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To: Bobkk47
Being in your own house was always part of the American dream, not a "given," or a "norm." Many folks worked for years to own their own house in a fiscally responsible manner.
2 posted on 02/07/2010 10:08:13 AM PST by Sax
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To: Sax

Wow, $1400 in rent? My mortgage is less than that, but I only have a 1st mortgage on a house we bought in ‘94.


3 posted on 02/07/2010 10:15:58 AM PST by brwnsuga (Not Black BUT Conservative, Black AND Conservative!!!)
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To: Sax
Being in your own house was always part of the American dream,

I wish people would stop saying this. The "American Dream" historically was only tangentially about a house. The real American Dream is being free to live your life as you see fit, without onerous, intrusive government getting in the way, and being able to go as far as your talents and motivation would carry you. That might mean a house or it might not.

The best way to restore the American Dream is not to sell houses to people who can't pay for them. It is to slash the government back to the proper distance, i.e., remote from the lives of everyday people.

Just think, at the turn of the last century, you could literally go for years without paying any attention to Washington at all, except at election time. Now, wouldn't that be a Dream.

5 posted on 02/07/2010 11:08:17 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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