This is a thread about MI. People from MI are here telling it like it is. No one is asking for a cent from you. No one is asking for a bailout. We know what we have to do, no one needs to tell us and we WILL do whatever that is without you defining what I am, nor your crappy advice.
It gets really old to hear how freakin easy this all is, while we sweat our futures and you sit all nice and cozy in front of your PC. Added to that how this is all our faults because WE voted in Dems.
Well I didn’t. And I didn’t ask to have to lose 160,000 on my house.
Shove off. And a Merry Christmas. Hope you get just as much sympathy with every single crisis that every befalls you, your parents or your children. Cause what goes around comes around, my FRiend and sometimes all another person needs is a little “atta boy” instead of a puff to your own ego.
Hi Netmilsmom!
I live in Warren.
Unfortunately it’s easy for everyone from the other states to pile on everyone in a state with a liberal Democrat governor that went for the Democrat candidate in the Presidential election. Now I know how the FReepers in California must feel!
But really, I think this kind of division of writing off everyone in a state that went blue helps the “other side” more than our side.
I agree with you on the current situation in real estate / selling your house at anything near enough to just break even if no one is buying.
In retrospect, it would have been a good idea to sell the house a few years ago, keep the money and rent a house or apt, (also cash out the 401K even if taking the early withdrawal distribution tax penalty and keep the cash on hand or in savings accounts) but who knew then?
Exactly what to do know is a really a tough choice. I guess I’ll have to figure out at what point I’ll lose the house anyway, and stop paying the mortgage and save up the cash six months from that...
I’m not going to wait until my savings accounts and cash are all zero to move - I figure it is best to go on a job-hunting vacation to some of these other wonderful states and just abandon the house and leave with some cash in my pocket and what I can carry in the two vehicles...
Fortunately, I am a long way from that (I am still working at Chrysler - for however long I have a job there). But if things go on and on and get worse and worse, it could get real interesting with a lot of people with no jobs, no savings, and no place to live.
“It gets really old to hear how freakin easy this all is, while we sweat our futures and you sit all nice and cozy in front of your PC.
Well I didn’t. And I didn’t ask to have to lose 160,000 on my house.
Hope you get just as much sympathy with every single crisis that every befalls you, your parents or your children. Cause what goes around comes around...”
I live in the New Orleans metro area. I know a little something about difficulties. And I know that creating artificial reasons(Texans won’t like us) about why something can’t be done doesn’t get one’s life in order.
You’ve probably already done this, but I’ll mention it anyway. If you have family or friends out of state, have your husband check out those areas. At least he might have a place to stay while he looks and a local recommendation.
Hey-we are dealing with this in Ohio too. My husband will be out of work for a month just before Christmas-who knows if there will be a job at the end of this-during downtime, management used to get paid we don’t know if this will be so now. My kids are driven to school or walk the two miles to school. My town can’t afford busing since Packard and Adelphi left. We have no electives in our schools. Next years, there will be no gym, music or foreign language programs.
These bozo’s (not all of you) who post about ‘moving on to another state’ are clueless. You can’t move if you have no money. If you leave a house behind, the bank will come after you and garnish whatever wages you manage to make. The fact is what is happening in Michigan and Ohio is a glimpse of what will come to all Americans in the future.
You think Bush really wants to socialize the banks? He may not be a Reagan conservative, but these bailout are not characteristic of Pres. Bush. He is desperate because the crisis is so severe. Those of you who bash Michigan. I’ve seen plenty of that are losers who no longer understand what it means to be an American. We help our own, and we don’t ask them who they voted for first.
I guess the GOP will become a regional Southern Party if this sort of attitude prevails. Is this what anyone really wants? Is it good for our country?