my property taxes and utilites so I live free on their 9 to 5 lives. I can pack up and move when ever I want to, I wouldn't want or need to sell my house it would just be another rental.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:54 | 1671310 FeralSerf

You must enjoy moving. Personally I'd rather have a root canal than have to move.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:13 | 1671153 Yes_Questions

He said he was LEAVING NY...

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:11 | 1670891 Shameful

To my knowledge no one in the US owns their home. They may not have a mortgage but they pay their rent for the land to the local despot (Gov) or the home is taken. If you have to make payments from here to eternity or someone comes and takes possession of something, then you don't own it.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:18 | 1670937 caerus

sort of a de facto serfdom

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:26 | 1670978 WestVillageIdiot

When my wife wants to get this message across to me she uses my testicles to illustrate her point. It is a very poignant lesson.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:26 | 1670979 Mr Lennon Hendrix

Sort of?

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:51 | 1671482 nmewn

+ a 44.68 ratio ;-)

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:21 | 1670947 seek

There are a rare few lifetime allodial titles in Nevada, there may be others.

But even those are only for the life of the owner, and not eternal. IIRC there were some ranches in AZ that have grandfathered allodial titles when AZ was part of mexico.

So virtually no one owns their home, but there's a tiny, tiny segment that do.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:28 | 1670988 Sir Real

I agree. I usually say it is a "lease with the option to sell". Once I sell this anchor in five years, renting will be my preferred option.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 22:19 | 1671571 Axenolith

'Cept Nevada and Texas have Alloidial Title, not sure how it works in TX, but you pay a fee in NV (that's pretty reasonable) and there are no taxes on the prop until the last continuous dwelling/owning person on the title dies...

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 23:10 | 1671713 Mad Marv

I have been saying this for years, and people look at me like I'm stupid. Amazing how much we have given up. Hunting season coming up shortly, and I have to pay a government agency for the privilege of killing bambi on my own property. I keep telling my family, we are not much better off than the serfs of the middle ages in Europe.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 23:46 | 1671824 woolly mammoth

Shameful, I believe the first $75,000 in home valuation in Louisiana is tax exempt. So if your home is less then that then no taxes.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 22:42 | 1671628 Oh regional Indian

Precisely. Traffricant said it and went to aoil on racketeering charges for it.

Did he come out brainwashed? Or still fiesty?

ORI

Trafficante and Pike Said it

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:02 | 1670846 mfoste1

wow i just laughed my ass off, sad but this is true....i knew a family of 3 drivers that had 5 cars. yes 5 car payments a month, but the poor kids werent allowed to have their computers on past 9pm to save money on electricity. fucking sad......

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:12 | 1670898 WestVillageIdiot

Was mom allowed to use "the tooth chipper" after 9 pm?

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 23:19 | 1671742 mfoste1

lol whats a tooth chipper?

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 08:18 | 1672556 johnQpublic

an enforcer type, or a really bad blow job

could be either in this context

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:02 | 1670850 knukles

Hey, I was just reading that book, Consumerism for Dummies!

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:02 | 1670851 zorba THE GREEK

Here comes the repo man.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:02 | 1670853 SumSUN

But, everyone is fancy, successful small business owners in the banking commercials....

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:05 | 1670866 dwdollar

LOL... so true.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:13 | 1670910 WestVillageIdiot

How many fucking cupcake shops does the world need? Seriously. Every third block now there is either a cupcake store or a cupcake truck. And I think they all have the new Chase Sapphire credit card.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:15 | 1670920 caerus

i have been bitching about this for a while now...i wish i could short cupcakes

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:31 | 1670997 zorba THE GREEK

How about edible arrangements? Who would want to receive that.

