One Of God's Greatest Gifts / The Ability To Fail Like A Moron
After my last post this seems appropriate again. We can't survive or strive if we let the short sighted among us deyne us the right to fail, because failure is the opposite side of the success coin! You simply can't have one with out the other.
Being empty nester's, Brenda and I more often than not watch the news during dinner, some days we make the mistake of paying to much attention. We heard that home owners never knew they had to make their payments and there ought to be a new law to protect them. Then they were interviewing high school students who had obviously not been allowed to fail, but socially promoted. Functional morons.
What about the poor morons?Then I remember that it had been suggested that Loan Originators should have kept these morons from these terrible loans. But, for more than three decades we've had civil rights laws that strive to take discrimination out of lending! Also in the name of civil rights we've developed the greatest opportunity for home ownership known to man!
The opportunities/the tools, were the very things that they would have the Loan Originators selectively discriminate the morons from! The only legal way to protects morons is to deny everyone the programs that helped so many.
What about the poor morons, they are not to stupid to get an attorney or call the state or the FTC and complain if they think you've keep them from a loan or home they qualified for. They would be in the right!
We could rewrite the law, that's easy! But, what about the overwhelming majority that use the same programs and succeeded?
Let's put this in a different perspective, Brilliant Little Janie is now in school, many students fail in school! Because of her carrying parents, she does well, maybe failure just isn't in her genes. Sitting next to her in first grade is Little Johnny Moron, who's parents don't care. Little Johnny is going to fail first grade. It's hurts to be called a failure! It hurts to fail. So we pass a law restricting what can be taught to first graders, so that even the Moron's kids can't fail.
The Moron's mother likes the new law, her kid can't fail. But, what about Little Jannie parents? Their daughter was going to succeed beyond their wildest dreams, but now to insure that the Moron's kids pass Little Jannie can't be challenged. She can't have the opportunity to succeed because Little Johnny Moron can be allowed to fail.
Failure is one of God's greatest gifts. Failure inspires great men and women! Failure empowers people knowing you can survive failure is one of mankind's most important asset. Failure can trap some, but they were already doomed, not everyone can succeed. Would you really limit Little Janie and everyone else to protect Little Johnny's feelings? Really?
Would you over turn 148 years of progress and the great accomplishments of the last 30 years, to keep a few from failing? Really?
Are you the one to decided who deserves a home of their own?
Everyone deserves the opportunity to fail! God gave mankind freewill knowing that we'd become sinners. Of what value would life be without the opportunity for personal success? Those that believe "it takes a village" see others as nothing more than swine in a sty!
Those that say there ought to be a law, forget there already is! If laws are broken then I suggest we try enforcing the existing ones before we further restrict everyone!
Bill
PS: I used much of this in an answer to a comment on: Why Are We Calling Lenders Predatory
Bill
William J Archambault Jr
The Real Estate Investment Institute
wja@reii.org 832-259-7078 or 702-516-1569
From my past: GRI 1975, FLI 1974, Catalyst from a client 1974 an agent that makes things happen, REII, The Real Estate Investment Institute 1995.
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