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Originally Posted by Edward Anglin
Watch how many times something bad happens to someone and we Americans say "you deserve better."
Extreme Home Makeover is full of hard-luck stories of peopel who supposedly "deserve" a new house because tragedy befell them.
Deserve? Really? How stupid is that?
Finances are unemotional. Bad decisions lead to bad lives. Good decisions lead to better lives.
None of us "deserve" anything simply because we are American. None of us "deserve" what our neighbor has.
Get your butt to work. Quit whining about what everybody else has. Stop envying.
Sheesh.
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The side of it I see is this...
Hey... you are in bad shape... a nice big fancy house that you probably can't afford to even heat & cool is exactly what you need.
Bigger stuff is the answer
Fancier stuff is the answer.
In all probability they have to at least pay a tax on the dollar amount that their property was improved. How many of them can even afford that?
I wonder how many people that show eventually puts into ruin?
They can come to my house. Put solar panels up, drill me a well with a solar powered pump, mend my fences.
Then again... I'll do it myself. Thanks anyway.