There is nothing more important than keeping alive the American dream to own your home, and priority number one is to keep well-meaning, deserving home owners who are facing foreclosure in their homes.To keep them where?
-The Senator from These Kids Today That Isn't Music Get off My Lawn
The "nothing more important" locution is common enough in politics, and you can be plenty sure that it signifies the opposite of what it says, and the clue from Senator Snaps-a-Lot is that he's keeping "alive" a "dream." Now you will pardon me for my skepticism, but maintaining the unliteral, metaphorical life of an abstraction of a desire seems to me to be largely unrelated to the question of whether or not the government of the United States of America ought to give someone money in order to prevent a lot of poor bastards--excuse me, well-meaning, deserving home owners--from finding their asses in foreclosure.
Of course, my position on the issue is that the government shouldn't, and that all those poor bastards ought to burn the motherfucker down on their way out the door just to make all those bad debts even more motherfucking unrecoverable, thus delivering yet another balpine-hammer-blow to the monstrous cankles of American finance. Creative destruction, my bitches.
16 comments:
I like the use of the adjective "well-meaning homeowners".
So who gets to sort out the well-meaning from the bad-meaning? Will there be means testing?
Besides which, don't you usually say that someone "means well" after he's done something fuck-all stupid and terrible?
minor quible: ballpeen, other than that, Burn the Motherfu$%er down.
In fact, ex-homeowners (who are deficient in the home department by a factor of One), are leaving their homes trashed spawning the term Trashout.
Prof.
Destruction of other's property isn't very libertarian ioz.
YF
There is nothing more important than keeping alive the American dream to own your home, and priority number one is to keep well-meaning, deserving home owners who are facing foreclosure in their homes.
But not the asshole homeowners. Those fuckers can rot in the street.
But, YF, it is very mutualist.
Mr. McCain outlined several other proposals today, including one to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to drive down the price of oil by driving down the demand.
In a related item, I plan not to buy a house this month, in an effort to drive down the price of housing by driving down the demand.
Hey, we all do what we can.
Hey, Christopher, and Cthulhu's Mom, and IOZ: of course there will be means-testing. Of course we can sort out the "well-meaning" homeowners from the bad ones. Simple, really: let the free market sort it out! Those who were able to pass the stringent application processes of major lenders such as Bear Sterns/Washington Mutual, Citibank, or Fannie Mae, are obviously the "well-meaning" ones.
So we'll simply shovel some good ol' taxpayer-funded government bailout money onto fine, upstanding organizations such as those lenders, and the problem is solved.
What he meant to say is that there is nothing more important than keeping well meaning dogs in their homes.
drip
Even among cynics, few things are sadder than abandoned pets.
Older cats and dogs stand next to no chance of being adopted.
They will live out the remainder of their lives in cages, or be "put down" as a display of our mercy. Some masters....
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Speaking of deer...
reports have been rampant up here in frozen tundra land that we will lose 30% of the deer herd to starvation. Folks have gone on about the hard winter, but it is more "normal" than the climate changing wimp-ass shit we've endured for much of the last two decades.
No one wants to blame the source:
Wildlife Mgt. "experts" backed by the hunting lobby's refusal to reintroduce wolves to the north woods. Coyotes can't bring down the old or sick deer in deep snow.
Only wolves can do the kind of big animal kills necessary for the health and well-being of the herd.
And, let me tell you folks, dying of starvation up here in the wiliwags is no way to go - for either man or beast.
Mike
If I ever find myself particularly hard up for food, I fully expect my friends and loved ones to sic a big ass wolf on me, it's only merciful.
YF
You could be an immense ground-shaking lardass, YF; hell, Ween could have written the song "Big Fat Fuck" about you personally, and I'd still sic a big-ass wolf on you just because your comments are always annoying. Just sayin', if this is some dream of yours, we can make it happen.
i think that a big-mouthed wolf would be preferable for the task at hand.
Don't fret none YF, I got your back.
(Thought what you wrote was funny, but then I'm me and all.)
Make you a deal: if you're ever out there on the edge of the prairie starving to death, I'll throw you a bone.
Git it? Throw you a bone??
Now THAT'S some lame-ass shit!
Mike
"monstrous cankles of American finance."
LOVE IT!!!! Ha.
I actually blogged this last week "Home foreclosed? Ur Doin it Wrong." The authorities are so overwhelmed by the hundreds/thousands of forclosures that it takes several months to even get a court date.
And how about this! You can just refuse to leave until they come up with the ORIGINAL promissory note. In 99% of the cases it was lost during the reselling frenzy. There are people all over the US squatting in their foreclosed homes and no one is doing anything about it.
And stop paying your student loans, too!
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