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 08:20 | 1672563 johnQpublic

day old fruit ....my favorite

hope they were wearing rubber gloves when they made it

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:32 | 1671005 WestVillageIdiot

And how many cupcake shows can they have on Food Network? "Cupcake Wars". Give me a fucking break. I want to see "Cleaver Wars". I want to see Paula Dean and Rachel Ray hacking fucking body parts off of each other. Then Bobby Flay can come in and slice Guy Fieri, and his hipster bullshit, into fillets and chops and throw him on the grill. Now that would be entertaining. Cupcake Wars? Fuck off. What a stupid country. We watch shows about people making cupcakes.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:46 | 1671060 crazyjsmith

Classic. "We watch shows about people making cupcakes" Purty much sums it up for us here.

But... But...But...these are designer cupcakes.

As you said, Fuck Off to you and your designer cupcakes, and go hang out with the fat asses in line for Krispy Kremes and Cinna-Buns.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:05 | 1671075 caerus

it's like the house flipping shows before the housing bust...we're in a cheap food bubble methinks

my favorites are the "lets see how much we can fuckin eat" shows

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:31 | 1671429 pods

I love that job title, professional eater.

WTF?

They interview them and ask them how they have "trained" for the event and everything.

Congrats on being the biggest fucking glutton in the county. Hey, did you ever see the movie "7"?

pods

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:26 | 1671192 Seer

"What a stupid country. We watch shows about people making cupcakes."

I don't own a TV, hence have never heard of this cupcake thing... A WIN WIN for me- save money by NOT subjecting myself to this [TV] shit! :-)

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 23:54 | 1671847 Socratic Dog

Yeah. What's a fucking cupcake? I have no idea.

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 08:24 | 1672582 johnQpublic

like the 'kim kaption' contest the other day

i had to read every fucking post to figure out who the hell she was

thought she was that shitty rapper ben affleck was boffing a few years back

jennifer lopez...wouldnt know who she was either if i didnt watch south park on occasion...on netflix

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 23:12 | 1671721 Mad Marv

I'd settle for 'Cleavage Wars'. Who gives a shit what the theme is.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 23:33 | 1671784 Freebird

But WVI out of interest are you talking regular cupcakes or those cute mini sized, one bite little beauties?

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 02:31 | 1672129 Troublehoff

funny bastard!

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:37 | 1671026 jerry_theking_lawler

what's next, muffin tops...oh, that one's already been taken too...

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:15 | 1671159 krispkritter

Muffin bottoms? Oh, yeah, that's what the people have who eat all the tops...and the cupcakes...and the cakes...ad nauseaum...

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:33 | 1671435 pods

Someone here has that back boob avatar. Scary. Keep thinking "Where are the nipples?"

pods

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 22:59 | 1671691 Sokhmate

I'd watch any show with exposed muffs.. the variety is staggering and could run for seasons upon seasons. I'd pass on muffins.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:43 | 1671048 JohnG

And manicure/pedicure shops. I've seen them two in the same stip mall. Convinced they are money laundering fronts.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:29 | 1671202 Blano

Beat me to it.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 23:56 | 1671849 saulysw

Cupcakes? But you can't eat ... oh, wait. Go Long cupcakes!!

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:03 | 1670854 Hot Cumontitties

I don't know whether to laugh or cry... X'D

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:16 | 1670925 WestVillageIdiot

Are you directly supporting one of these credit junkies? If not, then you can laugh.

It is frightening how many responsible people I know that continue to enable their kids to live this sort of life. I know of several people directly that will have their retirements either ruined, or delayed, because they can't cut off their dipshit offspring. I have no sympathy.

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 08:28 | 1672595 johnQpublic

my neighbor has a 4 and a 7 year old....each with a smartphone...with apps

fucking why?

when i asked he was dumbfounded, like what a stupid question...of course a child needs a hundred buck a month phone

when i was seven i couldnt even reach the wall mounted rotary phone ...so i went outside

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:03 | 1670857 MsCreant

Uncle Willard made his point very well.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:14 | 1671158 RockyRacoon

Hey, Missy. I sure hope the level of intellectual endeavor in the past 2 articles is not a precursor of the direction ZH is going. Is it just me, or is it stupid in here.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 23:26 | 1671759 mtomato2

Relax, my faithful friends. I suspect the Tys are just shaking things up a little bit. You know you love it.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:04 | 1670861 Let them eat iPads

Jeez, almost as creepy as Sexual Harassment Panda.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:05 | 1670864 11b40

Take a little test....from PEW Research. Not that I think any of you Hedgers would fail, but the overall results are a little scary.

