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To: Perspective who wrote (114633)	4/3/2008 6:08:36 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Respond to of 306849

Thanks. I'm lazy, so other than a few intro remarks I pasted the whole thing into an email to Shaddegg/McCain and Kyl (not that any of them will care, the swine).

To: Perspective who wrote (114633)	4/3/2008 7:24:32 PM
From: Roads End	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

I just did the same.... I just read this afternoon of the bill rushing through the senate designed to bail out home builders and by extension, their banks. I strongly opposed this action for many reasons but ultimately it renders down to a moral one. Handing out money to the very people that gamed the housing market profitably for the past 5 or 6 years strikes me as immoral. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve spent 30 plus years in housing industries, particularly forest products, and have suffered many harsh economic down turns. Every one of them was painful and there were casualties as a result. There were survivors in every down turn typically the diligent, conservative, and responsible. For the most part the ones not surviving deserved to fail due to their poor business practices and excessive risk taking. Please do not go down this path. Rewarding profitable enterprises that find themselves on hard times penalizes the responsible and rewards the irresponsible and is quite simply immoral.