[fabsroman]

Skyline,

I bet this will sound a little better. How about feel free to own a pet, but be ready to lose that pet when it has a terrible illness unless you are willing to shell out thousands of dollars. If people could swallow that a little better, then maybe the vets wouldn't get to charge what they do. I went through it with that golden retriever. I had the choice to make. Hundreds to thousands of dollars on dialysis, or putting the dog down. The latter choice it was, but I didn't go screaming about how the vet was gouging me and how they are terrible people. If Wolvie really thought his dog was suffering and he wanted to end the suffering, it could be done for very cheap. When I was a kid, a friend of mine put their old and extremely sick German Shepard down by leaving it in the garage with the car running (carbon monoxide poisoning). I was horrified back then because I was only 8 years old, but nowadays that doesn't sound too bad.

I could start crying about how terrible builders are with their inflating the market here and making it so that I can barely afford a townhouse, much less a single family home. How dare they. Truth be told, it isn't the builders, but the sheeple that let the real estate agents and builders run the price up. If we ALL just sat back and said, enough is enough, this crap wouldn't happen, but it does because people succumb to emotions instead of logic. Salesmen prey on emotion, and that is why you have to be willing to walk away from any deal unless it suits you.

I cannot tell you how many people got 5/1 arms thinking they would be moving out from where they live before the new interest rate hit, but they are now stuck there and scared to death to see the new interest rate. How about the poor bastards that got interest only loans. Wait until those principal payments start to kick in in 5 to 8 years. The payment amounts will be much greater than the standard 30 year loan at that point. They wanted the big house, now they have to live with the consequences, but I guess we should be blaming the real estate agents, home builders, and mortgage brokers for twisting their arm.

Right now, I would say that I am prepared to spend $5,000 on Nitro for anything that would extend his life a year or more and give him a good quality of life. Anything more than that, and I would really have to sit down and think about it. In fact, after the emergency trip to the vet, I am seriously thinking about buying insurance.

I truly believe this is the land where you are allowed to choose from amongst a million things. What bugs me is when people decide on something and then cry when it doesn't turn out exactly the way they want it. We all want our cake and we want to eat it too.

I'm sorry, but I just deal with this too often with my clientele. How about the guy that wrecks his friend's motorcycle and then refuses to pay because his friend should have had insurance on the bike? What kind of excuse is that. Blame shifting is what really kills me. On the flip side, my brother wrecked his buddy's motorcycle and wrote his friend an $8,500 check as soon as he got out of the hospital.


Wolvie,

While I think you are partly to blame, I truly, and I mean truly, admire your honesty regarding the facts. Yeah, I think the vets were charging a little much, but if that is what the market will pay, I don't blame them. Likewise, you would want to get all the money you could when you are starting a new job and wouldn't accept anything less than what the market is paying.

Here is another quote, that if everybody adhered to, the world would be a much better place:

"Never lie, even if it means your death."