Perhaps we need to bring back voter eligibility tests.

Test your news IQ - Pew Research Center

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:10 | 1670887 Silver Pullet

I only got 8, but not too bad for a Canadian I suppose...

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:27 | 1670984 Melin

I missed the one on coal. Other than that, I'm a brainiac.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:11 | 1670894 Stumpy

You scored better than 79% of the public. And I'm not an American.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:11 | 1670895 Stumpy

Edit: mouse self double-clicked. Bitch.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:15 | 1670918 CrazyCooter

Um, IQ is completely mis-stated. It should read "knowledge of current events". My score ...

"You correctly answered 11 out of the 11 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 98% of the general public."

The 11 questions were very, very easy *if* you pay attention to current events/politics/economy. Here was the curve (typed it up real quick):

2 - none right
4 - 1 right
7 - 2 right
9 - 3 right
12 - 4 right
11 - 5 right
11 - 6 right
11 - 7 right
12 - 8 right
12 - 9 right
7 - 10 right
2 - 11 right

So, I take this to mean that 50% of the public doesn't have a basic clue what is going on around them given the questions were so basic.

Pretty much sums up why we are in this shit pot to begin with!

Regards,

Cooter

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:22 | 1670957 ImnotPOTUS

No one likes a smart arse..........

I got eleven also.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:49 | 1671291 RobD

I got 11 also, though I used the process of elimination on the facebook question.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:15 | 1671383 wisefool

Got 'em all right excepot for interest on the national debt vs. medicare. I chose interest on the debt.

In keysian economics, we are all dead in the long run, so there is a limit to how much money could be spent to keep any and all of us alive.

But as Einstien pointed out compound interest is the most powerful force int he universe, and the ammortizatized interest on the debt of the US government is incalcuable.

Maybe thats why Einstien said the hardest thing in the world to figure out is the personal income tax. I would love to see keynes and Einstien have a discussion, on anything.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:36 | 1671444 hidingfromhelis

Same result here; I think we're just a little bit ahead of reality, but I doubt it's very far ahead!

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 00:25 | 1671921 CompassionateFascist

Freud an Einstein once had a discussion on "why war?". Puerile.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 22:16 | 1671564 mkkby

It says, "test your NEWS IQ". That should have been a dead giveaway. Sorry about your low SAT score ;)

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 05:37 | 1672326 Moe Howard

I got three questions at the end wrong, my age, sex, and education. I keep forgetting stuff. I got all the other ones right.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:26 | 1670942 nmewn

Edit: Is it too late for me to change my score? ;-)

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:30 | 1670993 gmrpeabody

11..., their counter thingy must be broken.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:35 | 1671018 nmewn

I think I answered incorrectly on the Hillary! question...I still don't want to believe it ;-)

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:49 | 1671282 Dr. Acula

Me too.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:08 | 1671363 nmewn

I don't remember which one exactly...it was a passing flight of fancy here, maybe coal instead of nuclear.

But to think, Hillary! is meeting with heads of state...discussing/participating in/making foreign policy should send shudders down everyones spine...except foreigners of course ;-)

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:21 | 1670950 WestVillageIdiot

That quiz was fun but a little messed up. I did like the question about unemployment where they had to state, "as reported by the government".

Some of the questions were trick questions. First off, Gadaffi, is not a leader. Second off there was no "cunt" as a possible answer for what Hillary Clinton is. And for the Wisconsin question there was no answer that stated, "whining like a bunch of bitches because the government was trying to take away the shit they rightfully got by bribing politicians".

