[earl237]

Oops, how embarrassing and ironic that I made a spelling error in my last sentence.

[talaniman]

Americans think they are highly taxed when they are one of the lowest taxes countries on earth. Denmark has the highest taxes. The tea party is being totally unreasonable about never wanting to raise taxes. They seem to forget that their hero Ronald Reagan raised taxes when it was necessary. Progress won't be made until most tea party fools in the House are defeated and I'm pretty right leaning on economic issues. One thing I find odd is that the tea party's policies support the rich, so whey are their biggest supporters trailer trash morons who can't even spell properly on their signs at rallies?

I fail to understand it either.

[paraclete]

Perspective is always a difficult thing to understand. Here in Australia the level of tax doesn't seem that high and yet we were told only recently we are among the highest taxed people on Earth. So I guess the system works and the maximum fleece is obtained with the minimum of bleeting, where as across the big pond the opposite appears to be true, the fleece is short and the sheep bleet inceasantly.

[tomder55]

Perhaps on this side of the pond we the sheep haven't resigned ourselves to serfdom .

[smoothy]

Americans think they are highly taxed when they are one of the lowest taxes countries on earth. Denmark has the highest taxes. The tea party is being totally unreasonable about never wanting to raise taxes. They seem to forget that their hero Ronald Reagan raised taxes when it was necessary. Progress won't be made until most tea party fools in the House are defeated and I'm pretty right leaning on economic issues. One thing I find odd is that the tea party's policies support the rich, so whey are their biggest supporters trailer trash morons who can't even spell properly on their signs at rallies?

Gee, YOU pay stupid high taxes so anyone else in the world that doesn't think they should as well are being unreasonible?

I don't see the left handing over their fortunes to the covernment... or are the real hypocrites really the lefties.

But then... I see just how robust that wonderful European Economy is with those crippling taxes... as well as the unemployment numbers over the last several decades.

The only fools are those that think they are entitled to take what someone else has earned so they can spend it on the lazy who can't be bothered to take the effort.

The rich earned that money... and what reasonible concept of reality are the lazy entitiled to take what they didn't earn from those who did. And why is the government taking it any different that some thug on the street doing it.

Both steal the earnings off someone to give it to someone who didn't earn it because they felt entitled to it.

The ONLY difference is one uses a physical weapon.

[paraclete]

perhaps on this side of the pond we the sheep haven't resigned ourselves to serfdom .

Don't believe what Tut tells you, there are no serfs here, there are certainly no monarchs but more than enough queens. The spirit of this nation is a fair go and that includes each paying their fair share, whereas your low taxes ensure that only half pay and half starve

[smoothy]

There are very few people here actually "starving".

Poor people that have Cell phones, Cars, Cable TV, and game systems along with Color TV's, and Microwaves... can afford food. Particularly with food stamps so many get.

The poor might actually die of starvation in third world countries... but they don't here.

The percentages of the "so called" starving poor suffering obesity or even morbid obesity will show lack of sufficient nutrition is not a problem they suffer from.

[tomder55]

The spirit of this nation is a fair go and that includes each paying their fair share,

Who determines what a fair share is ? There are some who believe in "liberty" and some who believe in the "general will " .You call the general will fair . I don't .Your philosophy comes from the French 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man with the premise that "The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation. No body nor individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation"..."Law is the expression of the general will."

Mine is more in tune with John Adams authored 'Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts'... "All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness." Governments are created to secure these rights.
Under our system it's not up to the general will to determine fairness. Everyone is free to pursue their prosperity .
At the end of our revolution we did not expropriate the wealth of the rich for the common good or for fairness .We did not nationalize other peoples property .

The French did and the result was the Reign of Terror and ultimately the Napoleon dictatorship.

[talaniman]

If the government is we the people, then the people can demand change. Isn't that why we vote? A weak government is a weak people, where individuals that can, will take that weakness to rob us blind. And they did. Have been for a while. To say that's not the case, is to ignore facts. A dwindling middle class, and the rise of the poverty level, and 10% unemployment.

