Woo-hoo! Good job American bank CEOs! Thanks for doing your part in ruining the economy! You did one heckova job! Oh and thanks to you US Government for taking such a proactive stance in the ridiculousness of the housing market! Mission Accomplished!
Thumbs up to you all!
The problem with politics; the root of the problem with all political parties and with political candidates is that instead of choosing the best person normally I’m stuck with having to choose the least bad person for the job. Look I’m a responsible adult that tries to make the right decisions when it comes to my career, my life, and my investments, I don’t feel I have the need to be baby-sit and have my hand held throughout my life by the government. It’s the government’s responsibility to protect me, not to take care of me.
I’m not looking for handouts, I don’t feel that the government has an obligation to me to provide health care, bail me out of bad financial investments, nor give things I want free. I do think people that make more money should pay more taxes. Look if you are making millions of dollars you can afford to pay more taxes, sure it sucks, but that’s the price of being successful in our society. I do think the government needs to look out more for the people of the USA then they do for the companies of the USA. I have very conflicting views that travel the full gamut of political parties. I love the environment and believe we should do a lot more then we currently do to protect it. I feel that our immigration laws should be enforced, not because I hate people that are different, but because I want people that are willing to endure the difficult process of becoming an American citizen, instead of those looking for a free ride (it’s a privilege not a right). I’m all for people coming here for a better life, but you got to do it the right way. Children up to the age of 18 deserve great education, because they are our future of the US, preschool should be mandatory from around age 3, and there should be wide improvements in the infrastructure of the US educational system, up to high school.
All investment in corn as a fuel should be stopped and more research should be taken into more efficient ways of the production of fuels (there are types of grass that are less expensive and much more efficient). All government subsidies should be removed. Abortion should be legal for any pregnant woman, but at the same time there should be strict guidelines on what reasons and when. Religion has no place in laws, period. People that get married and or have children should not get tax breaks. In fact people that have children should have to pay more taxes. Oh by the way, I don’t care if you are straight or gay, you deserve to be married to the person you love regardless of your sexual orientation. Marriage is not a religious concept. If religions want to call it something else, more power to them, but a marriage is a marriage and that’s what the government should recognize it as.
Companies shouldn’t be able to lobby the government to make things illegal because they might compete with their business. This is a free market as long as the item isn’t going to be deadly to my health it should be legal (not to say all substances should be legal, but things like stevia were illegal for years for no apparent reason). Talking about legal substances, marijuana should be legalized and taxed. But being under the influence of it should be illegal at times, just like alcohol. I could probably go on and on, but I’d continue to make too much sense if I do.
I wrote to my congressmen for the first time ever today.
Dear Congressman Campbell,
Watching the news lately it has come clear that many recent homeowners and a number of banks and investment firms made bad decisions when it came to mortgages. The US government has no reason to bail out anyone for bad business decisions. One of the main detractors to many investments are the possibilities of risks, they are known and are accepted as such. Companies should not be bailed out when they make bad investment decisions; all this will do will condition other companies to conducting the same types of investments and look for handouts as well. Along with these businesses the “homeowners” that decided to make bad decisions when it came to purchasing a home deserve no assistance with their bad choices. People should be responsible for their own actions and their own mistakes, and don’t deserve a pat on the back and a bail out for their poor choices. My wife and I choose to not purchase a home the last couple years because we understood that the housing market was a mess, we didn’t want to overextend ourselves on a home we couldn’t really afford. It was our choice to not buy a house, just like it was others choice to buy a house. I ask you to please vote against any bill that offers to give money to companies that made bad business decisions and wasted away billions of dollars on bad mortgages and debt. Please don’t condition these businesses and people that they will be helped out by the government every time that they make a bad choice.
It’s frustrating to see that my good choices are being punished while others bad choices are being rewarded. I can’t vote for someone that decides to reward these businesses that made poor choices, just like I can’t vote for someone that is going to bail people out because they can’t responsible for their own debts that they signed on the dotted line for. I do agree that there should be regulation of some type to prevent this in the future, but what’s done is done. My vote for you and your party holds in the balance with your vote on this bill. Don’t waste away $700,000,000,000.
Regards,
Daniel Schoonover
Hi? Anyone out there in LJ land? Nearly 6 months to the day and here I am back crossposting my personal website with LJ. Figured I might as well do it again since I do my restaurant reviews on their own site now. There will be a little difference though, I’ll only include excerpts here and once I figure it out, I might change some comment options. I’m using a new plugin that I need to figure out all the settings with.
I’ve been reading all your journals and I have been interjecting when I could, but it just didn’t seem like I had the same connection as I used to with all my old LJ friends, so we’ll see how this goes.
I’m going to save this here for prosperity. This is a quote from me on 07/26/07.
What sucks here is if I move out of Orange County, I’m still paying 500,000-900,000 for a house.
The problem I see in LA/OC area is they build these HUGE houses with barely any front or back lawns. Talking 2000 sq foot plus places with 4+ bedrooms. They really pack these places in. So you are right up next to your neighbor. My wife and I just want a nice small house we don’t need something gigantic. Honestly the LA/OC market is built on greed. People want huge houses, tons of toys, and huge profits. I hate the market here… We’d move but all our family is here, and we just bought a business and I have a great job. I don’t understand how people our age afford this stuff, other then they are putting themselves in major debt.
We got approved for a mortgage, too bad nearly every house in Orange County that fits our current price range is a distressed property. This type of ridiculous shit is a joke. And now we, being smart taxpayers that didn’t want to get in over our head get screwed even more since the government has decided to bail out all the idiots that decided to do creative financing. $700,000,000… Not to mention my retirement fund has lost a bunch as of late.
I know I’ve been quiet lately, but I have to do a quick post here and cheer on my Dodgers! They are almost there and I’m really hoping they pick it up here and make it into the playoffs. I’m looking forward to it so much that I purchased tickets for both the Divisional Championship seriers and the League Championship Series! I got Field Box level seats for both games.
Los Angeles Dodgers Division Series - Home Game 2
Dodger Stadium
Los Angeles, CA
Thu, Oct 2, 2008
07:10 PM
Los Angeles Dodgers League Championship Series - Home Game 3
Dodger Stadium
Los Angeles, CA
Fri, Oct 17, 2008
07:10 PM
The good thing is that I wasn’t even sure what specific days these were but they work out perfectly with my schedule at work. I don’t have training on Oct. 2nd and on the 17th I should have already finished my training for that week, which means I shouldn’t have too much of an issue getting to the games, especially since Kelly should be able to leave work early so we can get to them.
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Action packed movie that just kept going and going. I liked the story and the use of technology although it was a little out of whack of what could happen in real life. None the less I'm the guy that watched Alias and that was a comic book world, so this was a good watch.
0.3
Solid funny buddy flick. I think the hype had sort of wore off by the time we saw it. Really had some funny parts, but some of it was just a little too goofy.
0.3
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