Nope, I'm done with this shit. No more compassionate conservatism here. No more allowing the government to fix what the government effed up and then thanking Chris Dodd and Barney Frank for forcing banks to lend to poor credit risks so they could save me from the beast. They are the damn beasts.
I second that!!
I don't care for what Frank nor Dodd have done either. But the reality of it is that right now this very moment anyone can still find ample credit applications and ample credit. I bet my dog can find credit. That degree of loaning irresponsibility must fall directly on the lender itself.
“More BS. I have no debt”
Your lack of debt is not the concern. It will be the lack of anything to buy and the inflation that will make your valuables... valueless.
A-men to that. I didn’t say it was right, it is just the way it is now. As a country we decided to become Socialism-light in the ‘30s. Reagan slowed the movement, but with Bush, Clinton and Bush, the pace is picking up again. I just don’t see the momentum slowing for us to get back on the right track.
I hear ya brother, loud and clear. You can't cure cancer with aspirin - you've got to remove the infecting tissue. Barney F., Chris Dodd, Obama, and several others are the infecting tissue. Get rid of them, then deal with the rest.
It's time to whack the mafia, and that's what today's democrat party is - the mafia.
It wouldn't be Compassionate Concrvatism anyway, Compassionate Conservativism is volunteering at your church or school or volunteer fire department, helping your neighbor with his fence and maybe throwing a few bucks to a NON-government group to put a well down in an African village.
I'm with you, brother. Busted my ass when I was young with overtime a given. Married a woman with the same values. Splurged on a nice riparian property. (Almost paid off). Ira-check. 401(k)-check. One other investment-a safe full of guns with 500 rds. for each. (5,000 for the .22) Will I be pissed when my investments lose 90% of their value? Yeah, for a while. But the squirrels and rabbits and deer out back better watch out. Wall Street and D.C. be damned.
YES Brother!!
I pay cash for everything but the house. I pay no interest to CC companies. Saved my butt off all my life and forgoed luxuries I easily could have had !!!!!!!!!!!!
I am doing fine, absolutely fine. Diversifiedso I will lose a lot, but still a lot in cash reserves.
Now people like us gotta foot the bill for incompetency...???????????