tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057621045927414166.post6403618376518260509..comments2024-01-13T22:38:36.837-05:00Comments on Six. Almost Seven..: Wakeup Call :: An Unknown Suicide Jumper On Atlanta's I-285 Spaghetti Junction..Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11898311279323737165noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057621045927414166.post-81642803222517660592008-05-21T20:39:00.000-05:002008-05-21T20:39:00.000-05:00Hi..Thank you so much for your personal observatio...Hi..<BR/><BR/>Thank you so much for your personal observations.. Mine come from witnessing firsthand our most vulnerable populations preyed upon by the unscrupulous..<BR/><BR/>You said: "Give me break. I'd have more empathy towards the foreclosures if I personally didn't see the loan documents day in and day out of the people who had no business buying such an expensive house."<BR/><BR/>Empathy certainly would come from Walking from in these Shoes.. To all of the same vein, my question would be.......<BR/><BR/>"What do you proactively do to protect those people from themselves as well as *your business* that you *know* you are consciously putting at risk..?"<BR/><BR/>Thank you again for your own observations from your Shoes..<BR/><BR/>Best wishes.. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11898311279323737165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057621045927414166.post-49096936754830078492008-05-21T13:54:00.000-05:002008-05-21T13:54:00.000-05:00You act as if all the foreclosures in the country ...You act as if all the foreclosures in the country are due to 'rising living costs'. In reality a great many are caused by people who lived beyond their means, made bad financial decisions, and had poor priorities. <BR/><BR/>Let me see, should I overextend myself and run up another credit card, and buy a new Mercedes, or should I work on paying down the debt I currently have. <BR/><BR/>I understand that there a several people forced into foreclosure due to a job loss, or illness. Those people have my sympathy. Not those who chose to buy a home with a risky ARM Loan (Yes, so they could afford the payments on a home they couldn't ordinarily afford) and then cried when the loan re-adjusted and they couldn't refinance because they had trashed their credit from buying new cars, and running up credit card bills.<BR/><BR/>And while this is going on, people scream for the government to take care of the problems they created by being irresponsible. Why reward the idiots? Why bail them out of bad financial decisions? <BR/><BR/>What about the consumers who pay their bills, mortgages and don't overextend themselves on things that they don't need? Why don't they get rewarded?<BR/><BR/>Give me break. I'd have more empathy towards the foreclosures if I personally didn't see the loan documents day in and day out of the people who had no business buying such an expensive house. <BR/><BR/>Blame the lenders all you want. No one made the borrower sign the papers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com