I have tried and will continue to try to avoid overt political commentary on this blog. Perhaps at some point in the future I will create a separate blog. That way I can espouse my conservative views so that my liberal friends won't have to wade through the racism, intentionally starved children, guns, naked greed and general mean spiritedness to get to simple family news and pictures of the Tater.
That said, I think that the recent mortgage crisis is a political mess that affects even the least political citizens. In other words, we can't hide from it, no matter how detached we might think we are. The financial tendrils of the mortgage industry are everywhere. The fallout is going to be everywhere, too. (In case you were wondering, casual reader, the devaluation mess and resultant bailout are NOT fallout. No, the fallout is in the mail. We ain't suffered it yet.)
Anyhow, I cannot for the life of me understand why it is that we allowed Congress to ramrod this bailout through so quickly. It was bound to be full of pork, special interest money, and more. What is unconscionable to me is that not only is it full of the aforementioned, it also allows for the FURTHER devaluation of mortgages through re-negotiation and debt forgiveness. Why would we give organizations like ACORN a piece of the bailout when it is the practices of this and similar organizations that played such a large role in what necessitated the bailout in the first place? Michelle Malkin's blog has a very good article on this issue here.
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