Greg Reimer
Well Known Member
Anybody take in the President's speech at Mt Rushmore? Great stuff. It's replay is on C Span right now. Great job!!
The current hate and violence reminds me of the housing crisis that wreaked havoc on our nations economy. About 10% of the people caused a nation wide melt down. Excuse after excuse was used for these people. Everything from predatory lenders, to racism was blamed. As usual, no one held the people responsible for their actions. The majority suffered even though most knew that most people took loans they knew they could not pay. However, to be PC, they blamed anyone else but the borrowers. Here we are again. A very small percentage of this country is wreaking havoc on our country. The majority is standing by and are afraid to say anything. Our economy and way of life is suffering as our elected officials sit in silence. And the majority of the US population are allowing it to happen. Come November, and all following elections, the people of the US will vote again to keep in office those that sat silent. The people will blame the opposing political ideology, knowing that their representative did nothing. They all have sat silent. Look hard into the mirror, who is really to blame here?
In some way, brother would be correct. The lender's loan was most likely secured by the full faith and backing of our government. More deep state bullshit that most assuredly benefited someone in Congress.It wasn't just Clinton pushing for the lending criteria to be lowered, Bush continued the policy. I get people wanting to try to get a home. However, story after story of people making 2K a month buying 500K homes because they got a 2 year or more interest free loan. They assumed the housing would go up by the end of the free interest period and they could refinance or sell. However they knew they could not afford the loan and did it anyway. Yes they lenders also knew and gave them the loans, however they don't have to pay, and NO ONE was forced to take a loan. My own brother did this. New cars and trucks, 2 homes, (1) 450K, (1) 210K with a 100K equity loan, credit cards maxed out, and kept spending. All on about 100K a year. My house was almost paid off at the time. He tried to get me to use the equity and buy some houses to flip. I said no. He lost everything. He blamed predatory lenders for his problems.
In some way, brother would be correct. The lender's loan was most likely secured by the full faith and backing of our government. More deep state bullshit that most assuredly benefited someone in Congress.
Back to a more patriotic theme-- we were watching Fox a bit ago, and the military flyovers comprised of both Thunderbirds and the B-2 bomber just occurred over NYC and Philadelphia. Nothing like the sights, sounds,and energy of those displays to put a great feeling in a guy, especially the B-2. That thing is LOUD!!. It commands respect and pride wherever it goes. We should have them fly it over our next riot scene about 200 feet over the tallest buildings just to remind all the dirty little losers on ground level who is really boss. Happy 4th of July and let's never forget what this day stands for.