There’s no need to be insulting to me just because I see the world the way it is instead of the way it ought to be. In hard times especially, people worry about their own house before they worry about their neighbor’s house. You can get all angry and philosophical and insulting if you want to but you aren’t going to change that. Incidentally, I’m not hitting on any bong and I have watched my home lose plenty of value over the past two years so I am far from happy about any of this as I would dearly love to sell the damned thing for at least what I paid for it but I can’t so I continue to make my payments like a good little mortgage owner even though I know this investment is a bust.
This is one of the best anecdotal definitions of a "slippery slope" I've ever read.