Here are topics being discussed in our home. Tell me what you think.
Is the bailout needed to save our economy or a horrible way to let banks off the hook?
Are you going to vote for someone who voted against your view of the bail out?
When you vote for President, is your vote for someone or is it really a vote against the other canidate?
When someone really ticks you off, do you tell them or just complain to your spouse/friends? Is one option better than the others?
When someone has had an event and hasn't invited you and then mentions it accidently and you either don't care or are actually happy that you weren't invited, is it better to ignore it or tell them that you weren't offended/didn't want to go?
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Glass Houses and Such
14 years ago
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Whoah, some tough questions. I'll take a stab at it:
Don't know too much about the bailout, but I think it's necessary.
I'm torn in this election, their plans for future economy is a big deal to me, but I'm not letting their position on the bailout affect my view on them, as many senators voted for it in despair.
Really not sure who to vote for, but it will most likely be to vote against the other guy.
If someone makes me mad, there are only two reasons I don't tell them. 1) I would get fired. 2)I would hurt their feelings enough that they might never come to church again.
If I find out I wasn't invited, I act like I knew about it (cuz technically now I do) and then ask if their party turned out the way they wanted, thus showing that it didn't bother me.
Do we get to have your answers??
I am going to look at the other candidates even the ones no one thinks have a chance. They will never have a chance if we do not take the chance to vote for them, if we feel they are the candidate for us.
I try to tell others if I can about the problems if it is possible not to make things worse. I tell my candidates right away, they need to know or they cannot fix the problem or issue. Tell them and tell them often.
If I am not invited, OH Well, it is not like everyone can go everywhere and only so many people can be invited to any one gathing anyway. I think if the person goes out of their way to make sure you know you were not invited then that is just mean and childish on their part. If you never come when invited then expect the invitations to stop, that is just common sense and not ment to be mean.
My thoughts right now are that I'm not sure how I feel.
I feel like my vote for several races are really votes against who I don't want. I'm not sure who is right about the bail out. I usually complain to my friends/Shawn when someone ticks me off, and I absolutely agree w/ Lisa that you shouldn't expect invites if you never say yes. But I still can't figure out what to do when someone accidently mentions an event that you didn't want to attend anyway. Is it worse to say that you really wouldn't hae gone anyway, or to ignore it and let them feel bad? I just don't know. that's why I'm asking you guys, because maybe I'll come to a consensus from all of you.......
Here are topics being discussed in our home. Tell me what you think.
Is the bailout needed to save our economy or a horrible way to let banks off the hook?
It's 100% needed.
The state of California can't float a bond issue, there are car dealerships going under nationwide because they can't get financing, and home sales that can't be processed because the banks won't approve loans to anyone with ANY risk of default. It's already spread internationally, and other countries are responding in kind.
The credit markets aren't something you can let fail. They take the entire economy with them.
Are you going to vote for someone who voted against your view of the bail out?
My guy voted for it, so it's a moot point.
When you vote for President, is your vote for someone or is it really a vote against the other canidate?
It's always for the better of the two.
When someone really ticks you off, do you tell them or just complain to your spouse/friends?
It depends. If they can get me fired, I usually do the latter. If not, generally the former.
Is one option better than the others?
If someone can harm you financially, the latter is usually the best route. If you don't need them for anything and you don't want the stress from it, telling them may prevent it from happening again.
When someone has had an event and hasn't invited you and then mentions it accidently and you either don't care or are actually happy that you weren't invited, is it better to ignore it or tell them that you weren't offended/didn't want to go?
Ignore it. There may be other reasons why you weren't invited that aren't about you.
Oh, I shoulda signed this.
Chris
The reason car dealerships are going under is their inability to make loans to people who cannot afford a car. If people who can afford a car come looking for a loan they will still get the loan even today. People who want to buy say a $20,000 car and are using their trade-in which they are $5000 upside down then yes the loans are no longer going through like before. You can only get a loan for the full value (or with a down payment) of the car. No more 120% or more loans and no loans at all if your FICO score is low. It is the way loans were given for years up until lately(last few years). Credit is not the way to build a business and that is why many are failing.
Loans were always hard to get up until the last few years, and it kept people who could not afford the loans from getting them. Home loans were made easier about 9 years ago, when the government told Freddie and Fannie to loosen up the rules for home loans so more people could get home that were not able to from poor credit. Now look, we should have kept the old rules and we would not be in this mess.
With all due respect, Lisa, that's not true at all.
The credit markets are frozen; there's no lending going on at all, and it's world wide.
The lack of credit is affecting businesses the world over, and good candidates with great credit still can't get loans.
Without the removal of all the questionable collateral from the books of the lending institutions, loans just will not happen.
The plummet of the dow over the last week was caused in large part by the lack of lending capital.
No business survives without credit today. Most of them are good candidates, and yet they're hurting.
Do remember that we aren't giving the banks money, we're purchasing assets that, once the credit markets and home markets are stable, may well be worth more than we paid for them.
Chris
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