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NBC Nightly News aired a story this evening about the mortgage crisis, and one way that some people are dealing with it. For $995, a company called You Walk Away will advise you how to keep the mortgage company from harassing you, and tell you how long you can legally stay in your house without making a payment, before you have to walk away. Trevor Smith with Blue Collar Agents thinks it’s such a clever marketing ploy, he wrote a post about it called Foreclosure with Sunshine and Puppy Dogs. I don’t know about you, but it sounds to me like predatory entrepreneurialism (is that a word?).

NBC followed the foreclosure story with a piece about the shortage of long haul truck drivers in our country. The trucking industry estimates they are currently 20,000 drivers short of their needs, and expect this number to grow in the coming year. Road drivers can make anywhere from $50,000 up to $100,000 per year but companies have trouble filling those positions because drivers essentially live in their trucks, and spend weeks at a time away from home.  You see where I’m going here? Talk about puppies and sunshine! You can ride around in your house and get paid for it too! Make good money, forget about your mortgage, and see the country all at the same time! Somebody call Bernake and tell him I’ve figured a way out of this mess!