Do you feel sorry for Rod Blagojevich?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100702/ap_on_re_us/us_blagojevich_trial

Poor guy was so stressed about money because he and his wife spent over $400K in 6 years on clothes. Of course he needed to sell Obama's Senate seat to raise cash!

When I was a political intern, I missed my mark. I should have stayed in D.C. and learned to be a big spender. They say you receive what you vision: I obviously visioned too small.

Well, the ambitious ones do seem to get others (companies, lobbyists) to fund their sprees. I think we just see the tip of the iceberg when a few are caught.

Too bad we can't all be like that guy in Alaska, who had "no idea" where $100K of home improvements came from, since "his wife took care of all that!" lol!

7/2/2010

I think it's going to be a three hanky
court trial , poor bastard , I guess he
would sell his relatives for money, I
predict he'll get 20 years...

Cheers..Joe

I only know the man from the bad news. He sounds like he believed he's done no wrong. It seems to be the nature of many people today.

He was raised and lived within a system. He worked within the rules of the system. It was okay to him because that's how it was always done. He broke only one of the system's rules: Don't get caught.

"You can't fix stupid." -- Ron White

Hey...all he has to do is publicly appologize, say he was misdirected, and all is forgiven...right? Seems to be the new trend.

You're right Rhett, and then he can write a book about it.

Just goes to show...voters don't know what their doing. Anyone think a jury will be any better?

I do not feel sorry for him.

He caused his own trouble.

He thinks everyone is stupid.

I was at the hair salon today and read a People magazine article about the bankruptcy filing of the Guidices (Teresa of Real Houswives of NJ fame). They blamed it on the "bad economy," but their spending made the Blagos look like amateurs. The husband says he doesn't regret it, because if "they didn't live like they do, they wouldn't have a TV show."

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/celebrities/index.ssf/2010/06/real_housewives_of_new_jersey_57.html

7/3/2010

These people are SICK !

Cheers..Joe

Jpe,

You said it-- who on earth do they think they are anyway?

no. he married her.

I have lived within my means all my life; more luxurious when my income was higher (Mercedes instead of Hyundai); a larger home; more vacations; but I always looked for value and followed a budget. I saved for the future. I contributed to good causes, a tithe when I felt spiritually inclined.

There have been people all around me that spent everything, saved nothing, went bankrupt every 10 years and lived high all the time. They still live high. They run up the consumer credit and unload it in bankruptcy. Their friends bail them out until they, too, run into a wall.

I understand a reorganization. I understand unforeseen circumstances: fires, floods, hurricanes, business failures, illness, etc. I don't understand frivolous spending receiving the benefit of bankruptcy.

It feels like stealing to me. Credit was extended for actual services and products received. Why bother paying at all? Just walk away with them. Worse is done to the pitiful mother who swipes groceries to feed her children or writes a bounce check she intends to cover - but cannot.

So many things I do not understand.

dkchristi wrote:

It feels like stealing to me.

It IS stealing. I have no problem with the bankruptcy law overhaul that was done a few years ago. I suspect far more people run up their bills to live high on the hog than for any other reason. My ex-SIL is one.