{"id":161,"date":"2008-10-24T15:33:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T22:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2010-05-04T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T06:35:00","slug":"should-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Should, Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was  deliberately vague in my last journal because none of us are ever exempt from  thinking  about our choices. But what brought on this thought process  was the  chain of events which led up to our current economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Should  I buy a house when I have no down payment and can&#8217;t really  afford it?<br \/>\nShould  I sell this house when I know this family can&#8217;t afford it?<br \/>\nShould I  lend someone money for a home, when I know they will  eventually lose it?<br \/>\nShould  I design deceptive and predatory mortgages whose payments are  likely to  double?<\/p>\n<p>Should I repackage bad loans into securities, then rate  them AAA (the  highest rating), just because there is no regulation?<br \/>\nShould  I run a hedge fund based entirely on these crappy investments?<br \/>\nShould  I take the money and run when it all starts to go bad?<br \/>\nShould I beg  for the government to bail my company out, when I caused  the problem?<\/p>\n<p>Should  I keep shorting stock when the market starts to crash, even  thought it  makes everything worse?<br \/>\nShould I start laying off employees, to  prepare for a recession?<br \/>\nShould I scale back my spending, in case I  lose my job?<br \/>\nShould I point fingers at everyone but myself?<\/p>\n<p>If  you take no responsibility for your actions, then you are part of  the  problem. If you could put yourself in the shoes of a CEO, and  honestly  say you would never &#8220;take advantage&#8221; of anyone or any  situation just to  make money, then you are a better person than I am.  IMHO, the entire  psychology of humanity needs an overhaul.  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/redvsblue.com\/assets\/images\/emoticons\/smiley3.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was deliberately vague in my last journal because none of us are ever exempt from thinking about our choices. But what brought on this thought process was the chain of events which led up to our current economic crisis. Should I buy a house when I have no down payment and can&#8217;t really afford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.princessnybor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}