Bush has not objected when the big firms and rich executives of Wall Street have been on the receiving end of federal assistance, but now he is threatening to block a measure to aid hard-hit neighborhoods filled with ordinary Americans.I think its an ugly situation that these two entities have been structured so any rewards go to the shareholders and especially executives and risks get moved to the taxpayers.

•The average age of someone who searches for property on the internet - 38•The Median Age of a text messager - 38•86% of of users who have a cell phone have used text messagingA quote about the text messaging industry:"These numbers are not unlike what we saw in e-mail response during the mid-1990's as the Web emerged an advertising medium," said Will Hodgman, CEO, M:Metrics, who also founded AdRelevance, the global standard for advertising measurement on the Internet.

However, one of the hard parts with off-line to on-line marketing is "measuring" results.

Plus, back then, wood really measured an actual inch, or whatever, as opposed to today, making carpentry more challenging.

Otherwise, it appears that you were filled with "so much" not so worthwhile stuff, since there is no measureable result, AKA completed deal.

As this mess deepens look for more states (if not the feds) to adopt punitive measures designed to "protect" homeowners from a problem Congress created.

Measure the hole, do the math and figure out the cubic yards in the hole.

I wouldn't know how to begin to measure for that one.

In all seriousness, no there is no need to go to extreme measures.

They followed with austerity measures that many say today worsened the situation.