I changed my answer on two questions and those were the 2 I got wrong. Fucking fat Americans and Medicare patients cost me a perfect score.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:33 | 1671007 gmrpeabody

I suppose anyone who new that Gadhafi was no longer in charge of Libya missed one, but should have gotten extra credit.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:48 | 1671068 JohnG

Yeah.....

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:16 | 1671162 Rodent Freikorps

The fat question got me too.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:27 | 1670987 caerus

11...but the first question was:

moammar gadhafi is leader of which of these countries?

libya

egypt

saudi arabia

china

so i'm calling foul

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:34 | 1671015 gmrpeabody

We were smart enough to give them the answer we figured they wanted to hear.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:36 | 1671021 SumSUN

Politicians don't lead countries. Bankers and the corporations they fund do.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:56 | 1671046 Raphio

3.... but I'm an obese unemployed Republican

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:47 | 1671285 nmewn

LOL!!!...change party's, talk to DOE and go into solar panels...it won't do anything for your waistline, but what the hell ;-)

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:44 | 1671047 zero_cool

11. Ironic that the hardest question asked (according to the correct response percentages) was: On which of these activities does the U.S. government currently spend the most money?

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:45 | 1671059 Bobbyrib

I guessed that one correctly, because the Repubs keep complaining about entitlement spending.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:44 | 1671052 Bobbyrib

11/11. I admit, I took an educated guess on a few.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:22 | 1671181 krispkritter

"-6" WTF? ooooh, DWTS is on! (11)

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:33 | 1671223 Blano

I got all 11, but WTF the first question is who is the leader of Libya and the correct answer is Gaddafi?? Glad to see Pew keeps up with current events too.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:37 | 1671448 pods

Was there an answer for whoever is head of the rebels new central bank?

pods

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 22:08 | 1671537 tip e. canoe

or who were the "local traders" who bought the $1.6 B worth of gold from the moQ?

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 22:02 | 1671511 TreadwCare

11/11, a couple I paused and considered.

Only 2% of respondents, or, per Pew, "the public" could answer all 11 correctly? REALLY? Lord, help us all. Even the dumb ones.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 23:13 | 1671722 Dr. Gonzo

Question 6 is a trick question. Should read 25% are MORBIDLY obese.

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 07:11 | 1672414 Are you kidding

Here's Your Score: You correctly answered 11 out of the 11 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 98% of the general public.

What do I win?

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:06 | 1670868 Mr.Sono

i used my chase credit card to buy more silver. is that to much?

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:11 | 1670901 Cult of Criminality

That kinda like "hope and change"?

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:16 | 1670923 TwelfthVulture

When the invoice hits settlements, they'll collateralize it and credit it against their short position at COMEX.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:06 | 1670869 yabyum

Now if Uncle Willard had bought pm's, on those credit cards;)

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:07 | 1670872 Medea

Can someone please put this Tyler to bed for the night? Thank you.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:26 | 1670877 Zero Govt

A Go-Get guy in my area code expanded his restaurant, pub and club empire on finance, bought his house on mortgage and financed all his purchases (fast cars and boats etc) on credit (debt). He was recently foreclosed on by the banks/creditors when 'The Credit Crunch' hit.

Not surprisingly his name is not worth much in my parts anymore as people close ranks against bankrupts... but in my view this Go-Getter guy was the absolute 'Poster Child' of the very lifestyle the Banks (and politicians) themselves wanted to promote for everyone in society. When the (banks own) shit hit the fan suddenly we are to make their own human robot creations into the enemy, but not the Banks who created this wonderland of debt slaves, credit card zombies and credit-stretched businessmen

The bankers are now worthy of taxpayer funding to prop up their rotten bankrupt over-leveraged (hysterical) business models but somehow businessmen and consumers are not. Politicians have taken sides and the bankers who have created this mess are getting their sympathy while everyone else has to pull their fingers out and prop-up these bwanksters ...charming!

