Definitions by Joe Rodolico
credit card slave
Freya didn't really understand how credit card interest rates work, and ran up large debts during her college days. Now, she is a credit card slave; because most of her salary goes into paying them off.
credit card slave by Joe Rodolico January 26, 2007
credit card coolie
Low income individuals can be quite optimistic about the future when using plastic instead of cash to make purchases. But if, for some reason, they suffer a financial setback, that little piece of plastic may turn them into credit card coolies.
credit card coolie by Joe Rodolico January 26, 2007
schifoso
That schifoso would sell anything to anybody, including his own mother, if someone made him an offer.
schifoso by Joe Rodolico November 14, 2006
two-thousandaire
A member of America's class of home-owning families with only two thousand dollars in savings. Deeply in debt, they live from paycheck to paycheck dreading any unforseen financial catastrophies such as a sudden illness or unemployment. First coined by Karen De Coster and Eric Englund.
Taking out a home equity loan might seem like a good idea to a two-thousandaire, unless one gets laid off and ends up penniless.
two-thousandaire by Joe Rodolico July 1, 2006
corporados
Overpaid officers of wealthy corporations who use political sway with elected representatives to promote policies perceived as detrimental to the public good. Combination or “corporate” and “ados” Spanish suffix for people who act in a certain manner.
Pension plans are being pared back drastically by the same corporados who squandered billions of the stockholders money, but not before paying themselves huge bonuses.
corporados by Joe Rodolico June 12, 2006