Quit your crying!

So...the housing market isn't the best it has been in a while.  In fact, I would concede that it's rather gloomy.  However, not the entire market is suffering, but the majority is.  Some owners of condos and single family homes are starting to fret that they may have to foreclose rather soon.  This is not news.  This has been plastered over every single media outlet in the States and world actually.  Yes, this is a serious situation...but who is to blame for these conditions?  Aren't we, the consumers to blame?  Didn't we drive the prices up artificially based on speculation and expected future earnings?  We, the people weren't forced to buy a new condo for sale but we were lured into it because we thought it was a good and safe investment.  As we're learning now, for the majority of us, this wasn't a safe investment.  So, if this was our fault, why are we asking for the government to bail us out?  It's as if, this is a new phenomenon to us.  But it's not.  We saw this in the late 90s with the stock market.  The bubble burst and prices went down.  So, why are we whining as asking the government to help us out with our mistakes.  We must take responsibility for our actions and own up to our mistakes.  We are a country filled with luxury and seldom do we expect that anything wrong can go wrong in our lives.  And when it does, we cry to our government about how bad our situation is.  You know what, I'm tired of it.  I'm tired of hearing about your hardships.  Life throws you many curveballs and it's the people who have studied how to accurately hit that ball are the ones that will survive.  So, if you're thinking about borrowing a couple hundred thousand dollars from the bank, make sure you plan ahead and your swing is fluid and not even a curveball from The Rocket himself would phase you.