She wants sob stories?
Michelle Malkin has an article up today about Hillary wanting housing crisis sob stories with which to launch a full-scale Housing Czarina and Economic Stimulus campaign.
She wants sob stories? I’ll give her one.
Yes, I’m sobbing at times and worried about my personal economic situation. A few years ago we bought our home. It’s nothing special. We had a price range, chosen by us, and we stayed within that range. We got a good deal on the house and the mortgage. However, and this is where it hurts, prices of everything have gone up. We used to be able to sock away money every month. My hubby being in construction, we always need an emergency fund for those nonworking times. We don’t have that anymore, even with him working overtime because… prices of everything have gone up. Utilities have gone up, gasoline, foodstuffs, medicines, insurance… you name it, it has gone up.
Now, they’re talking about bailing out the people who were foolish enough to buy above their means with lousy mortgage contracts and the only way they can do that is raise taxes. Now, if they raise taxes when they’ve already strapped people through other taxes and cost of living increases that have afflicted us through prices for everything increasing, is bailing out the foolish the answer? Isn’t that like punishing people for doing things the right way?
Truth to tell, I wouldn’t be at home working at this tiny business that doesn’t make much money. I’d be in some kind of job to make ends meet, but, still… What if I were disabled and unable to go to work? What if something else prevented me from getting a job away from home? What kind of job would I get out there in the public sector with a controlled but considered chronic medical condition?
You see, these politicians pandering for votes don’t think about who else might be affected by their policies bailing out the foolish. We’re too privileged to be considered, I suppose.
Posted by Stephanie
January 11th, 2008 at 11:30 am
My in-laws got a federal tax refund before t he glorious Clinton years began. But when Clinton raised taxes, they had to pay a hell of a lot more. My mom-in-law’s a teacher, and my father-in-law was at that time a police officer. Yet the blankety-blank Clintons said that they were “rich” and needed to pay their “fair share.”
Yet one more reason why I, as a one-time Truman/Reagan Democrat, ain’t a modern Democrat.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Mo, in this state, Bredeson has raised sales taxes and gasoline taxes. Also tobacco taxes if you care about that issue. Taxes in TN are not 8.25% anymore. That’s only the taxes on food. For everything else, including necessary nonfood items, it’s 9.25%. Granted we don’t have an income tax but on top of that Davidson County, where I live, has raised property taxes. The illegal immigration population has grown in this part of town and along with it, crime. Property values are going down as much from that as from the housing bubble… you can’t sell property for what it’s worth when there’s a high crime level. The crime rates make insurance bills go up whether you’ve been robbed or not because it’s based on probability from crime statistics. Now, on top of that, gas prices have soared with the price of oil, food prices have soared from the combination of gas prices and alternative fuel demands. In addition, utility rates have risen 3 separate times in the last year while Bredeson is going to spend almost a billion on the Governor’s mansion for an underground dining hall.
A quart of Florida Orange Juice isn’t processed in Florida. It’s processed in California. Don’t ask me why? Ask the Florida Orange Juice producers. I found this out from a truck driver who has transported oranges to California for processing.
The credit crunch is another part of it. How many of you remember Bank of America and their pandering to the illegal population? Well, guess who gets to pay for all the illegals defaulting on their credit bills? We do, through a raise in interests to make up what they can put into write-offs. The same goes for any credit card company that jumped onto that bandwagon.
It’s a sad case of the right hand and left hand not knowing what the other is doing and accounting for that in their own doings. Everybody involved says it’s just a slight increase and shouldn’t hurt all that much but one has to wonder how many slight increases can be handled before they accumulate into huge increases spread out in a number of different ways. But no one group is responsible for the whole so they just shrug it off like they’re not to blame.
But it all adds up to a nightmare for the average working family, doesn’t it?
January 11th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Steph, Tobacco tax increase. Stupidity to the max. Every person in Tennessee is within two hours of all the states which borders us and all are 62 Cents cheaper than our state.
I did notice that they have stopped the searching cars entering the state now, I guess they figured out that spending $100.00 to survail us to save $3.00 in lost taxes is a futile use of our tax money. I also have read that the pols are wailing because they have lost all the revenue that cigarette taxes was to gain. Go figure, especially, when they have outlawed smoking in any public place.
Just how ignorant are politicians?
January 11th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Ummm… politics is the only job for which they are qualified dumb?
January 12th, 2008 at 2:34 am
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