And many, many unaffected off in foreign lands remain aloof. Free to make blanket statements portraying responsible, hardworking Americans in a lousy light because they lost their jobs or investments or both.
Suckers deserve to be, are, and have always been fleeced, bamboozled, hustled, shanghaied, robbed, sold.
Hard work won’t help the stupid and the greedy. Lay down, invest, depend on liars and thieves and the usual happens. Always.
Crooks always go where the money is. And now the money is in government. So, that is where the crooks are, only they get to make the rules, so that stealing by other names, isn’t called stealing.
I suppose by hard education a few people are beginning to realizes that you can not work enough, harder, longer to make up for someone that is stealing morning noon and night, every day of your life from you.
As a group, we have the government we deserve, which is sucky.
Man I hate those guys! I hate when that happens!
I live in the smallest home in my neighborhood, an old farmhouse that was sold cheap when the farmer died and the developer cut the farm land up for McMansions. My house and land went for less than the empty lots for the other homes. I fixed it up, learning as I went and doing the plumbing, electrical, drywall, and other labor myself, and it's great for my family despite the low price. I chose not to take any risks with my home purchase, because as a (then small) businessman working for myself with an uncertain income, I was unwilling to accept extra risk when it came to my family's home. As it turned out, I did phenomenally well, paid off my small mortgage early, and stayed there. I didn't take out a home equity loan for a vacation, as one neighbor who lost his McMansion did (twice that I know of, two weeks each in Australia/Fiji and Switzerland/Rome!). I didn't trade up to a bigger home, as another foreclosed neighbor did (three times in a decade). I know several people who are facing foreclosure or have been foreclosed, and not a single one exercised what I consider reasonable caution when choosing how much to spend on that first home, whether to take out a second mortgage or home equity loan for discretionary spending, and whether to trade up to a bigger home.