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To: bgill; Meet the New Boss

So let me get this clear.....using a different setting.

Nearly 12 years ago a good friend of mine and his wife and children were killed on Alaska Flight 261 from Puerto Vallarta back to Seattle.

At their memorial funeral service should I have told the family that he and his wife were old enough to know that air travel was risky and that they were to blame for their deaths and the deaths of their children for taking such a risk?

And even if I knew that the Chinese manufactured Lead Screw of the Rudder Flight Control System was made of defectively Tempered Steel Metal, and that McDonnell-Douglas failed in its QA procedures to catch the Chinese cutting corners as Mac-Dac sought to outsource and cut costs on labor, should I not still launch a verbal epitaph out loud at the funeral service on those that lost their lives due to their own risky decisions?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261

And should I also ignore that our own FAA during the time of ‘Blame America First’ under the Clintons chose to not blame the Chinese and its Mac-Dac benefactor but instead chose to blame Alaska Airlines for not greasing the Lead Screw properly? Does it matter? According to them, Alaska was the easy target as they had the easy pickings in insurance backing to settle the mess, while my friends and their beautiful children were ripped into shreds of flesh, bone and muscle.

Yeah, let’s go blame that family, let’s blame those parents.


17 posted on 10/25/2011 12:26:43 PM PDT by Hostage (The revolution needs a spark. The Constitution is dead.)
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To: Hostage
No you haven't "gotten this clear" because you're intentionally missing the point.

People can act prudently and still get burned. People can take all the precautions in life they want to and might still get struck by lightning walking down the street.

People acting prudently were NOT the ones who caused the housing bubble and the economic crisis.

Sometimes people who save up in order to make a strong down payment and only buy a smaller house instead of a bigger house because that is what their monthly income can reasonably support, still lose their house because of a tragedy or unusual change in circumstances.

BUT THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MASSIVE HOUSING BUBBLE.

That situation of people who saved up and bought a smaller house instead of bigger house has nothing to do with liars' loans, subprime mortgages, flippers, greedy "young couples" who bought a much bigger house than they could afford because they expect Big Government to take care of them if they guessed wrong on the future direction of the housing market and don't make a bundle of money, 5% down payments, stupid people who don't save any of their paycheck but spend it all, thinking that the government will always be there to save them, etc.

The root cause of the economic crisis is stupid, irresponsible, selfish, greedy people who believe the lies in the popular culture and from the Democrats that they are "entitled" to various things, including a big expensive house that they could not reasonably afford.

18 posted on 10/25/2011 12:46:29 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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