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Bristol Palin pays $172,000 in cash for AZ house

Read up on what? Bristol Palin bought a house. How is she going to pay the taxes and the up keep over 30 years or so? Or is it just a little flipping thing?

You asked how she's going to pay for it and we're all talking about her current job.
 
It's not just about having a child out of wedlock. It's about having SEX before marriage. I've never heard one of her speeches, so I can't comment on what exactly her story is about that. People who have changed their lives and learned from their mistakes make EXCELLENT motivational speakers.

Typically speaking about the effects of sex before marriage, or alcoholism generally involves stating what the negatives were and how their lives were hurt by those actiosn

The alcoholic stating on how it caused his family to leave, to lose his job etc. If being an alcoholic had no visiable negative effects for the person it does not exactly make for a good back story to encourage others to stay away from being an alcoholic. As for Bristol as having sex before marriage has not caused any real negatives for her (other then some bad PR) I doubt it would make for a good back story where teens will say, I dont want what happened to her to happen to me
 
Read up on what? Bristol Palin bought a house. How is she going to pay the taxes and the up keep over 30 years or so? Or is it just a little flipping thing?

If she can come up with $172k in cash, I doubt that coming up with $5-10k/year will be much of a stumbling block.

In a country where tens of millions of people bought $400k houses with no money down and adjustable rate mortgages, I don't think that she's really the problem.
 
It's not just about having a child out of wedlock. It's about having SEX before marriage. I've never heard one of her speeches, so I can't comment on what exactly her story is about that. People who have changed their lives and learned from their mistakes make EXCELLENT motivational speakers.

The only motivation here is for her to make a cool $30,000 a speech. Get real.

Sorry but we are tired of another celeb/athelete/cool person
saying their sorry for their mistakes and are going to not make that mistake again. Wanting everyone to listen to their story.
Then a year later you get to hear that same old crap from the celeb who slipped......
cry me a river.

Do you really believe she is not going to have sex before she gets married now?
 
If she can come up with $172k in cash, I doubt that coming up with $5-10k/year will be much of a stumbling block.

In a country where tens of millions of people bought $400k houses with no money down and adjustable rate mortgages, I don't think that she's really the problem.


So what is her job going to be? Fame and fortune is fleeting especially in her case. And then the taxes are due after the maintenance.
 
So what is her job going to be? Fame and fortune is fleeting especially in her case. And then the taxes are due after the maintenance.

She could mop ****ing floors for minimum wage and I bet she'd have enough to take care of the house.

Again, someone who can pull together $172k in cash by age 20-whatever will probably be able to come up with $5-10k/year. They're not really the problem in the housing market.
 
Ask the person who started the thread?

You are correct as this a non-newsworthy article. If she had bought a 10 Million Dollar house that would have been a curious item. But this is just an average house. Why not list her grocery list too.

Some people are so obsessed with the Palins that if one of them sneezes, it is a story worth posting...
 
Some people are so obsessed with the Palins that if one of them sneezes, it is a story worth posting...

Very true. Look at all the anti-Palin threads on this forum.
 
Read up on what? Bristol Palin bought a house. How is she going to pay the taxes and the up keep over 30 years or so? Or is it just a little flipping thing?

the upkeep and taxes etc.. would probably be considerably less than her going out and getting a decent apartment. How will she pay? By getting a job and hopefully a good education out of all of this. She was tossed into the limelight and has handled herself better than most youngsters would considering the scrutiny.

As for her going around and giving abstinence talks, I would hope she would tell the kids about proper use of contraception as well, but either way we shouldn't fault someone for turning lemons into lemonade. I know a few young unwed mothers and fathers that for the most part are responsible children so we really shouldn't act like this is a problem that is completely unique to the Palins because of some kind of lack of intelligence or morals. **** happens. Hopefully she learned from it and will be a good mother.
 
Ask the person who started the thread?

You are correct as this a non-newsworthy article. If she had bought a 10 Million Dollar house that would have been a curious item. But this is just an average house. Why not list her grocery list too.


I agree that if she bought a 10 million dollar house the MSM would be all over it, putting her and her family down and talking about how all they care about is money and making money blah blah blah. Since Bristol bought a modest home, got a good deal on it and is a first time homeowner living the American dream, it's a non story. Nothing to make fun of here, so why is it the news?
 
Well she at least will be able to provide first hand knowledge of what can happen when you dont practice abstinence

Exactly, more so than someone who hasn't been through it. I don't know why people insist on putting her down for this. She is perfect as a spokesperson for young people.
 
So what is her job going to be? Fame and fortune is fleeting especially in her case. And then the taxes are due after the maintenance.

LOL too bad people weren't that concerned when people all over the country were buying houses they couldn't afford the mortgage on.
Bristol is 20 yrs old and paid cash for her home. I think that's a good thing and I'm sure there's no need to worry about how she'll pay her taxes.
 
Exactly, more so than someone who hasn't been through it. I don't know why people insist on putting her down for this. She is perfect as a spokesperson for young people.

Is isn't a putdown but seeing through the smokescreen.

Number one, her getting pregnant in high school has opened up doors to lucrative tv employment along with book deals. You don't see either of the Bush girls Dancing With The Stars. She isn't struggling to make a living with her baby in a trailer house.

