On August 12th, 2008 at 11:20 am, lgm said:

This is like the Reagan “welfare queen“. One instance of abuse is supposed to make us thing everyone is abusing. In Reagan’s case, it was a fabrication. Many people have lost their homes because they were misled about the terms of the loan.

And do you say boo freakin hoo about gas prices?

As a matter tactics, a post like this will not attract lots of new people to the conservative side. It does not look good to seem to enjoy the suffering of others.

Welfare queens, freebie state and federal benefits for illegal aliens, the liberal MSM, etc.

All “anecdotal” to liberals. Never a possibility that their well laid plans are grossly out of control due to a simple lack of understanding of human nature.

And all the while, liberals like lgm praise and support the incremental dismantling of our society.

Life is definitely starting to imitate art: read “Marching Morons” by C.M. Kornbluth, a short story from the fifties. Look up a description of it on the web and tell me I am wrong.

As for “enjoying the suffering of others,” watching the demonstrably stupid publicly hoist themselves on their own petards is an object lesson for everyone, and they deserve our scorn.

Apologists like lgm are simply enablers. “Many people have lost their homes because they were misled about the terms of the loan?” Can they read? If not, again we return to the problem of liberal infested public schools.

It just makes me think back to the two “plump” ladies who were complaining that they could no longer afford to buy ice cream because their government handouts just weren’t sufficient enough. Their father had worked for the same company for 30+ years, yet all of his children and his childrens spouses were living off their government checks, none of them working.

I can’t help but wonder if these parents are passing on some of the same values that they have apparently lived by. They have worked hard, so their children can be big nothings.

cocaine.

I don’t think anything else could have used up all that money with nothing left over. It’s wicked stuff.

On August 12th, 2008 at 3:18 pm, knudt said:

I don’t feel sorry for the siblings or the lenders. They borrowed $450,000 on a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, 1,140 sq ft house next to the railroad tracks. Then they blew the money. Stupid borrowers and stupid lenders.

In my area this house (with what looks to be NO yard) would be worth about $50,000, in its current ram shackled condition. California is so out of whack with real estate prices/values that they contributed to this mess themselves. Gotta love the enviro-wackos.

On August 12th, 2008 at 11:20 am, lgm said:
This is like the Reagan “welfare queen“. One instance of abuse is supposed to make us thing everyone is abusing. In Reagan’s case, it was a fabrication. Many people have lost their homes because they were misled about the terms of the loan.

And do you say boo freakin hoo about gas prices?

In the immortal words of Saturday Night Live:

LGM, you ignorant slut.

People here are not saying EVERYONE is abusing (although a lot of the people in foreclosure did). We are, as in an earlier case Michelle pointed out, mocking idiots who have a house that is owned free and clear and through their own stupidity pissed it away. Then your MSM comes along and wants to make the “victims” a sob story. That dog won’t hunt.

1) The Salvation Army is taking some of the furniture, old-looking stuff but with a high replacement cost. Charity is fine, but in this case it looks like a continuing lack of frugality. You can store a recliner and a nice credenza for many months for the cost of replacing either one.

2) It is never said that Joann was previously married, or that there are siblings other than her brother. Yet her niece has a different surname. Out-of-wedlock childbirth is not a crime, but together with other factors it can certainly point to a pattern of irresponsibility. I’m sympathetic to the parents whose kids mortgages their house away, but the evidence suggest that neither of the 50ish kids was raised well.

3) The paper says that it has had prior coverage of this family, but a search comes up with nill. I wonder if we would learn more from earlier articles.

I smell fraud. I don’t think those old people were in their right mind.