[No longer] Joke(s)

[Kermit]

"I am sorry your thread got hi-jacked..."

No problem, I am a notorious hi-jacker myself....

[Andyc]

AndyC, should the feds provide assistance to hurricane sandy victims who have no where to go,no shelter , no food, or should they be left to fend for themselves?

What do we tell a college kid who is trying to make a better life but does not have 10,000 in cash to pay the tuition every semester? It would take him 20 years of burger flipping to save that kind of money.

Or a young couple who want to buy a house but need a little help with a down payment?

Of course the government should help when catastrophes hit. But we shouldn't be helping people out by giving them phones.

Tell the college kid to either get good grades and get a scholarship, go to a community college or get a loan.

Tell the young couple to keep renting and save for the down payment. Seems to me the whole mortgage mess was perpetuated by loaning money to people who couldn't afford to own a home in the first place.