Urban Dictionary. McMansion. A large, grandiose and completely obnoxious home that looks so generic it had to come out of a greasy, styrofoam box.

Democrats Try to Hijack the So-Called "Bailout". They demand that bankruptcy judges be allowed to rewrite the terms of the underlying mortgages, in order to "provide direct assistance to homeowners caught in the foreclosure crisis"... in other words, to allow people who took out loans much too big for houses they could not afford to nevertheless keep those houses, even though they cannot make the payments. All at the expense of financial institutions that are teetering at the brink as it is.

Enough social engineering. By Democrats and Republicans. If there's going to be a bailout, then let's do it without the socialist-populist earmarks.

I'm growing very weary of this class warfare stuff that's being stuffed down my throat by the news media and The Messiah and his followers. Most of us are rich. It's greed that's gotten us into this mess. And irresponsibility.

Rishon Rishon has an interesting take on this. “Who is rich?” is part of a famous passage from Pirqey Avot:

Eyzehu hakham – halomed mikol adam
Eyzehu gibor – hakovesh et yisro
Eyzehu `ashir – hasameah b’helko
Eyzehu m’khubad – ham’khabed et habriyot

Who is wise – one who learns from every human being
Who is a hero – one who conquers his inclinations
Who is rich – one who is happy with his lot
Who is respectable – one who respects his fellow man

We have romantic images of people living on the American frontier in the mid-1800s. Though their lives were hard, we don’t think of them as living in abject poverty. In fact, they weren’t; I am in frequent contact with people who live in what would be considered abject poverty, but in fact live very rich lives – they just have less things. On the other hand, one of the reasons why being poor in the US is so horrible is that it makes it hard to get away from people who are impoverished also in spirit.

I've often wondered at the increasing amounts of people who are buying these McMansions and filling them up with perfect furniture and every creature comfort known to mankind when it's pretty obvious that they simply can't afford it, unless they are secretly heirs and heiresses.

Why do responsible, hardworking Americans have to pay for this? And this?