Letters to the Editor
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Wow, what a loser!
Yet again, Cary misses the entire point of this letter. I have little sympathy for the writer of this letter. "Living the Dream" is facing the consequences of his and his wife's own investment into the narcissistic and self-serving ideology that ruled the economic windfall we all benefited from the past 5 years. They chose to move into a much too expensive house in a neighborhood where they've made no emotional investment. I'm sure based on his description of his wife and himself, they have saddled themselves with much educational debt, or at the very least have very little equity/liquidity to show from working in academia and decades (between the two) in school. They weren't thinking about long-term planning or even what they really wanted, they were looking to keep up with their friends they saw at summer barbecues and cocktail parties who talked about the new estate in Connecticut or the house they got on the Eastern Shore for the upcoming season. Spare me the suburban martyr act. You made the decision, live with it.
Rather than tackle the issue head-on, Cary chooses to attack the idea of suburban living and goes on a rant of new-urbanism with a tirade for eco-living. Do you really want to compare the carbon-emissions between urban and suburban dwellers? You're an idiot and so are your readers if they look to you as some moral authority, and whether it should be based on where you live. It's just like a liberal and their entitlement mentality to enjoy reaping the benefits of the swelling economy, but completely incapable (financially, emotionally, and apparently mentally) to uphold the responsibility of the decisions made during the hey-day of more prosperous times. Sounds to me like "Living the dream" is experiencing a mixture of a pre- midlife crisis, liberal guilt over his job in a clearly capitalist industry, as well as remorse for living like a Republican with his Democratic beliefs. Get over your self-importance as it relates to society as a whole. Your choices may very well reflect the state of the nation, but you didn't lead us here. If anything, your weak-willed ambitions made you part of the lemmings that are facing the credit-crunch, temporarily downturned economy, and the shambles left from a reckless real estate run.
Just be glad that Rebulicans are taking care of your finances for you, renegotiating your interest-only loans with financial institutions, and even sending you a little check to enable you to grab your soy latte, crystal therapy massage, and have a little cry about why you're not out saving the world one HeadStart program at a time. Instead you chose to go work for a hedge fund. Seriously, John Edwards, you've been out of the election for less than a month, and you're already second-guesssing your life decisions that completely conflict your ideology? What a pussy!