In order to warn others about a behavior there must be an ability to show the negative consequences. She came from an upper middle class home with both parents present. A mom who meticulosly taught her children about abstinence.
And yet she got pregnant. How much effect do you think her 30 minute presentation on abstinence will have on a teen living in a single parent household where the parent is working two jobs a day? The school would be better off using that $30,000 to give out free condoms to the kids.

Her demand for $15,000 to $30,000 a speech is going to eliminate almost every public high school I know as so many are strapped for money that many programs are being axed. How would you feel if your public high school paid Daryl Stawberry $30,000 to come and speak about drug abuse?
 
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Like mother like daughter. If you do the math with Palin you will see there was a bun in the oven before marriage too. Not that I really give a flying ****, but please don't tell me I need to be a good little boy when it's obvious you weren't able to. Nothing makes me want to puke like ****ing hypocrites.
 
Exactly, more so than someone who hasn't been through it. I don't know why people insist on putting her down for this. She is perfect as a spokesperson for young people.

Not in this case


She is a bad spokersperson for abstinance

Usually you would want someone with negative life experiences from doing the "bad activity" to show up and say how their life was negatively effected by doing the bad activity

Bristol will show up and say, I had sex which I enjoyed, got preggers, had a baby, went on national TV, used the money to buy a nice house, now I get money to tell you that having sex befoe marriage is a bad thing and it will negatively effect your life. Without the negatives she will not be a good spokesperson
 
Not in this case


She is a bad spokersperson for abstinance

Usually you would want someone with negative life experiences from doing the "bad activity" to show up and say how their life was negatively effected by doing the bad activity

Bristol will show up and say, I had sex which I enjoyed, got preggers, had a baby, went on national TV, used the money to buy a nice house, now I get money to tell you that having sex befoe marriage is a bad thing and it will negatively effect your life. Without the negatives she will not be a good spokesperson

And you actually believe her life wasn't negatively affected by having a baby so soon ???? Are you kidding ??

Why do you believe she got on tv only because she became a teenage mother ?? Could it also be because of her celebrity mom ??

Take the hyperpartisan blinders off before opening your mouth and inserting your foot next time. Maybe you won't say such silly things if you do.
 
And you actually believe her life wasn't negatively affected by having a baby so soon ???? Are you kidding ??

Why do you believe she got on tv only because she became a teenage mother ?? Could it also be because of her celebrity mom ??

Take the hyperpartisan blinders off before opening your mouth and inserting your foot next time. Maybe you won't say such silly things if you do.

I never said it was or wasnt not

I said from appearances it has not.

If she talks about her life it will be

I had sex, had a kid, got on TV, bought a nice house. It is not a bad life going by that. It certainly does not provide much of a warning to many teenagers about the harm from premarital sex

A better spokesperson would be: someone who got an STD, or had a child and had to put off universiity for a longer period of time while trying to raise the child in poverty. You know someone whose back story indicates hardship in large part due to premarital sex.
 
And you actually believe her life wasn't negatively affected by having a baby so soon ???? Are you kidding ??

Why do you believe she got on tv only because she became a teenage mother ?? Could it also be because of her celebrity mom ??

Take the hyperpartisan blinders off before opening your mouth and inserting your foot next time. Maybe you won't say such silly things if you do.

Yes, you have one part correct in that getting on tv in part was due to having a celebrity mom. Of the 4 candidates who ran for President/Vice President in 2008 there were a total of around 18 children of these candidates.

What made Bristol stand out and recieve all these opportunities? Answer is that she was a high school kid pregnant out of wedlock.

Her teen pregnancy open the door for tv appearances and book deals. None of the other 17 candidate children have captilize as much as little miss abstinence has. She is only 20 and has been able to buy her own home.

Bad behavior pays again here in America.
 
Yes, you have one part correct in that getting on tv in part was due to having a celebrity mom. Of the 4 candidates who ran for President/Vice President in 2008 there were a total of around 18 children of these candidates.

What made Bristol stand out and recieve all these opportunities? Answer is that she was a high school kid pregnant out of wedlock.

Her teen pregnancy open the door for tv appearances and book deals. None of the other 17 candidate children have captilize as much as little miss abstinence has. She is only 20 and has been able to buy her own home.

Bad behavior pays again here in America.

Yeah, that and she was the ONLY high school age kid in the group. :roll:
 
You just have to *laugh* at the left on this one. They're so upset by Bristol's fame but have only themselves to blame for it with all of their finger pointing and ridicule. Now they're irked because she's been able to "capitalize" on all of their cruel intentions.

LOL - Bristol buys a house - I've never seen so many liberals become so suddenly concerned about a person's ability to pay taxes.
 
You just have to *laugh* at the left on this one. They're so upset by Bristol's fame but have only themselves to blame for it with all of their finger pointing and ridicule. Now they're irked because she's been able to "capitalize" on all of their cruel intentions.

LOL - Bristol buys a house - I've never seen so many liberals become so suddenly concerned about a person's ability to pay taxes.

No, just setting straight all the dim witted right wingers who have put Bristol on some type of pedestal for leading the fight for abstintence. When in reality she is just out to make a quick buck just like her mom.
 
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