Are you an idiot to keep paying your mortgage?

SF Gate ^ | 16 Nov 2008 | Kathleen Pender

[metmom]

Watch the woman get caught hook, line and sinker.

"If I help him, he's gonna help me."

Hmmm, like his illegal aunt in where ever?

Like his half-brother in Kenya?

Like his grandmother in Hawaii?

Like his campaign workers who he didn't pay?

Like Joe the Plumber who he really doesn't want to punish for being successful BUT......?

[metmom]

You know, newb, some of us do have morals and a conscience.

That’s what makes us conservatives.

Maybe FR just isn’t your cup of tea....

[CottonBall]

I once asked my father, who grew up during the depression, why people didn't just steal, and take what they wanted from others. He explained that in order to have a civilization, it required all of us to be "civilized". If we couldn't trust each other, civilization was lost.

I find it so sad that in just 2 generations, we've gone from The Greatest Generation - who stoicly went through deprivations and then fought for other's freedom because it was the right thing to do - to the Selfish and Greedy Generation.

In a weird way, I'm thinking a depression right now might be the only thing to save this country's moral compass. Boomers and Xers have never sacrificed anything or learned the value of anything not dealing with money. Hardships and how one deals with them is what develops character. That and it may be the only way to overcome what the libs have done to our kids - they are producing soft and entitlement-grabbing illiterates in our schools. After this last election, I think it will take a huge devastating event to change the mindset of many out there. (FR is my refuge from all the craziness.)

[CottonBall]

This discussion reminds me of Red Green, who reminds his viewers at the end of each show that “If women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.”

;) I think handy is much more important over the years!