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Freddie and Fannie: it's the Anglo Disease | 153 comments (153 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Freddie and Fannie: it's the Anglo Disease (4.00 / 9)

To underline your point about 'the majorities buying in', see these two graphs from Gallup (copied from Matthew Yglesias):

The people of the USA are starting to see reality, in a way, but are still somewhat deluded about their role in it. What most self-identified 'haves' have most is debt.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Mon Jul 14th, 2008 at 03:27:01 AM EST

Re: Freddie and Fannie: it's the Anglo Disease (4.00 / 3)

How can someone be a "Neither" in a choice between being a "Have" and a "Have-Not"? That's kind of awkward.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Jul 14th, 2008 at 03:50:05 AM EST
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Re: Freddie and Fannie: it's the Anglo Disease (4.00 / 3)

Don't know. I guess people are hesitant to implicitly call themselves losers of the economic process, because they see (or cling to) a prospect of near-term betterment. Goes for me as a student.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Mon Jul 14th, 2008 at 03:58:41 AM EST
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Re: Freddie and Fannie: it's the Anglo Disease (4.00 / 4)

You are a "have hope"?

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Mon Jul 14th, 2008 at 06:33:26 AM EST
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Re: Freddie and Fannie: it's the Anglo Disease (4.00 / 2)

Have hope, will travel.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Mon Jul 14th, 2008 at 08:28:12 AM EST
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Re: Freddie and Fannie: it's the Anglo Disease (4.00 / 2)

Maybe people compare themselves implicitly to the worst case scenario: I for one, would consider myself as "have", because I've got a job, I'm earning more than the average (but less than 40k€ a year), have a car, can go on holidays as I Like (or almost), am in good health...even if I'm not a home-owner myself.

So I'm definitely a "have". Shame I'm not American. :D

A free fox in a free henhouse!

by Xavier in Paris on Tue Jul 15th, 2008 at 10:39:28 AM EST
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