My how we invert and pervert the truth and turn in on our own rather than at the core of the problem ....it's about time the banksters went fuking bust in my book. It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of lying greedy thieves ...and sooo blameless too for this international bloodbath of society

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:39 | 1671027 Temporalist

But...it wasn't apparent to that person that they were living beyond their means? That is like saying someone with 17 credit cards doesn't get it either. Same result just different avenues.

I realize they were "allowed" to do it but their own motivations drove them to do it.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:49 | 1671061 Zero Govt

I'm not saying an over-stretched businessman or consumer is blameless ...just that they are the poster children of the Debt-Slave Theme Park the bwanksters and politicos wanted to create for society

And I also find it somewhat ironic we turn in on ourselves as a society... this Go-Getter had a chain in another country that went bankrupt. He paid all his bills to suppliers and staff, the only outstanding debts were to the local and national Govt in unpaid taxes and insurance etc. Made me chuckle that. But the Press turned on him in good establishment stylee like he was some charlatan when in fact he was the Poster Child of the real charlatans, the bankers and politicians

He could still be in business today doing a very good job of serving happy customers were it not for the bankers own House of Credit Cards collapsing around their arses

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:49 | 1671069 Bobbyrib

Our politicians "updated" the Bankruptcy laws right before the credit bubble blew up.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:19 | 1671101 Zero Govt

Yes indeed, yet more irony... because this Go Getter is now banned from Directorships in a certain foriegn country while the bankers have been bailed out in said foreign country with not a single one of their arses banned in any capacity

So it is fact that leaving a five-six figure unpaid tax bill to the State is cause for legislative wrath and Judicial vengence while pissing billions down a toilet as a national bwankster is a blameless event worthy of political sympathy and propping up your bankrupt bank

Meanwhile in the UK the FSC has made all bwanksters blameless for a £Trillion of debts with 'surprise surprise' not a single bwankster taken to court or banned as Directors ....great stuff this isn't it? ...really I doubt anyone could write fiction as idiotiic as this shit if they tried!

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:09 | 1670881 Raymond Reason

My fellow Americans (not all, but a large percentage) are the most arrogant (i should say narcissistic, becuase it's ungrounded arrogance), disrespectful, misinformed, and decedant people on the planet. Not only that, they're dumb and sick. There will be hell to pay here.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:13 | 1670911 MalthusWasRight

While we may be arrogant, disrespectful narcissists, I am relatively sure that the large majority of Americans are alive.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:24 | 1670967 Argonaught

Ha! No one is even junking you because they can't figure out that you are a spelling/grammar nazi. Well played!

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:32 | 1671215 krispkritter

Er, decedent...

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:44 | 1671462 MalthusWasRight

The only way to insult people is to make them work to figure it out. I didn't even mention how his usage of "my fellow Americans" implies that the OP is a member of the very same group he chastises.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 23:07 | 1671665 Raymond Reason

Yes you snooty pompous ass... I exactly meant to imply that i am of the same group. It's called self deprecation, dipshit. Not something i suspect you've tried much.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:15 | 1670919 Let them eat iPads

Pretty fucking fat as well.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:19 | 1670941 Raymond Reason

Hard to imagine laying your life down to defend this place.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:16 | 1671391 nmewn

Hard to imagine laying down your life to defend some of the worthless people in this place.

Fixed it...first time is free ;-)

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:46 | 1671470 MalthusWasRight

The dumb, misinformed Americans are just owning Raymond Reason in this thread.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 21:57 | 1671501 nmewn

I'm an underdog sentimentalist...I really can't help myself ;-)

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 22:34 | 1671586 mkkby

"Hard to imagine laying your life down to defend this place."

When has anyone done that?

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:46 | 1671065 jdelano

No he'll to pay. The arbiter of divine justice used to work at goldman.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:32 | 1671217 darteaus

Still better than being a PIIG.

Wed, 09/14/2011 - 19:12 | 1670882 Cult of Criminality

Funny rofl Tyler

Idiot US Consumer For Dummies

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