We are a military family who moved into the DC area about 4 years ago. We bought a home at an exhorbitant inflated price, and now since traffic was so bad and our son was special needs, we moved to another area of town. We are trying to rent the place, but every military renter we have has to pull up stakes due to deployment to Iraq.

So, now we can't even rent the place. It's in a nice area of PWC, but due to all this housing mess, we keep dropping the price and are getting no renters.

So, thanks to George Bush and all his shenanigans, we are going to head towards a financial crisis. My husband is also deployed and we will have two rents to pay come January.

I really doubt our parents could have or ever would have faced such nonsense in their lives. Illegal immigration, a war, a falterning economy, a housing crisis, exhorbitant prices for education, housing, food . . . I feel as a family we are shouldering EVERY one of these burdens, personally.

Sorry to whine and rant, but it's not fair. We are an American family, patriotic, we play by the rules, work hard, are busy raising three children, trying to do our best . .. .yet we're heading into financial ruin. :cry We both have good jobs, but with two mortagags to pay, we might as well be broke.