"Tony Helton" wrote in message
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Too much of the US economy is based upon excess consumption and easy
credit. Many people buy things they don't really need or can't afford.
Just take a look on the water - big, expensive Bayliners with idiots at
the helm. The US economy is now returning to where it should be - houses
are becoming more affordable and leisure good are once again becoming a
luxury. I most certainly welcome it! Less people on the water, food prices
will solve the obesity epidemic and gas prices will solve traffic and
pollution problems. Lower tax revenue will shrink the size of government.
People will learn to focus more on living rather than spending.


I like the way you think. I wish there were more people like you around
because it would be a saner and less disgustingly obese country that wallows
in ignorance and hedonism. It says a great deal about this country when you
look around and see that so-called 'poor' people are just as obese or even
more so than the 'rich' people. And so-called poor people have two color TVs
with cable and just about all of them own one or two cars and their houses
are air conditioned and they all have hot and cold running water and they
own washers and dryers, ovens, dishwashers etc. Our so-called poor live like
kings compared to the real poor in many other countries and yet they
complain about how bad they have it and they demand govt. handouts and
taxpayer financed health care, etc. Sad!

These idiots (lending institutions and borrowers) who had no business
borrowing well above their ability to pay a loan back and the lending
institutions that allowed the unqualified to borrow should all be forced to
go bankrupt or close their doors. This would be a lesson to future such
insane activities. Act irresponsibly - lose your ass! And that's the way it
should be. There is no free ride. As the bikers used to tell the biker
babes, "Ass, grass or gas - nobody rides for free!" You've got to let the
free-market have its normal cyclical ups and downs. The more govt. tries to
interfere with the normal swings the harder the whole thing will finally
crash.

There needs to be a law passed something along the lines that any luxury
item and recreational boats are luxury items have to be paid for with cash.
No financing allowed. And a large cash bond of say a million dollars for
liability would need to be posted. This would get the ignorant,
irresponsible jerks off the water.

Wilbur Hubbard