Personally, just me, I would unite at the polls and vote every body who wasn't on MY side OUT!!

A weak government that gets out of the way of those that would rob, steal, pollute, and hoard? No WAY. An effective one that works for all of us equally, that's what I vote for. I vote to circulate the money, that simple, let every body be able to touch the tools of a strong growing economy. That's the class warfare. Those that can use the tools, and those that have no tools.

The way it is now, only the rich can get a loan from the bank, to buy anything. That's not fair.

[smoothy]

The way it is now, only the rich can get a loan from the bank, to buy anything. Thats not fair.

Gee, if that was the case all along the housing bubble would have never burst. People getting mortgages that should never have thanks to a Plan Obama was part of before he ever ran for a political office and came into being under Bill Clinton.

All those deadbeat poor people refusing to pay their mortgages... I mean imagine... being expected to pay money you borrow back... and having to prove you are capable of paying a loan back before someone will loan you any money... for shame... for shame.

How much of his own money has George Soros handed out to the poor with no expectations of a repayment or GASP... interest, How about Warren Buffett?

You have a right to anything you can actually pay for yourself... and not one thing more.

Everyone isn't "entitled" to own a property they can't or won't pay for. That's what Rentals are for.

People aren't entitled to free handouts either... you want to borrow money, you are expected to pay it back with interest. Or here is a novel concept... save the money up before you buy something and pay cash.

[talaniman]

That just it Smoothy. Banks where giving loans to anybody, instead of refusing them. Why, because it was highly profitable. Second mortgages? Highly profitable. But now they can't even say who owns those mortgages ant more, because they "bundled" them and sold them for even more profit. Then they laid off those people and now you have a bunch of empty houses, and even still, banks make more money foreclosing, than they do negotiating. That's why the states are investigating the banks, and the insurance companies and the role they are playing in the housing industry crash. Its was a rip off.

No different than the tech bubble, or the junk bond bubble, just bigger.

[smoothy]

That just it Smoothy. Banks where giving loans to anybody, instead of refusing them. Why, because it was highly profitable. Second mortgages? Highly profitable. But now they can't even say who owns those mortgages ant more, because they "bundled" them and sold them for even more profit. Then they laid off those people and now you have a bunch of empty houses, and even still, banks make more money foreclosing, than they do negotiating. Thats why the states are investigating the banks, and the insurance companies and the role they are playing in the housing industry crash. Its was a rip off.

No different than the tech bubble, or the junk bond bubble, just bigger.

They did't do it because it was profitible... but what was it called, the Community reinvestment act... actually forced them into giving loans they once wouldn't touch because they were too risky. Under the pretext everyone deserved to own their own home.

And the fact is, everyone isn't, because far too many people aren't responsible enough, or insist on buying more than they could reasonibly afford.

And the Bundling was just an offshoot of that to find some way to make some money off that risk.

A lot of foreclosures are people walking away because it dropped to less than they paid, not because they couldn't afford to pay. That's an example of people that should have never received a loan because that irresponsibility would have been reflected in their credit history.

[talaniman]

That's pure BS, it was all about greed. That's why they had deregulated the freaking banking industry in the first place. It made it legal to steal, and you can whitewash it any way you please, but that's what happens every time you hire a fox to guard the hen house. The hens disappear. It's a great idea, people in houses, but they had no choice but to walk away, before they were kicked out. Credit ruined in any case.

The banks WANT you to walk away, they profit from that too!They just resell it to someone who has some money. You know, the ones with jobs still, that didn't get laid off, or over leveraged.

Heck, the banks don't even know who owns the house anymore, they lost 90% of the original records remember?

Deregulated Corporate Power=GREED!! That's what the war is about.

[smoothy]

That's what the DNC wants you to think... the banks didn't give mortgages to the lazy bums with the bad credit because they wanted to, they did it because they were forced to. Under Bill Clinton.

The Democrats spent the last several decades preaching about how EVERYONE deserves to own their own home... its their right after all, Nothing was said about them having to actually pay for it... but there are those that believe they should not have to.

