At the moment I like Sanders. He's one of the few senators, Democrat or Republican, who has the balls to tell the truth about the housing market. He says it isn't the government's job to bail individuals or corporations out of loans that shouldn't have been made in the first place. This is a huge issue for me. Any congressman or senator who votes to spend my money buying anyone a house they couldn't afford, or bailing any company out for making loans to people with no verifiable income and little or no money down, will lose my respect. My own congressman, Bruce Braley, thinks the government should "do something" about falling house prices to prevent mortgage foreclosures. I do not. Hopefully Sanders can convince more of his colleagues that an adjustment is necessary and the lessons it'll teach investors is something valuable that you can only get in the school of real-world decision-making.
Oh crap. The entirety of suburbia and nearly every middle class white person's housing and lifestyle over the last 50 years was not just subsidized but created by the US government. That is why there was a modicum of 'prosperity', angus. Please don't disrupt Keyensianism with your prune-faced resentful 'individualist morality'. I know you think it makes sense, but the odd thing is that macroeconomically and anyway for most people - it doesnt.
Oh and:
1) Whitehouse
2) Sanders
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