Consumer Protection Bureau Aims to Roll Back Rules for Payday Lending

Re:Consumer Protection Bureau Aims to Roll Back Rules for Pa... by rosser on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @06:48PM (#19101441)

Do I read you correctly as saying that the anecdotal evidence of the kinds of abuse you're concerned about (in the form of chain emails, &c) outweighs the actual, you know, "research" that has been done on these programs, their use, and their outcomes, and that there is instead some kind of systemic abuse by "pockets of underclass that grows up not knowing anything different"?

Because, yeah. We're just going to talk past each other here if so. Back to my deadline.

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Re:Consumer Protection Bureau Aims to Roll Back Rules for Pa... by SilasX on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @06:55PM (#19101488)

Where did I say I was grounding any of this in a chain email? I started out objecting to someone's over-the-top skepticism that anyone has every bought a luxury food on foodstamps.

Are you saying there aren't pockets of near-permanent poverty in America that depend on social spending? Nice, didn't know that was patched up.

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Re:Consumer Protection Bureau Aims to Roll Back Rules for Pa... by rosser on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @06:57PM (#19101517)

I guess I don't find referencing research in response to cultural tropes to be "over-the-top skepticism".

Have a good day.

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Re:Consumer Protection Bureau Aims to Roll Back Rules for Pa... by SilasX on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @07:44PM (#19101859)

Neither do I, which is why I never applied the appellation "over-the-top skepticism" to "referencing research"; it was applied to the commenter's ridicule of an account of someone buying a luxury food with foodstamps.

Is there a reason you thought my appellation was being applied to something else?

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