Posted by
txrose on Friday, August 24, 2007 12:58:58 PM
Hilllary wants to buy your vote. Numerous other Democrat (not Democratic...that is incorrect when applied to a
political party) pols want to buy your vote. If you were greedy and ignorant enough to overbuy a home and now can
no longer afford your home because the payments have risen to an impossible level...you can sell your vote to the
Dems because they want me to pay for bailing you out and allowing you to keep your overpriced house. Notice that
I don't use the word home. That's because I feel that a home is somewhere where you are comfortable not where
you live every day worrying about what the neighbors are going to think when your house is repossessed.
When we bought our home we didn't go for more than we could afford. When our neighbors were trading up we
stayed put because we could afford our home and still have money after the mortgage payment was made each
month. Yes we had to struggle in the beginning, but we made it on our own..no help from government. When our
mortgage was paid off a "friend" asked why we were still living in this house. She wanted to know why we weren"t
buying a new, larger home. She gave me a blank look when I said that we preferred to live without a mortgage.
Then I remembered that she is always redecorating her house (why hasn't she moved up...oh! wait..she died less
than ten years later) and always votes for Dems.
I don't just blame the Democrats for the state of things. I also blame the media. Television ads and programs also
feed the beast. We are told that we "deserve" to have everything we want NOW! We are told that we are somehow
less than we should be if we don't have the newest, the biggest, the most expensive. The MSM touts the latest
crazy theories from Lala land and from the Liberals, the most destructive being "nothing is ever your fault." It's the
fault of the lenders...the fault of the Mother in Law that wants MORE for her daughter than she and Son in Law can
afford...fault of friends and neighbors that have more than you have (you DO have to keep up after all), etc. Now
you want us to bail your sorry selves out of your predicament!
I know of a woman who decided that she wanted a very, very expensive piece of cleaning equipment. The only
problem was, she worked at a barely above minimum wage job. The man selling door to door said no problem, we
can finance this for you. You guessed it. She bought-she lost job-company sued. When asked why she bought what she couldn't afford, her reply was, "because I deserve the best and I want it."
This is what happened in housing, Next, we'll be forced to bail out the McDonald's fry cook when he/she cannot
pay for the Mercedes that he/she "deserved, wanted, and couldn't pay for."
I suspect that behind the defaulting mortgagees we have investors that overextended themselves and now arte
on the line for millions of dollars. We are more than likely being pushed to bail them out along with the homeowners. After all Dem Pols ( or Pols period) very seldom do anything for the little guy unless it will result in
votes for them. Hillary and her ilk prefer to think of us as sheep that follow whatever bell is ringing, never asking
if we are being led over a cliff.
Til next time
TXRose