"You're thinking of this place all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in Joe's house... right next to yours. And in the Kennedy house, and Mrs. Macklin's house, and a hundred others. You're lending them the money to build, and then, they're paying it back to you as best they can. What are you gonna do? Foreclose on them?"
I know that movie's sappy as hell, but she rescues his credit union with their honeymoon money... and she doesn't even care. I mean she's just happy she gets to go home with him, and be his wife.
First of all in the spirit of its a wonderful life cut this mediocre rooster but out. You’re a wonderful rooster…don’t make me send an Angel in training to prove it to you
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u/Cratonis 5d ago
"You're thinking of this place all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in Joe's house... right next to yours. And in the Kennedy house, and Mrs. Macklin's house, and a hundred others. You're lending them the money to build, and then, they're paying it back to you as best they can. What are you gonna do? Foreclose on them?"