Seems to have worked out.

It depends on which politician is lying to you.

The plain fact of the matter is that you can not buy your way out of debt. It's what I like to call a negative income. Housing won't save us but it will keep the rain off of our heads! 

Everyone trying to fix to much taht should be left alone.

Vote your conscious. I will.

We are in desperate need of a changing of the guard....

Not enough time to cover all of that, but jobs and wages are a major issue.  The middle class has all but disappeared, and our recovery was built on money created out of thin air.  We've become a debt obsessed society that wants instant gratification.  Our leadership is terrible, and we have billions to spend on the military and prison complexes, but not a dime to spare to ensure schools can provide a quality education.  We're in an ugly downward spiral.

Winston, I think we're in a recovery due to the billions spent, otherwise we would have crashed and burned.  I'm a Republican so you should see that I'm being objective.

You have hit on something here Winston Heverly . Housing cannot save us, since it is wholly dependent on a robust economy first with jobs to drive the housing demand and banks willing to loan money. Which came first? The house, or the people capable of paying for it?