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Unbelievable: Houston will pay your Visa Bill!

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rbell

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Well...when you start paying one bill for irresponsible people, where do you stop?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6277344.html

Houston, TX, will now pay the credit card bills of Po folk.

This is what you get when you decide that people shouldn't be held responsible for their decisions...and when you manufacture a Constitutional "Right" to everything you want.


People of Houston, Texas: If you don't get rid of the idiots that came up with this plan, then you deserve whatever financial calamity hits your city.

What a bunch of dummies.

Full disclosure: Years ago, I was stupid and rang up several thousand dollars in debt. I paid it off myself...every penny. Lesson learned...without my stealing tax dollars. And I'll be blunt here: anyone who will allow public funds to be used to pay off their credit card debt is a freeloader and a parasite...and in my opinion, a thief.
 
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"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." --Presbyterian minister William J.H. Boetcker (1873-1962)
 
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rbell said:
Full disclosure: Years ago, I was stupid and rang up several thousand dollars in debt. I paid it off myself...every penny. Lesson learned...without my stealing tax dollars. And I'll be blunt here: anyone who will allow public funds to be used to pay off their credit card debt is a freeloader and a parasite...and in my opinion, a thief.
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Yea, you worked hard and long, no doubt. Now, how irritating that someone else would get a free pass. I'm sorry, but this sounds like jealousy, plain and simple.

BTW, I live in Houston, maybe I can get me some of that "free" money! The problem is, I don't owe Visa anything!
 
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"Houston, we have a problem, I can't pay for my t.v." I don't owe Visa anything but with a plan like this I could owe a bunch real quick. My wife has been wanting a new HD 64" TV to watch football games with for quite a while now.
 
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rbell said:
Well...when you start paying one bill for irresponsible people, where do you stop?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6277344.html

Houston, TX, will now pay the credit card bills of Po folk.

This is what you get when you decide that people shouldn't be held responsible for their decisions...and when you manufacture a Constitutional "Right" to everything you want.


People of Houston, Texas: If you don't get rid of the idiots that came up with this plan, then you deserve whatever financial calamity hits your city.

What a bunch of dummies.

Full disclosure: Years ago, I was stupid and rang up several thousand dollars in debt. I paid it off myself...every penny. Lesson learned...without my stealing tax dollars. And I'll be blunt here: anyone who will allow public funds to be used to pay off their credit card debt is a freeloader and a parasite...and in my opinion, a thief.
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I agree with the premise of your post for the most part. I would not consider it theivery, though. If someone you vote for gives you back some money they took from you in the first place, it can't be considered theivery. You have to remember, the theivery is the taxation on the people which allows this to happen in the first place...they have too much money on hand at the tax payer's expense. I would be elated to receive back some of my money from the years and years of paying taxes.
 
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sag38

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Auburn football to be specific. Those women and their football. I wonder if the stimuls package will pay for a new t.v.?
 
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rbell

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dragonfly said:
Yea, you worked hard and long, no doubt. Now, how irritating that someone else would get a free pass. I'm sorry, but this sounds like jealousy, plain and simple.
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How 'bout running outside and letting the grownups talk, hmm?
 
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dragonfly

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rbell said:
How 'bout running outside and letting the grownups talk, hmm?
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Stop it young man, you're going to hurt my feelings. BTW, I believe I was seventeen years old when you were born. So, maybe you need to take your own advice.
 
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rbell

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Dragonfly, if you have nothing substantive to offer but attacks, how 'bout letting this thread get back to the original purpose?


Back to the OP...when does it stop? When you begin to pay the credit card bills of poor people...do you really have any moral high ground to allow people's self-imposed consequences to catch up with them?
 
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dragonfly said:
Yea, you worked hard and long, no doubt. Now, how irritating that someone else would get a free pass. I'm sorry, but this sounds like jealousy, plain and simple.

BTW, I live in Houston, maybe I can get me some of that "free" money! The problem is, I don't owe Visa anything!
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1 Timothy 5:8
(8) But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.


 
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http://bonehead.lerman.biz/CreditCrunch.html
Houston Planned to Pay Off Debts Of First Time House Seekers To Artificially Boost Their Credit Scores
Because it worked so well with sub-prime mortgage lending
Houston, Texas, Mayor, Bill White, has dropped plans for the city to pay off some of the debts of first-time home buyers as a way to artificially raise their credit ratings so banks can be fooled into providing them home mortgages. But dropped only after a loud public outcry ensued.

Maybe using the money for education so some intelligence might find its way into government might be a more appropriate use of all their spare money.

Why did they think this was a good idea?

The Nobel laureate level economic experts which make up Houston City government have decided that banks are being too tough on people and should have lower lending standards. So reverting to fraud and subterfuge to put banks at higher economic risk is apparently justifiable.

"We don’t talk to them about this unless their credit score is pretty close ... "
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6277344.html

Councilwoman Pam Holm waved a thick stack of e-mails from angry residents.
“I do not understand how we can ever justify spending taxpayer dollars to pay somebody’s credit card,” she said. “I don’t understand how it can be even considered to come up. I am truly embarrassed. I think it shows poor leadership.”
National outrage

Kris Errickson, a stay-at-home mom from northwest Houston, appeared before council to voice her indignation.
“This proposal is a slap in the face for the average Joe who is trying to get ahead,” Errickson said. “The government should not punish taxpayers and bail out those who cannot buy homes.”
Errickson said later that she and her family moved recently from the Heights to a less-expensive home near Timbergrove. “We adjusted our living so we could afford to live in a house,” she said.
“If you can’t afford it, and you can’t qualify, then you shouldn’t have it,” she said.
Councilwoman Anne Clutterbuck said news of the plan had hit a nerve across the country.
“Giving people the ability to increase their credit score artificially because we’re allowing them to pay off their credit cards is exactly what got us into this (national economic) crisis in the first place,” she said.
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Let's thank God that there are people in Houston that have good Godly common sense!
 
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rbell said:
Dragonfly, if you have nothing substantive to offer but attacks, how 'bout letting this thread get back to the original purpose?


Back to the OP...when does it stop? When you begin to pay the credit card bills of poor people...do you really have any moral high ground to allow people's self-imposed consequences to catch up with them?
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Show me one posting where I attacked someone.
 
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dragonfly said:
Show me one posting where I attacked someone.
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dragonfly said:
Yea, you worked hard and long, no doubt. Now, how irritating that someone else would get a free pass. I'm sorry, but this sounds like jealousy, plain and simple.
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