Asking If Government Should Help

Somewhere down the line I didn't think I needed to be told that the day before New Year's is the worst day of the year to ask someone, especially a homeless someone, if they'd like to kill themselves. So imagine being struck when someone points out that a big-wig wrapped up their last Friday of the year with a Forum depicting a man - with sheers - smiling and trimming a tree in front of his "Subprime-ensnared" home. Yep, smiling and trimming; subprimed and smiling.

In their Forum, the editors of Florida's Orlando Sentinel (OS) asked, "Should government help homeowners caught in the subprime tangle?" And I thought, now shouldn't that dude in the cartoon be frowning or did the OS fail the brain-paper connection when it chose its OP ART that day? So I figured, maybe they had a lot of happy-homeowner letters for me to read but I was wrong. The peaceful-looking pOP ART dude defied the responses printed: What OS published was . . . For the rest of the story, see The Poinciana Crane^TM local blog.

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