Is it just me or is our government rewarding pour buying choices?

I agree with you on principle. But can you imagine the manpower needed to go through all of these foreclosures and determine which "deserve" help and which don't? And where would the line be drawn? Some families are able to live on meager salaries and so they make buying choices that the average person (with the average person's spending habits) wouldn't be able to afford. See, there's no black and white here, just shades of grey that make it impossible to put down reasonable standards here.

Someone asked the president this very same question a few days ago. He likened it to saving a person from a fire when they were smoking in bed. Even though they shouldn't have smoked a cigarette in bed, we should still save them from burning alive. They're going to assist these people for the greater good, and hope the situation teaches them a lesson on living within one's means.

It's not so much rewarding poor buying choices as it is creating an unfair economic system.

The government doesn't have any money of its own. It has to either collect taxes or borrow and collect even more taxes later for repayment of the debts with interest. Which means that one way or another the government is taking money from prudent, hardworking savers and giving it to imprudent and careless spenders.

And this kind of thing will make everyone worse off. Because the prudent hardworking savers will loose some of their motivation to work hard when they aren't allowed to keep a fair share of their money. And imprudent spenders won't learn much from their experience. And many of them might continue to borrow and spend just as imprudently as before.

If you paid any attention the press conference during which BHO talked about the housing relief program, you'd know that the focus of the program would NOT be people who bit off more than they could chew and would instead focus on people who's mortgages were underwater as a result of the plummeting housing market and foreclosures in their neighborhoods.

Yes. Basically it's a question of people with money sharing it or not. Depends which side of the tracks you're on.

No I think people should learn how to spell the word POOR before they try to have intellectual conversations. Its only 4 letters, how do you manage to screw that one up?

Now go POUR yourself some dummy antidote and go back to school.

Q: "Is it just me or is our government rewarding pour buying choices?"

A: Is it just me or does answering this question reward pour (sic) spelling choices?