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One of the few bits of good advice my old man ever gave me was "anyone who thinks the government will give them a decent pension is an idiot. It's on you, and the sooner you start saving, the better." The only other pearls of wisdom he gave me were "don't drink on an empty stomach" and "stay away from women with fat ankles."
Or if he had made even the slightest effort to get along with his fellow band members, perhaps he'd be in a real local band, that gets real local gigs. But he's not interested in being in a band, he just likes to showboat and hog the spotlight, and pretend he's the star attraction.
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His 2U band had a good run, they could have kept up forever. One gig per week, a few festivals, disney shows, casinos and he could have had a steady income for the past 20 years. Of course Joe had to fuck it up by "running" the business and stiffing his bandmates whenever he could. I would like to see his old bandmates get together and do this without him.
It really is funny how the Cumia brothers portray themselves as model citizens but have contributed 0 to society. Ignoring their crack smoking, they’ll complain about taxes when it’s Obama or Biden time but wtf are they being taxed on? Ant at least made some money between 2008-2016, but Joe was facing 50% capital gains taxes from his little bros hand outs? Being paid in cash after every gig? (No doubt unreported to the IRS). Between the both of them they’ve never paid a cent into social security. They are legitimate bum fucking leeches who love to LARP as responsible tax paying white people when they need to invent why DEMONcrats are ruining their lives.
That’s what’s so annoying about Joe LARPing as some hard working conservative and crying the LIBTARDS are the lazy ones living off handouts while he’s been living off his brother and doing stupid “gigs” and acting like he’s above others. I’m glad he’s close to 70 and his brothers best earning days are long over and that handout is getting smaller / running out. Good thing he blew all Ants allowance on dumb shit and gambling in AC!
All the years he was taking cash out of the guitar case and not paying taxes and "cheating the man". Now he has arrived at 65 with no pension, no health care, no social security, no dental, no savings and no 401k. He is going to have to busk for change until the day he keels over into his guitar case. I hope the local kids push his bloated corpse to the side to steal all his quarters before they call 911.
It was basically a military operation.
Crazy thing is for people Joe's age and older, American Social Security is actually lucrative. It's obviously not going to be for future generations though
Didn't one of the band members actually threaten to kill Joe?
The bono guy who had good industry contacts from his days with the good rats. Felix P I think his name was.Didn't one of the band members actually threaten to kill Joe?