Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 24, 2011

QUICK! Cut it down!

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, would it still crush the snot out of everything it landed on?

1.1 million last year. I hear predictions of 1.3-1.5 million this year. GW’s heart was in the right place when he wanted to get more working class people into homes, even if it didn’t make economic sense…or is that cents?

Having your heart in the right place is no substitute for having your brain make the decisions.

His heart may have been in the right place but his head was up his keister.

DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE MAKING NEW HOMES IF NO ONE AN AFFORD TO BUY THEM

OUCH. There’s a joke that hurts. What’s that they say? “There’s a little truth behind every just kidding.”

I’m with you, bergamot. I was simply going to put: Yikes!

Shouldn’t it be an “after”closure?

And some of them may actually be legal.

The Grapes of the Wrath of Greed and stupidity.

Okie was another word everyone forgot about in History class.

Why make new ones when we have empty ones? Can’t we just move the empty ones. They’re empty they should be light.

A good joke always reminds you of another… Gary Larson had a “Far Side” cartoon with a giant tree on its side, and Dad, chainsaw in hand, is pointing out to little Jimmy, “…and this ring shows where the old fellow survived a forest fire…”

”Ooh, look at all those toothpicks!”

(Gotta see the Big Picture…)

We don’t even use our natural resources ourselves. Lots of those trees go to Japan.

,,,,, “or make 500,000 pairs of chopsticks.”

freeholder1 Yes, it should. So, don’t you think that if you behead someone you’d be giving them another head. Bejeweled?

You can’t get a loan unless you prove that you really don’t need it!

Every time I hear about foreclosures, I remember when banks used to have loan officers whose job was to review all loan aplications, decide who was a good risk, and turn down the others.

If those precautions had still been in place, I doubt if we’d have all these foreclosures.

Major harvest of redwoods was for grape stakes. (then of course those high value decks and fences- pluse hot tubs) Considering it only takes 2,000 years to grow one to maturity, what would be the “sustained yield” model to replace what we cut? Oops! We blew that one.

In Florida it would have been 5!

So my dual grapes of wrath reference finally got to SOMEBODY, dtrout!

NightShade09 said, about 4 hours ago

Every time I hear about foreclosures, I remember when banks used to have loan officers whose job was to review all loan aplications, decide who was a good risk, and turn down the others.

If those precautions had still been in place, I doubt if we’d have all these foreclosures.

Which is why the Great Plains states mostly don’t have a lot of foreclosures, nor a lot of problems getting loans. Most of the problems are in a handful of states–especially Nevada, California, Arizona and Florida. Which is where the home finance markets went craziest in the bubble.

Cut all the Redwood Trees down except one so that people can see it.

You’re a sap if you believe ANY of this!!

didn’t RR say something to the effect, you only need a few trees by the road so people can stop and take a picture… ?

bmonk, One of my relatives was approved for a loan with payments of $1400 a month, with $12K down.

She coudn’t make the payments, so she lost the house.

She moved into an apartment for $775 a month and couldn’t make the rent.

So what loan officer figured out that she could pay almost twice as much as she could afford? Something fishy, I think.

Let’s not forget RR’s warnings about the worst environmental threat of all: TREE POLLUTION!

Wiley, right on the money as usual. Great social commentary folks.

But I thought we all have the right to government subsidized housing?!?!