Of course it happened.Cletus wrote:There is a zero percent chance that any of these encounters you describe ever happened. You do have a vivid imagination though.innocentbystander wrote:Its like a neighbor of mine said last week when we were talking about the election. We were at the block party discussing who we were voting for and my neighbor got all serious, wide-eyed, and indignant, "Are you kidding me? I HAVE to vote for Obama. I got two kids in high school, one is a junior and we live to check to check." Took a step closer to me, get red in the face. "Did you here what I said? I LIVE CHECK TO CHECK! I have no savings for our kids edcuation, nothing. We're upside down, we're fucked. If Obama gets re-elected then maybe my kids can go to college because somebody has to pay. I sure as shit can't. I know with Romney elected my kids are screwed." One person mentioned the debt and he got even angrier "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANY OF THIS DEBT SHIT!!!!! I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE DEBT!!!!! MY KIDS NEED SOMEONE TO PAY FOR THEIR COLLEGE! FUCK YOU MAN!" And he sauntered off screaming at the world with a can of Natty-Light in his hand.THE_WIZARD_ wrote:Make no mistake...this election was not about black...white...hispanic...social issues...it was about free shit.
Wiz, there is no reasoning with people like that. I basically am left shunning them because their irresponsibility has meant that their pride has left the building. A better man would start moonlighting for a second check to send his kids to college instead of expecting government to step in and make his family whole.
Cletus, we had about 3,000,000 people in this country who walked away from their homes because they were upside down. They lost their homes NOT because they couldn't make the payments but INSTEAD because they were upside down and they didn't think it was fair for them that someone could buy the same house they have just down the street for 60% of what they paid for theirs. Too many people (millions of people) are trying (and succeeding) at gaming the system to get what they feel is coming to them. President Obama is the man who makes them whole.
I don't give a fuck that you don't think what I said happened. My neighbor is not a unique person. There are millions of people who think the way they do (for the reasons he thinks.) Hell, I even remember growing up hearing my folks tell me that financial aid isn't "charity" (not that we qualified for a penny because we couldn't, unfortunately.) But it absolutely amazes me what people think they are entited to....