Comments on: Mortgage Meltdown http://keckeley.com/2007/12/19/mortgage-meltdown/ Baby Boomer...Member Life 2.0...Wife, Mother, Grammie...Bicyclist...GoldWinger...Mensan...Girl Scout...Reader...Knitter...Rotarian Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:22:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gregory Holman http://keckeley.com/2007/12/19/mortgage-meltdown/#comment-345 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:12:51 +0000 http://keckeley.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/mortgage-meltdown/#comment-345 I know it’s from USA Today, but I think this article shows the other perspective on this is a lot of people who didn’t quite know what they were doing got themselves into home loans.

A bailout might help people in trouble (whether that’s deserved or not is a second question) but it seems like discipline and standards about how much home one can afford—and what kind of loans can be made—would be a more long-term solution, yo.

]]> By: Tammy http://keckeley.com/2007/12/19/mortgage-meltdown/#comment-343 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:04:28 +0000 http://keckeley.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/mortgage-meltdown/#comment-343 You know, I can tell these people where to find sympathy in the dictionary…

In my experience, frugality breeds creativity. Quit sitting on your ass waiting to be bailed out and get creative, people!

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