Attn: Rule-Abiding Homeowners

You may find yourself unhappy that your mortgage-loving neighbors with the Escalade in their driveway and the neck-deep credit card debt are likely to receive government assistance to prevent them from being evicted due to foreclosure. You may find yourself calling this unfair. Rest assured, these feelings are rooted in a right sense of injustice, a sense that evil should not be rewarded. You may also rest assured that if this sense of yours is particularly well-tuned, you will be unhappy about a great many things in this world. You may want to examine where you learned this idea that life would be fair and you would be safe from risk if you played by the rules. I might suggest to you that playing by the rules is not, and cannot ever be, enough.