Comments on: March 31 roundup

By: robert

robert — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:40:43 +0000

That “poverty trap” story was fascinating.

There’s going to be a very sad corollary to this: if Democrat’s proposals to means test Social Security and Medicare ever get anywhere, a frugal person who retires with several million may be worse off than some deadbeat who has saved nothing by retirement because they will receive no social security or medicare. (Compounded by the near 0 percent interest rates–the war on saving–that are used to keep deadbeats in their houses a little longer.)

It sucks from both ends….

By: John Rohan

John Rohan — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:08:00 +0000

So what was the McDonald’s settlement? The article is very unclear. It is called a “3 million dollar lawsuit” but doesn’t say what the settlement was. It just says the judge filed a dismissal on Feb 26. It also says the franchise is pleased with the decision, so I doubt they paid out $3 mil.

By: nevins

nevins — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:12:16 +0000

Regarding the nude photos at McD’s.
He’s more than happy for us to think of him as a dimwit who irresponsibly left nude photos of his wife at McDonalds.
But perhaps he is just a tad smarter than the other fast food shakedown artists. Leaving a finger in chili was a dumb move when you could just upload some pics of your wife, plant the phone at the restaurant, concoct a story whereby the store owner appears to accept responsibility for the phone, leave it in his possession for days rather than dash back immediately… brilliant; and he got away with it too.