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I'll take two. My parents bought this house in the '80s for under $100k and we're working on a $180k mortgage now because after the income loss when my father died, we can't make the needed repairs to make it sellable at its appraised value, and if we sell it we wouldn't have enough left to buy another house. Unforseeable circumstances fucked us over, so surely we deserve a bailout, too.

But we live in the real world. Bear Stearns will get a bailout while we stand here trying to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.