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	<title>Comments on: Empty McMansion #7</title>
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		<title>By: llking</title>
		<link>http://www.arcadiahousingblog.com/2008/03/12/empty-mcmansion-7/comment-page-1/#comment-727</link>
		<dc:creator>llking</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you can afford this home, you should be able to hire a personal chauffeur.  Let him/her deal with parking your park. ha.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you can afford this home, you should be able to hire a personal chauffeur.  Let him/her deal with parking your park. ha.</p>
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		<title>By: SavedbyGrace</title>
		<link>http://www.arcadiahousingblog.com/2008/03/12/empty-mcmansion-7/comment-page-1/#comment-723</link>
		<dc:creator>SavedbyGrace</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You would think...</description>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whoever buys this house, will have to redo the garage entrance or suffer trashing their lawn about 7 days after purchase.  Who are these people who design houses like this?  You would expect a bit more if you are paying over $1M, don&#039;t you think?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whoever buys this house, will have to redo the garage entrance or suffer trashing their lawn about 7 days after purchase.  Who are these people who design houses like this?  You would expect a bit more if you are paying over $1M, don&#8217;t you think?</p>
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		<title>By: SavedbyGrace</title>
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		<dc:creator>SavedbyGrace</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Peter - Thank you for doing your part in writing to your representative about our economic condition. I too wrote to my congressman several months ago and just received a reply last week. Unfortunately, the reply addressed only the Stimulus Package itself, but mentioned nothing of the housing crisis, offshoring, inflation or bailing out of the banks. I specifically asked about those things and made my opinions known.

The Fed&#039;s announcement of injecting $200billion into the markets yesterday is a direct bailout of bankers with your money. If you think that&#039;s wrong, write to your congress representative!

For those of you who haven&#039;t done so, I encourage you to join us and write to your representative. You can start here: https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peter &#8211; Thank you for doing your part in writing to your representative about our economic condition. I too wrote to my congressman several months ago and just received a reply last week. Unfortunately, the reply addressed only the Stimulus Package itself, but mentioned nothing of the housing crisis, offshoring, inflation or bailing out of the banks. I specifically asked about those things and made my opinions known.</p>
<p>The Fed&#8217;s announcement of injecting $200billion into the markets yesterday is a direct bailout of bankers with your money. If you think that&#8217;s wrong, write to your congress representative!</p>
<p>For those of you who haven&#8217;t done so, I encourage you to join us and write to your representative. You can start here: <a href="https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml" rel="nofollow">https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml</a></p>
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		<title>By: Peter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wrote this to my Senators about the upcoming bailout program:


Please record my request not to bail out banks and 
mortgage holders. Doing so would be a punch in the face to 
those of us who have lived in studio apartments, put off 
having children, and suffered through offshoring and 
massive H1 labor workers flooding our industry and driving 
rates down. We have worked hard and saved and do not 
deserve to be robbed in order to pay gamblers, scammers, 
and idiots who made bank loans the bankers knew were 
faulty and took out loans on homes they could not afford. 
While these people lived in their McMansions, most 
Americans have remained honest and hard-working and lived 
in much more modest abodes. Rewarding these irresponsible 
people is as simple as rewarding the grasshopper in the 
parable of the ant and the grasshopper. Even more to 
understand is the US Government cannot hold up the housing 
prices. With an average AGI of about $55K, the US average 
housing of $210K is not affordable. Either inflation has 
to stop, pay has to jump, or housing has to drop. For 
those of us who have worked hard and saved for almost two 
decades, we have waited patiently for housing prices to 
return from the stratosphere. As our representative, 
please continue to work for the US Government to act 
responsibly and not steal from the taxpayer to reward rich 
bankers and irresponsible gamblers. 

I do support programs like the Economic Stimulus package 
you passed as I believe inflation is a much more fair tax 
than income tax. I know personally people and companies 
who have moved their accounts offshore as a way to avoid 
paying income tax. One classic example is Accenture as 
they are the prime contractor for the IRS and the 
Department of Homeland Security! In fact, I believe income 
tax evasion is the driving force behind illegal 
immigration and income tax avoidance is the primary reason 
for offshoring. Fair, across-the-board inflation measures 
like the Economic Stimulus package reward all Americans 
and are much better than handout/bailout packages targeted 
at select companies or individuals. Inflation packages do levy 
an additional tax on anyone with savings but are better than 
income tax which rewards offshore companies and far better 
than stealing from taxpayers and rewarding irresponsible and 
often knowingly fraudulent people. 

In summary, I request you vote Nay on any programs to 
reward rich bankers or gamblers who took out mortgages 
they could not afford.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wrote this to my Senators about the upcoming bailout program:</p>
<p>Please record my request not to bail out banks and<br />
mortgage holders. Doing so would be a punch in the face to<br />
those of us who have lived in studio apartments, put off<br />
having children, and suffered through offshoring and<br />
massive H1 labor workers flooding our industry and driving<br />
rates down. We have worked hard and saved and do not<br />
deserve to be robbed in order to pay gamblers, scammers,<br />
and idiots who made bank loans the bankers knew were<br />
faulty and took out loans on homes they could not afford.<br />
While these people lived in their McMansions, most<br />
Americans have remained honest and hard-working and lived<br />
in much more modest abodes. Rewarding these irresponsible<br />
people is as simple as rewarding the grasshopper in the<br />
parable of the ant and the grasshopper. Even more to<br />
understand is the US Government cannot hold up the housing<br />
prices. With an average AGI of about $55K, the US average<br />
housing of $210K is not affordable. Either inflation has<br />
to stop, pay has to jump, or housing has to drop. For<br />
those of us who have worked hard and saved for almost two<br />
decades, we have waited patiently for housing prices to<br />
return from the stratosphere. As our representative,<br />
please continue to work for the US Government to act<br />
responsibly and not steal from the taxpayer to reward rich<br />
bankers and irresponsible gamblers. </p>
<p>I do support programs like the Economic Stimulus package<br />
you passed as I believe inflation is a much more fair tax<br />
than income tax. I know personally people and companies<br />
who have moved their accounts offshore as a way to avoid<br />
paying income tax. One classic example is Accenture as<br />
they are the prime contractor for the IRS and the<br />
Department of Homeland Security! In fact, I believe income<br />
tax evasion is the driving force behind illegal<br />
immigration and income tax avoidance is the primary reason<br />
for offshoring. Fair, across-the-board inflation measures<br />
like the Economic Stimulus package reward all Americans<br />
and are much better than handout/bailout packages targeted<br />
at select companies or individuals. Inflation packages do levy<br />
an additional tax on anyone with savings but are better than<br />
income tax which rewards offshore companies and far better<br />
than stealing from taxpayers and rewarding irresponsible and<br />
often knowingly fraudulent people. </p>
<p>In summary, I request you vote Nay on any programs to<br />
reward rich bankers or gamblers who took out mortgages<br />
they could not afford.</p>
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