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Hard-working achievers deserve federal help

Tue, 03/31/2009 - 3:30pm

By: Letters to the ...

Bill Webster and others like him seem to think that Rush, Herman Cain, Neal Boortz and Sean Hannity are objective sources of information.

In the current economic crisis, it is working, taxpaying citizens who are in trouble. Mr. Webster says that Congress wants to take from “achievers.”

Achievers? All of my friends work, pay taxes and take care of their families, yet many are currently in some kind of financial trouble because of the current economic meltdown.

Mr. Webster writes about people who bought houses they couldn’t afford. Well, let me tell you this. If the particular business or industry you’re in declines or disappears, you can easily find yourself in mortgage trouble even if you’ve owned your modest little home for 20 years.

It’s not just people who bought homes they couldn’t afford who are in mortgage trouble. It’s very often people whose jobs have disappeared and have been unable to find work. This economic meltdown we are experiencing is not the fault of average Joe, yet average Joe is taking the hardest hit. I see nothing wrong with a little government help for people who are in trouble through no fault of their own.

It’s particularly interesting that Mr. Webster writes of our constitution being intended for religious and moral people. I’m pretty sure that people who think like Mr. Webster would like to define religious and moral for all of us. By the way, all of the Boortz fans should look into the Boortz brand of libertarian conservation and see just how religious and moral Boortz’s views are. You shall be surprised.

I can hardly imagine how much fun it would be attending a Glen Beck viewing party with Mr. Webster and his Boortz-worshiping friends. What a thoughtful, kind and caring bunch that must be.

Jerry Bivens

Concord, Ga.

Hard-working achievers do deserve federal help BUT...

Submitted by 1bighammer on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 5:18pm.

The problem is , Mr Bivens, many of the ones getting help are the useless ones that won't help themselves. You are correct in your statement that It’s not just people who bought homes they couldn’t afford who are in mortgage trouble. Those people aren't the ones everyone is jumping up and down about , truth be told ...they should be the first ones on the list.

Like it or not Rush, Herman Cain, Neal Boortz and Sean Hannity all apeak for a growing population of people FED up with being taken advantage of by the Government.

Obviously they haven't taken advantage of you enought yet!

Achievers do need help, but look how it is being organized

Submitted by Robert W. Morgan on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 4:13am.

Obama's mortgage assistance plan is available to anyone below a certain income level and it limits the amount of the mortgage payment to 31% of gross income. Sound good so far? Well chew on the next part. IT DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ANY OTHER DEBT! So, you can get your mortgage reduced and as long as you make your payments with 31% of your gross pay you can do what you want with the other 69%.

That means you can ignore your other creditors - like credit cards and watch the next crisis in the credit markets develop - as it certainly will. How does a responsible government arbitrarily lower payments without considering other debt? What is going on here? This looks like something ACORN would organize.

True about Boortz

Submitted by Doug on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 10:05pm.

He can't stand Christians. He probably hate the Muslims too.

If achievers means those that fleeced the rest

Submitted by suggarfoot on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 8:08pm.

I have problems with that.

I have lived a long life. Not until the 60s did I hear on TV, and very much from something everyone else thought of as trash...the idea, that to swindle was good business, and let the buyer be ware.

Everyone looked at someone like that as pathetic and ignored them, trying to be kind.

Maybe.. that is another reason we are where we are today.

We have let people, who are utter trash, steal, and because they were the pond scum, people you didn't want your kids to emulate,

good people ignored them.

The tragedy of the good person is...

we... assumed.... others shared our values. To a large extend, they did.

But, we didn't pass laws against the pond scum that floated to the top like all scum does.

We thought good would prevail, just like in the story books.

That didn't happen. While hard working people were out earning an honest living, the scum hired lobbyist to hawk their ideas to the people we held in highest regard, people we hired to protect us.

What happened?

There was an old Black lady that raised me who use to say...

"you can't stir...s@@tt without getting some on you.."

The scum we ignored, splattered on our elected officials..

now look at us..

Very good, hard working people, who believe in right and wrong, are now supporting the scum and the rest that feed on us.

If we don't take back our country. The water is already so full of s@@@t,

everything else below is dying...your dreams, your children's hopes, your desire for them to have a good life,

all going under

the trash that we ignored out of graciousness

has clogged our system and is killing us.

Sugar you are correct

Submitted by S. Lindsey on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 8:40pm.

For way too long the good people the ones who just want to earn an honest living.. come home to their family.. do what is right, pay their bills and try to be an overall good citizen have been ignored and often sneered at by the very ones Washington caters to.. The lowest common Denominator.. At almost every turn we are told to sit down.. shut up and take it.. while our taxes are used to fund pet projects or given to people that will not raise a finger to help themselves.. We are preached at by the Holywood elites and Politicians who are themselves corrupted by the power and wealth.. Taxes are for the little people.. and they have stopped listening to us a long long time ago...

I will not lower my standards.. So UP YOURS.. Evil

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that does bring some of us to

Submitted by suggarfoot on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 8:22pm.

thoughts about some on the BOE...sad..sad

Amen Sugarfoot....Lets flush the toilet...immediately....

Submitted by mysteryman on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 8:21pm.

Thank goodness there others out there who see it like it is and realize we are all responsible for this mess, and that we all have to come together to get us out of it too.. Now lets all flush on three... If everyone out there would quit buying non-essential items for one month, i mean no new cars, no eating out, no luxurys, it would quickly bring Washington back under our control, as they would have no choice as to obey our commands as it is our government to begin with... But no everyone is only concerned about themselves, and the me me me generation, could care less, as long as Starbucks is open, and they can ride around in the Hummer.....What a SHAME BLESS.....

mysteryman..I wish a flush would do it

Submitted by suggarfoot on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 8:32pm.

the barnacles are really entrenched.

Why?

This is the only way they can ..FEED...without effort.

at some point, people will have to stand up for the next generation, or feed their kids future to the barnacles, and acknowledge, we wronged our kids by being wimps and lnot putting forth the effort!