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In reply to the discussion: I May be Going to Debtor's Prison [View all]stupidicus
(2,570 posts)looking for vindication and validation under the shroud of "there's no justice for the poor", and likely got the idea from recent efforts in the news regarding those who've been sent to jail for contempt over not appearing where debt issues are involved. What an inventive genius.
I could of course be wrong, but then, that's his fault too for not making all the information available so as to end all the speculation. It's silly imo to believe that he wasn't aware of what would happen if he failed to satisfy the court, and if that meant sacrificing the long term goals of being a Ronco master, etc, (delusions of grandeur as an entrepeneur) and taking a minimum wage job and a half or so, then so be it.
As it stands, all he's been successful at with this effort, which, other than impregnating a woman, may be his only success, is pitting people against each other with a shit storm of the "Woe is me!" kind.
The statute of limitations at the fed level and in most states as I understand it, is 3 years. Even if he could make that case and reap the probative value of it, and see her in jail as a result, I don't see how that has any bearing on or would mitigate his guilt for non-payment.
I just gave the entire post a scan, but waht was most damning to me was provided by the TPer here, which was this
After I explain, I know how easy it will be to tell me I 'could have made better choices'. Believe me, I know that. But the choices I made at the time were reasonable choices. Many people have made many of the same choices I have made and managed to do well by them. So the choices I made were reasonable, but things just didn't work out. In retrospect, I could have done things differently of course, but I did not have the luxury of foresight at the time.
Of course many mighta made that choice, but I'd ask how many did so with his set of circumstances hanging over their head. What may have been reasonable for them since they had no Sword of Damocles hanging over their head this whiner either stupidly didn't fear, or chose to ignore, doesn't make his inaction on the matter while under the Sword reasonable. This is like saying that just because he had 10K to make a bet with as did the millionaire beside him at the crap table, that it was an equally reasonable bet for both of them. A lot of things seem reasonable when you ignore some of the relevant facts in a particular matter, like the unaffordability of the bets for him, he made.
and then the verdict/sword fell
boo hoo