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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	You are Totally Over-reacting
	Date:	2/20/2009 1:13:50 AM

I am not looking down my nose at anyone who didn't go to college. College is not an indication of how smart you are -- only that you have completed a prescribled course in learning, which is generally accepted to make one qualified for better paying jobs. Are there millionaires who didn't go to college? Of course. Even Billionaires, I'm sure. And there are a lot of people in the trades that make a very decent living, because they are being paid for their expertise, which they obtained from OJT.

A lot of people living and struggling to make payments on their doublewide probably shouldn't have a house and should be renting. Not that there is anything wrong with renting. Lots of people struggling in low income jobs did not have the foresight or the ambition to either get an education or get the training needed for anything more than a minimum wage job. I'm sorry if that is offensive, but it is shown to be true that people with an "education" make more money and have access to better jobs.

So, I didn't mean to insult anyone's Daddy (my grandfather FYI grew up in the Tennesee Hills, had a 3rd grade education, and managed to acquire a 500 acre farm which he worked until he retired from farming); I'm not being elitist, but I'm just not that sorry for people that take on payments they can't afford with no back up plan (i.e. that would be savings) And I don't want to see them bailed out any more than I want to see the people who bought $2M houses they couldn't afford either. And I'm rather tired of hearing from those that walk around with their hard luck story, hoping someone will give them a handout.
Life is hard. Deal with it.