Comments on: Obama to Send Approximately an Additional 34,000 Troops to Afghanistan; Why Not Use Them to Fix Housing Instead? http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2009/12/01/obama-send-thirty-thousand-troops-afghanistan-bank-crisis/ Learn, Network, Invest Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:37:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tylerhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2009/12/01/obama-send-thirty-thousand-troops-afghanistan-bank-crisis/#comment-75888 Tyler Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:28:58 +0000 http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/?p=9047#comment-75888 The troops will come home as soon as we can bring them home without undoing everything that has been done in the last decade. Though personally I think that they never should have been over in that region anyway. -Tyler The troops will come home as soon as we can bring them home without undoing everything that has been done in the last decade. Though personally I think that they never should have been over in that region anyway. -Tyler

]]> By: Justin Piercehttp://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2009/12/01/obama-send-thirty-thousand-troops-afghanistan-bank-crisis/#comment-75883 Justin Pierce Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:03:40 +0000 http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/?p=9047#comment-75883 Wow, I don't want to pay my mortgage could you exact some force on my bank?On the other hand I really really don't want to pay my neigbors mortgage.As a former Marine of eight years, I don't think it in my best interest to send my brothers at arms into the financial institutions of this country to win me the privilage of paying other peoples mortgages. Here's an article I just saw today: http://www.housingzone.com/custombuilder/articleXml/LN1083768336.html?nid=2822&rid=10518479. Lenders are reluctant to give out loans that will help us jump start this economy. They can't loan out money if people aren't paying back the loans that are already out.What Marines are fighting for is freedom. Freedom to pursue happiness with the obligation to bare the consequences of your action. Wow, I don’t want to pay my mortgage could you exact some force on my bank?

On the other hand I really really don’t want to pay my neigbors mortgage.

As a former Marine of eight years, I don’t think it in my best interest to send my brothers at arms into the financial institutions of this country to win me the privilage of paying other peoples mortgages. Here’s an article I just saw today: http://www.housingzone.com/custombuilder/articleXml/LN1083768336.html?nid=2822&rid=10518479. Lenders are reluctant to give out loans that will help us jump start this economy. They can’t loan out money if people aren’t paying back the loans that are already out.

What Marines are fighting for is freedom. Freedom to pursue happiness with the obligation to bare the consequences of your action.

]]> By: Nick Johnsonhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2009/12/01/obama-send-thirty-thousand-troops-afghanistan-bank-crisis/#comment-75868 Nick Johnson Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:20:54 +0000 http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/?p=9047#comment-75868 Didn't Obama say when he got elected that he was going to be bringing troops home?I've got a better idea, why not send the banks officials and executives to Afghanistan unless to fight until they change their mind. Didn’t Obama say when he got elected that he was going to be bringing troops home?

I’ve got a better idea, why not send the banks officials and executives to Afghanistan unless to fight until they change their mind.

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