A Family Secret (Joan Felt admits its about money)

The Press Democrat ^ | 6/5/05 | CAROL BENFELL

[Ruth A.]

Wasn't she saying they should use this to pay off her kids' education loans?

I believe she brought up the education loan to show "need" or justify her choice. Whether or not it is used for that is another story.

[muawiyah]

Watch out with that one. He's very old. He's the one who bought the house and did the garage conversion. It gives him a fully functional apartment, rent free, with GROUND LEVEL ENTRY.

Unless you wish to advise us that it is Conservative to lock grandpa in an upstairs room for the rest of his life, I wouldn't call this situation particularly Liberal.

It's just better.

[muawiyah]

We've been hearing that the "downstairs" part is actually the main floor and used to be the garage.

I've been to California many times. Trying to think of the last small house I saw there that had a basement! Maybe out in the Valley.

[muawiyah]

Sounds like there was a "Jones" fellow in there somewhere, but the "Felt" brother would be the gift of the counterculture.

[ArmyBratproud]

No shock here. A family that involves a lawyer operates on greed.

""There were many reasons why we decided to do it. I won't deny that to make money is one of them," Felt said. "My son, Nick, is in law school and he'll owe $100,000 by the time he graduates. I'm still a single mom, still supporting them to one degree or another, and I am not ashamed of this," Felt said.""