Simple. The government now controls our healthcare so it will simply control our housing too.

Kinda looks suspiciously like a quacking duck to me...

I can just imagine how high rent will be on the new apartment complexes being built to house those who were scammed by the AMA. Big money is going to stay big money regardless to how it affects the rest of us penny pinchers.

Sure you can blame the law that gives incentives to banks to loan to high risk people, but I prefer to shift that over to people who take bigger loans than they could afford.

That is like saying since the government allows you to buy a gun then they are equally responsible if you kill someone with it. I disagree. It is the individuals responsibility. You take out a loan it is your responsibility to pay it. No one else's.

As simplistic as my personal view is I think the basic ingredient missing that would help rectify our failing and struggling economy even with all of the elements still intact is a shift in ideology.

Money is the root to all evil. We "rich and poor" thrive on living above our means and we risk everything "love, money, families, security" to reach for our dreams whether they are lofty or meek in nature.

Selfishness and greed can take each and every one of us to our knees when the next player with higher aspirations comes along and pulls the rug out when we're so focused on our own schemes that we lose sight of the bigger picture.

As uncomfortable and old fashioned that sacrificing and living within our means can make us feel, instead of striving to be the number one top dog at any cost, I believe an equal balance could be reached with belt tightening starting from the top not the bottom.

Jeeeez.... it really doesn't take a freakin' genius to look around the globe and see how the masses are reacting when they've finally had enough of being royally f**ked by those in power over them.

Do those in power here at home really think they will be able to prevent the tide from rising when nature finally takes it course and all hell breaks loose?

America is a combustible melting pot with a lid that's been primed and ready to explode for decades. The youth of this generation have minds of their own and there are more of those who don't seem to place much faith or respect in their elders than those that do.

It's just a matter of time before our country... well... let me just say that I don't see things moving on the tolerant and inclusive track that is being claimed we're all venturing forward on from where I sit in my tiny corner of the earth.

That is like saying since the government allows you to buy a gun then they are equally responsible if you kill someone with it.

I disagree.

It is the individuals responsibility.

You take out a loan it is your responsibility to pay it. No one else's.

Please forgive my contrary stance it is not meant to offend... but I do not see anything in our country as an entitlement for the working class. There are absolutely no handouts. None of us are receiving anything we are not giving up something else to get. And we can change the way things are if they aren't working for the majority who takes a stand and voices/votes in a new era.

Silly girl, don't you see? In our new entitlement society, no one has to work. Working class and hard work is a thing of the past. One just has to apply for what they want and they better damm sure get it. It's trickle up poverty.

Getting back to the original topic ...

What I see going on in the USA is the promotion of a bad philosophy about home ownership.

Way too many Americans treat the buying of a house the same way that they treat the buying of an automobile. They want to be able to trade in their current model for a newer one every few years.

It is questionable if own the building but definitely not the land upon which it sits witnessed by the fact you must pay property taxes. Failure to pay those taxes will result in the state seizing the land and all else not easily removable upon it. So unless you can restore a right of ownership above that of fee simple, then it is just an illusion.

And health care is not expensive, medical care is. There is a world of difference. Most people are under the illusion that to be healthy requires medicine when in actuality it is just the opposite.

If you want to be healthy, drop the medicines and restore the body to it's natural health. All it takes is diet, pure natural wholesome raw vegetables. You can even grow them right in your back yard at the fraction of the cost of the store. The taste and health benefits are just beyond description.

Do even better, refuse to pay the penalty and fight for your rights. But neglecting health is not cheaper, it just leads to medicine.

That is not the cause, just the effect. It is just another excuse by the masses to keep from accepting responsibility for their actions. They are under the illusion that a small group of people somehow have a magical hold on a dominantly bigger mass. That is only possible when that dominantly bigger mass refuses to accept responsibility for their own actions.

To get to the cause you must go to the source, the ignorant masses. Only when a sufficient quantity of the ignorant accept knowledge will things truly start to change.

Last time that number was approximately 17%, but then they deemed it necessary to use force to counter violence. Currently that number is projected at approximately 20%, but it has not become necessary to use force, but with the increased violence of the government, who knows. So either one of two things must occur. First, either the government will increase the level of violence that there is no option but force, not the good choice but seldom is the choice of government good. Or, second the percentage of people willing to take peaceful action must increase dramatically, don't need a majority but enough to effect change, not Odumbo change, real change.

What about the current bubble? And all those pins.

Good news, I would think that with the overabundance of signs that there will be no good news should rest on most peoples minds, but that wont happen, everything will just keep coasting along until the big boom and then everyone will just act surprised, the old who would have know syndrome.

And just what sellers market are you referring to? The last sellers market was the 2005 bubble that so ceremoniously exploded in 2008.

Well for sure about Odumbo being hand picked, he told a friend back in 1998 he would be president, not may, would.

But Odumbocare was his price of admission, the price to be paid to be dictator. And he has not disappointed.

Money is not the root of all evil, never has been, never will be. Ignorance is the root of all evil. Since only knowledge eradicates ignorance, it is our duty and moral obligation to educate ourselves, as well as the masses around us.

It is the lack of selfishness that is the problem, not the abundance. That goes back to ignorance, the ignorance of not understanding selfishness, to mind ones own affairs. The ignorant are too busy minding everyone else's business while theirs is in complete disarray.

Again, it is the ignorance of the masses that keeps them the perfect little victims, so easily shucked like a prime oyster. It is those same ignorant masses that bow before those that have no authority over them than that granted by the ignorant. It is only with the consent of the ignorant that any authority is granted at all. It is this ignorance that has granted the public "servant" the illusion of being the master over those they serve.

But you are right on one thing, it is but a matter of time, a time now so advanced that the inevitable must occur before corrections can be made. And the inevitable will not be pretty, not will it be pleasant, but it will be.

This country is but like the Titanic, some have seen the iceberg, the masses are not aware. It is too late to turn or to stop, the only thing remaining is the disaster and collecting the survivors. Too few lifeboats, too many too late to be saved.

That's the definition of entitlement, somebody gets, somebody gives. Those that have, give, those that don't get, but everybody becomes somehow enslaved.

Yes there are handouts, otherwise the system would collapse of it's own weight.

Luckily I live in a state where my property taxes are extremely affordable. So as long as I keep paying them the land on which my house sits is also deeded to be debt free.

Having been raised a vegetarian and naturalist then evolving into a meat eater and chemical user later in life I know about both ends of the spectrum when it pertains to physical health destruction and upkeep.

And I can assure you there are some physical conditions that CANNOT be handled simply with natural remedies.

So I appreciate your dogmatic take on these subjects but I'll stick to what I know works for me individually.