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user-inactivated  ·  1563 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: For the fourth straight month, roughly one-in-three Americans failed to make a full, on-time housing payment.

I had a thought but I lost it. Which is probably good, it was probably full of frustration and such. But I feel like our country is an old house that needed some paint on the walls, some floorboards replaced, and that plumbing problem in the kitchen taken care of. Only, for some reason, even though those were obvious and simple problems, we kept on putting them off because half the people would rather play X-Box and drink Red Bull all day and the other half are too busy coming home from one job and getting ready for another job, they don't have any time to worry about plumbing. Now the house has caught fire because there was a gas leak we didn't know about, but we totally would have found out about it if we had decided to tackle the problem in the kitchen and I don't know about anyone else, but it's pretty hard for me to figure out how we're supposed to repaint some walls if they're on fire now.