tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post3177657601929643956..comments2024-03-15T03:20:38.106-05:00Comments on Brains and Eggs: Tonight's #DemDebatePDiddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851660342241127485noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-65586293516298267402016-01-18T07:54:17.378-06:002016-01-18T07:54:17.378-06:00I don't think he's a gun nut, He's a ...I don't think he's a gun nut, He's a gun advocate, too much so for my comfort level as I have previously indicated, but that's a small disagreement I can stop having.<br /><br />"A lot of people" -- how many? what percentage?<br /><br />I married a mortgage lender, and I can say without equivocation that if, during the time period that the housing bubble overinflated, anyone bought a second home <b>on credit</b> -- for any reason be it spec or vacay or WTF-ever, and irrespective of their FICO score -- then they are far <a href="http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2015/04/30/does-it-make-sense-to-buy-a-second-home" rel="nofollow">more stupid than they are wealthy</a>, and they would have to be pretty fucking wealthy <i>even at a time</i> when mortgage lenders were playing fast and loose with the mortgagee income declarations.<br /><br />That's another analogy so far from reality that it's a digression far, far off the topic and the point.PDiddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05851660342241127485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-43120825190997604662016-01-17T23:11:02.628-06:002016-01-17T23:11:02.628-06:00Well, a "gun nut" within the Democratic ...Well, a "gun nut" within the Democratic Party. I'll caveat it that way.<br /><br />On the housing bubble, we'll disagree more, without me agreeing with Clinton.<br /><br />A lot of people were buying second homes as investments and other things, in addition to what I just mentioned.<br /><br />Do I feel sorry for people who bought homes as speculative investments while knowing what they were doing? Not tremendously.Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075757287807731373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-75410746096061455542016-01-17T12:29:58.066-06:002016-01-17T12:29:58.066-06:00We're beginning to disagree more and more ofte...We're beginning to disagree more and more often.<br /><br />I think your continued characterization of Sanders as a "gun nut" is getting to be a little unhinged. Gun culture is <b>never</b> going to revised in this country in our lifetimes -- to the extent that would perhaps mollify your disgust, anyway -- and any progress will incremental at best. Frothing ad hominem isn't helping.<br /><br />W/r/t to Clinton being partially correct, she's much less than halfway there. That's not good enough, and is made worse by all of the money she's taken from Wall Street.<br /><br />Seven million working families lost their homes, and one numbnuts in D-FW who figured out how to game the system does not make her one quarter-inch closer to being accurate.PDiddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05851660342241127485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-74255906585464801242016-01-17T11:28:09.716-06:002016-01-17T11:28:09.716-06:00On the housing bubble, though she could have put i...On the housing bubble, though she could have put it more subtly, and noted that the housing bubble started because of growing income inequality, nonetheless, unless one was poor enough to really not understand what was up, I think Clinton is at least partially right.<br /><br />When I was in the Metromess, I heard someone in line at a store say he had a house "purchased" on a so-called "liar's loan," and he explicitly said he was treating it like a large apartment.Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075757287807731373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-64253659882767287392016-01-17T11:24:16.712-06:002016-01-17T11:24:16.712-06:00See my update on my Friday piece, with Bernie'...See my update on my Friday piece, with Bernie's new flip-flop on gun suits. What's worse, a subtle Just.Another,Politician, like Clinton, or an unsubtle one, like Sanders?<br /><br />http://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2016/01/hillary-vs-bernie-on-singlepayer-gunnut.htmlGadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075757287807731373noreply@blogger.com