No real need to state it, but yeah, our economy is shit right now.  The cost of petrol is making me and a lot folks I know become home bodies (I’m predicting gas riots this summer).  So we’re forced to sit at home during the summer and over analyze America’s Best Dance Crew.  To add to the these strains and unemployment being so high, I can’t even get a damn tomato in my burger cause of salmonella.  These are the times where poor folks and broke graduate students such as myself are forced to hustle and acquire money by any means possible.

Sonny told Calogero in A Bronx Tale that the working man is a sucker.  But it ain’t the working man’s fault that capitalist vultures prey on their few dollars and cents by leaving working people with few options in the community.  Example: cash advance and check cashing spots.  Thankfully, I have never resorted to using either, but I was close to hitting up a Payday Loan Advance cause my wallet was getting anorexic.  I exited the door after seeing the ridiculous interest rates they were charging.

As for the Check Into Cash locations, the folks that gave us the Ghetto Big Mac and also revealed the mysticism surrounding bodegas provide an investigative look into this phenomenom.

A few weeks late posting this video, but will continue to be relevant.  Rafi and Dallas, otherwise known collectively as the Internets Celebrities, present us with “Checkmate”:

Rafi and Dallas >>> Michael Moore

Extra: The ICs interviewed on the Brian Lehrer Show at CUNY.

-Ninoy Brown

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