Quote Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
Now when good ol' Uncle Sam buys up all these investments, as they've been talking about, will these assclowns receive eviction notices for lack of payment? You can't buy a $100,000 house making $12/hour. "Oh, you mean I still have to pay for heat, phone, cable, taxes and feed my family? NOT FAIR!"
This $700 Billion isn't about bailing out the guy who took out the loan he can't afford --- he is definitely getting the eviction notice. Out on your ass! No bailout for you! It's about bailing out the dumbass who loaned the money to the guy who can't pay! "Oh, you mean you decided to pay for heat, phone, cable, taxes and feed your family instead of pay me back? NOT FAIR!"

I don't let the guy who took out a loan he couldn't afford off the hook, but apparently the guy who definitely should have known better, the guy whose JOB it is to qualify only people who can pay, that guy is too big to fail. These people loaned out money to people they knew had no ability to pay, and now the taxpayers have to buy these bad loans up to keep the fucking economy from tanking. You're blaming the millions of people who made a big mistake in their own personal finance, a mistake that is going to cost them plenty, and not the people whose JOB it is to know better?

Also, it is not fair to say that all of these people facing foreclsure are simply dumbasses who should have known better. Many of them are, but also the economy has lost 600,000 jobs already this year. How many of those foreclosures do you think are due to someone who had a perfect ability to pay last year, but lost his job this year? How many do you think are due to someone who could pay last year but got sick without insurance and can't pay now?

I think the bailout is necessary, but you can see where the anger and resentment comes from. There's no money to help out someone who made a bad choice and is stuck in a bad loan they can't pay. There is no money to keep someone who lost their job from losing their house. There is no money for healthcare. But there is $700 billion overnight for a Wall Street crisis that most people don't see affecting them personally. Of course, it will affect them personally, even if they don't see how. But they can definitely see how this other stuff affects them, and there is no help from the government on that. There is never any money for everyday problems that normal people have been facing for years, but suddenly in less than a week there is $700 billion for people who most normal folks think of as rich.

It looks like the government has been bullshitting for years about not being able to pay for ordinary people's problems, but they can take those ordinary taxpayers money and give it away to rich folks at the drop of a hat. It's not as simple as that, but you can't blame people for seeing it that way.
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