I want you to take a look at this video and tell me what you see wrong.
It's ok, I'll wait......
Now, what do you notice?
Well first off, the couple who're having a "mortgage crisis" live in a nice big home. Their kitchen is nicer then mine, a fact my wife is pretty pissed about.
But take a look around and listen to what they have to say. The woman, Dori, lost her job and they didn't plan on that. That's ok, I thought, because some people simply don't plan on such things. But watch and listen. In the opening scene, they are in the kitchen, which is a pretty nice one by my standards. At the 12 second mark, look in the background. Why that's at least a 42" flat panel TV. At the 16 second mark, take a look now. Why Dori has a nice laptop AND a computer monitor behind it. At the 20 second mark, listen to what Dori says. "We have a mortgage payment, car payment, we just adopted a baby". Well I've got all that, except the baby part, and if my wife and I were to lose our jobs tomorrow, we'd still be able to live comfortably. Granted, we'd have to make SOME cutbacks, but nothing to where our normal bills wouldn't get paid.
Then at the 40 second mark, CBS News claims that this family lost about $10,000 inside of a month. Yet, they don't say how. I know you're thinking the same thing I am: How do you lose $10,000 inside of a month?!?!!?
Then it gets to where you want to punch these people in the face.
Dori at the 42 second mark says "We had to take our 15 year old out of private school and put him in the public school system". "We're talking about selling a car". Wait what?!? Private school?? You expect me to feel sorry for you because your complete lack of planning on your part when your children go to private school? Private school is expensive. Everyone knows that. There are people out there, REAL people who are struggling, and CBS News decides to run this attempted sob story about how the "mortgage crisis" is effecting middle America.
But wait....it gets better..
At the 1:05 mark, they drop a bombshell.
"And that's not news to Dean and Dori. They're trying to sell their vacation home, because, while they saved for a rainy day, they never expected it to pour, or imagined a recession."
WHAT?!!? You have a FUCKING VACATION HOME and you expect hard working Americans to feel sorry for you? You expect your mortgage company to feel sorry for you? Fuck you! Sell your vacation home, sell your primary home and move into a fucking apartment.
Idiots. And it's people like this that have pushed everything towards a recession and the mortgage companies that were dumb enough to go along for the ride.
Then we get to hear from the husband, Dean. A real brain surgeon he is.
"It's a day of reckoning is what it is. You know, people have to realize that things aren't going to be perfect all the time."
But then these "poor people" are having to watch movies at home and *GASP* eat dinner at home! They can't go out to restaurants much anymore! The horror of it all!
Then Dori has the gall to bring up the "upcoming election year", insinuating that if the right person is elected, their problems with mysteriously go away.
How's this Dori and Dean: Live below your fucking means.
Travis
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