“My name is Lilian Deck and my sister and I live in Spokane,” the girls’ letter begins. “We would like to ask you a question - where is the help you promised in your campaign?”
A few thoughts on my part...perhaps I'll be categorized as mean spirited, but I'm also not asking for the government to require anyone by threat of force or prison to aid me either...1) What did he do during those years he “made too much money”? I suspect (perhaps incorrectly) that he didn't build a six or nine month energy living expense fund. 2) What are his “over” qualifications? 3) Exactly who did he send those 300 resumes to, how willing has he been to take a lower paying job, relocate or change careers? 4) Has anyone in the Decker family noticed a pattern between unemployment and voting for Democratic presidential, gubernatorial and legislative candidates?
I suspect that if the Komo News had presented a few more facts about Mr. Deck's current and previous circumstances, not to mention a full finical disclosure, there wouldn't have been much of a story. I am very proud that our nation doesn't leave the unemployed out on the streets, but after a certain point (i.e. a year) it's time to ask what an unemployed person has done for his/herself (doubly so when they're making demands on others).
This is what the story says:
“”We didn’t have a subprime mortgage - we had a regular mortgage,” says Henry Deck. “When we went and asked for help, there is none. We don’t fall in the guidelines.”
“I made too much money two years ago - I don’t make enough now. We just fell through the cracks,” he says.””
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It sounds like 2 years ago he made too much money to receive government aid (which was paid for by his tax dollars, too). Now he doesn’t make enough to qualify for help to save his house.
Maybe I’m reading it wrong, but it doesn’t sound to me like Mr. Deck was rolling in the dough, living a life of luxury before he lost his job.
Too bad the reporter didn’t write a more informative story, so we’d know if the guy was worthy of vilification, instead of assuming he must be.
Why make these assumptions? Do you think that you have total control over what happens to you, and thus so does Mr. Deck? I hope you don’t find out the hard way that sometimes bad things happen to people that are not of their own making.
Let’s assume something positive: That Mr. Deck has been paying taxes out the wazoo for many years. Do we look down on him for needing and asking for tax-paid government assistance? Or is assistance reserved only for those who have never paid taxes in any appreciable amount?
This country isn’t in trouble because the ordinary Joes ran up their credit cards, bought boats and McMansions, and took vacations to Europe every year. People who did that, I’ll wager, are a very small percentage of the population. I have never met anyone who lives like that and I think I would have if a large percentage of people did.
People are getting rich from destroying the U.S. and its people (or trying to, very hard). It isn’t the ordinary Joes.