Mike said:

"There was a time...

not so many generations ago when only the well-off could afford unlimited amounts of fat and sugar."

My dad grew up very poor on a farm in Kentucky. Wanna gues what they ate? Biscuits made with lard. Most everything else fried in lard. Fried Fat Back (from whence comes lard).

From Wikipedia:

Fatback was extremely popular in the South during the Great Depression because it is an inexpensive piece of meat.

Mollasses. Lots of it - they grew it (and processed it themselves)

Sugar and fat - Every day!

And this guy is a self proclaimed idiot.

After reading a significant number of these responses, it seems that many of you are just as stupid as the guy who wrote the article. It's scary to think you people do things for a living that might actually affect me. Any of you idiots that did more planning for your last road trip than you did when you bought your house a doctor, dentist, lawyer, accountant, or plumber?

I wish there was a stupidity test that consumers could put "professional" people through before hiring them or using their services. I know a dentist, a lawyer, and a sports medicine physician that I think are truly unintelligent. Now I see that they are in good company.

I have owned two houses in 22 years, and both of them are exactly what I thought they would be. How hard can it be?

Singing flight attendants, that's what! No kidding. On the last two flights I took with Southwest, the attendants engaged the passengers in games and verrrrrry goofy singing. Sounds silly, but it sure lightened the atmostphere (no pun intended).

One poster wrote:

"Where are people living?

For the negative people who posted - you should realize that there are some markets (NYC, SF, BOS, CA) where there was no reasonable pried housing within earshot of the market."

If you live where it is impossible to live then you are stu-pid. Save up a little money, buy a bus ticket, and move to a part of this glorious country where you do not pay a crushing premium to be near the hippest bar. Trust me, it can be done. There are millions of us doing it right now. I live in a log home that was featured in Log Home Living (12 page spread) on five acres of what appears to be a state park. I love going home. My home is an exceptionally beautiful place to be. I am not rich by any standard.

Here is "the secret". Buy an inexpensive house as soon as the market comes back from its trip to insanity. Stay in it for 12 years (boo hoo - we lived in a starter home while our friends moved incrementally up - costing themselves untold thousands in the cost of buying and selling multiple homes). Constantly be on the lookout for good, affordable land, then BUILD, NOT BUY your next house. Of course if you are too stupid to hold a screwdriver, this may not work for you. That is the price you pay for being utterly dependant on others to do what used to be done by most all men for themselves in general. In that case, leave the good stuff alone, as it will drive prices down. My kids will be in the market for a house soon enough.

Nope. I grew up in Detroit, now live in Virginia. I bought my own first car, and paid my way through college. I simply find it incredible that the "can do" attitude of the US has devolved to a "can't do anything" pack of entitled retards mentality.

And as I stated, but you obviously did not read, I built my current house.

Taylor, otherwise known as TaylorTucky. (That's how you know I didn't just look it up.) My brother still lives there, and another in Royal Oak. Works for GM (for the moment). We grew up learning to work with our hands. I now do really scary things like fix my own dishwasher....

The sooner they are gone, the sooner America will be a better place. They epitomize all that is wrong with American politics.

I am the most important person in my life, and whatever I want, regardless of the impact on others, takes precedence. What a childish, egomaniacle society!