A prime example of what's wrong with this country

Discussion in 'Economics' started by newguy05, Mar 5, 2009.

  1. For someone like me who lives conservatively, yet making good money doing a 9/5 job while paying high taxes and get zero bailout. Now i am basically bailing out this clueless idiot with a 800k house. Add insult to injury, she claims she does not need help but "just to get the government to lower the interest rate". WTF does she think that money comes from....

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/03/05/acosta.foreclosure.outrage.cnn

    so unfair. :mad:
     
  2. GMCAMARO

    GMCAMARO

    $800K, a school bus driver and construction worker. Hell, I was an engineer I thought I could not afford 400K outside of Boston, MA. They sure pay their school bus drivers well out in Washington if she can afford 800K.

    I am moving as soon as they foreclose on my place.
     
  3. RobtF

    RobtF

    More like a "sub-prime" example.
     
  4. JOSEF

    JOSEF

    <i>For someone like me who lives conservatively, yet making good money doing a 9/5 job while paying high taxes and get zero bailout. Now i am basically bailing out this clueless idiot with a 800k house. Add insult to injury, she claims she does not need help but "just to get the government to lower the interest rate". WTF does she think that money comes from....

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us...ure.outrage.cnn

    so unfair. </i>

    I agree 100% with you.

    There are also a lot of us who have been paying, with our hard-earned tax money, for the Iraq war. We have been against the Iraq war from the get-go, yet we are forced to pay for it.

    I wish when we pay our taxes there was a way we could more specifically specify to where our taxes should go.

    I bet there would be less dumb wars and less idiotic bailouts if this could be done.