Christian Radio Host Dave Ramsey Says You’re “Screwed Already” If Stimulus Check “Changes Your Life”

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February 11, 2021, 2:59 pm

Everybody who is looking forward to what will hopefully be at least a $1400 relief check in the next COVID-19 stimulus package is currently angry with Dave Ramsey, evangelical Christian radio host and “personal finance advisor.”

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This is because he went on Fox News and basically said that the poor should be left just as poor because they’re already poor.

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“Well, I don’t believe in a stimulus check because if $600 or $1400 changes your life, you were pretty much screwed already,” he said. “You got other issues going on. You have a career problem, you have a debt problem, you have a relationship problem, you have a mental health problem.”

Fox News guest Dave Ramsey: “I don’t believe in a stimulus check because if $600 or $1400 changes your life you were pretty much screwed already. You got other issues going on.” pic.twitter.com/6r1kTCxt8E

— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) February 11, 2021

Perhaps Ramsey is simply too rich to understand that $1400 can be used to pay down debt, buy supplies or equipment that can help with one’s career, or pay for a number of therapy appointments.

In all seriousness, Ramsey appears to be utilizing the old argument that if something doesn’t entirely solve the massive problem of poverty in the U.S., then we should just do nothing at all. Before calling the providing of relief checks “peeing on a forest fire,” he used an alternative approach to criticize the push to cancel student debt, which would go a lot farther for many to help their financial problems.

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In addition to saying that debt cancelation somehow wouldn’t help the economy, he claimed that it was merely a “political gimme by progressives trying to buy votes.”

Ramsey himself is yet another example of rich people failing upward and somehow getting to call themselves experts in something they seem to be really bad at.

After being born into a family of real estate developers, he had to declare bankruptcy in 1988 because he couldn’t pay back $1.2 million in loans and credit to banks when they came to collect. That same year, he founded a “financial counseling” service.

It wasn’t long before the clip from Fox News was on Twitter and people were dragging Ramsey up and down the platform.

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Main Street. The Average Joe. The Common Man. The Heartland. The Rust Belt.

Nope, Dave Ramsey and Fox News are totally not elitist and living in their own bubble and removed from the suffering of “ordinary Americans.” Their finger is on the pulse! https://t.co/xbX0wlOKpb

— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) February 11, 2021

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Dave Ramsey’s financial advice in a nutshell: already be rich

— terracotta pothead (@trachel420) February 11, 2021

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Here’s one way to save money… don’t give any of it to Dave Ramsey

— Ryan Wagner (@wagner_farms) February 11, 2021

To spite Dave Ramsey today I’m going to do something exorbitant like buy coffee or eat three meals.

— Alexandria Bontrager (@AllieBonBon) February 11, 2021

Honestly, I was kind of hoping for that $2000 stimulus so that I would be 1/5 of the way toward paying for a ticket to next year’s Dave Ramsey conference.

— Adam Morris (@adamwm89) February 11, 2021

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Ha…Dave Ramsey is trending…so that reminds me…

When I teach students about finance, I tell them they should learn everything they can about Dave Ramsey’s teachings and then do LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE.

— “What’s wrong with you?” “yes” (@Thats_Not_A_Hat) February 11, 2021

I’m sure Dave Ramsey understands the struggle of working-class people going through a pandemic.

It’s also pretty amusing that a millionaire who gives financial advice on a radio show paid for his house… in cash pic.twitter.com/rODLiMa6Ft

— Coping MAGA (@CopingMAGA) February 11, 2021

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*First Published: February 11, 2021, 2:59 pm