"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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"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


You, sir, are a learned man! It is only the forces of nature and its natural
consequences that prevail. The best mankind can do is delay the inevitable,
but only at a much higher cost. It is far simpler and moral to let those who
act irresponsibly pay and pay alone for their actions. Their failures will
serve as great lessons to those more prudent. The notion that "one is thy
brother's keeper" can only lead to mutually assured self destruction. Such a
philosophy in the political arena is known as "Liberalism" which is a death
sentence upon a civilized and responsible society. Sharing blame, ill
fortune and misery are the signs of a civilization in decay.