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Extreme Makeover Home Edition Disasters
Written by admin on August 4, 2008 – 11:21 pm -Welcome back!
The hit ABC show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” always rubbed me the wrong way. It seemed slightly absurd to tear down some poor people’s home and then build them a McMansion.
Well, it turns out that it was actually a bad idea.
Several people who were blessed to be visited by the show are having their sad realities continuing to plague them into their new lives.
One couple that had a massive house built is now having it foreclosed. Apparently, after their mortgage was paid off bye the show and they had a brand new valuable house, they decided to take out a mortgage and start a business; which quickly failed. They are now going through foreclosure.
In another instance, the family could no longer afford to maintain the massive horse complex that the show left them and were forced to beg to the community for donations again.
“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” exists to sell Sear Appliances and other sponsor’s crap. The show paints a picture of insane wealth that all Americans should aspire to, even if they don’t need it and can’t afford it. This show is everything that is wrong with America. All it does is perpetuate consumerism, which is destroying our society.
You can’t give a hand up to poor people who have no idea how to handle money and then give them a giant house without teaching them how to manage money and take care of a house that large. It’s asking for disaster. It makes for great TV drama, but it doesn’t make for such good real life drama.