And now the left wants to pretend they never wanted the deadbeats to get mortgages?


http://www.mediacircus.com/2008/10/o...ake-bad-loans/

Towards the bottom is Obama on Video in 2007 saying it was a GOOD idea.

[talaniman]

Having a house is great, but the DNC (or the RNC) forced no banks to give out loans that they knew couldn't be paid. The greedy bankers approved such loans because they established a hook up with the insurance companies to provide them with the means to make money, and cash in when the loan was defaulted. They rigged the game to fail, for profit, and passed all those bad loans to global banks. Repubs, AND Dem's VOTED to deregulate the banks and let them police themselves, just as they do other corporations.

See what big oil is doing, and wants to do more of it.

You are entitled to your opinion, but not your own facts. To ignore what was done by the banks, insurance companies, rating agencies, and politicians is... supporting criminal activity. Funny how you jump on one criminal, and not the other. This was definitely BIPARTISAN stupidity.

[smoothy]

Having a house is great, but the DNC (or the RNC) forced no banks to give out loans that they knew couldn't be paid. The greedy bankers approved such loans because they established a hook up with the insurance companies to provide them with the means to make money, and cash in when the loan was defaulted. They rigged the game to fail, for profit, and passed all those bad loans to global banks. Repubs, AND Dem's VOTED to deregulate the banks and let them police themselves, just as they do other corporations.

See what big oil is doing, and wants to do more of it.

You are entitled to your opinion, but not your own facts. To ignore what was done by the banks, insurance companies, rating agencies, and politicians is ........................... supporting criminal activity. Funny how you jump on one criminal, and not the other. This was definitely BIPARTISAN stupidity.

Yes they did... Obama was part of that lawsuit making them... the CRA is all about that right to its core... and even Obama says as much in his own words on video...

If the Messiah says it on video... you are committing blasphemy for not believing his words. Its right out of the horses mouth... you are trying to argue Obama isn't part of something he himself says he was?

From that first lawsuit the total reason for all of that was to give unqualified people loans for houses they could never afford, because after all, to deny an unqualified applicant a loan is racist.

[talaniman]

Subprime mortgage crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission reported in January 2011: "In the early part of the 20th century, we erected a series of protections—the Federal Reserve as a lender of last resort, federal deposit insurance, ample regulations—to provide a bulwark against the panics that had regularly plagued America’s banking system in the 20th century. Yet, over the past 30-plus years, we permitted the growth of a shadow banking system—opaque and laden with short term debt—that rivaled the size of the traditional banking system. Key components of the market—for example, the multitrillion-dollar repo lending market, off-balance-sheet entities, and the use of over-the-counter derivatives—were hidden from view, without the protections we had constructed to prevent financial meltdowns. We had a 21st-century financial system with 19th-century safeguards."[59]

The b@stards took a good idea, and got greedy. Read the whole darn thing and stop with the edited snipets of some right wing blog.

[smoothy]

And Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, along with John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Barrak Obaba were right smack in the middle of the Fannie Mae debackle...

[smoothy]

Subprime mortgage crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.



The b@stards took a good idea, and got greedy. Read the whole darn thing and stop with the edited snipets of some right wing blog.

BullS**. A so-called report published under the OBama administration trying to distance themselves from his key involvement in the housing mess from day one.

That qualifies as nothing more the DNC published propaganda...

Throw in a dinosaur and it qualifies as science fiction... take out the dinosaur, its still fiction.

[talaniman]

Both government failed regulation and deregulation contributed to the crisis. In testimony before Congress both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Alan Greenspan conceded failure in allowing the self-regulation of investment banks.[116][117]

Increasing home ownership has been the goal of several presidents including Roosevelt, Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush.[118] In 1982, Congress passed the Alternative Mortgage Transactions Parity Act (AMTPA), which allowed non-federally chartered housing creditors to write adjustable-rate mortgages. Among the new mortgage loan types created and gaining in popularity in the early 1980s were adjustable-rate, option adjustable-rate, balloon-payment and interest-only mortgages. These new loan types are credited with replacing the long standing practice of banks making conventional fixed-rate, amortizing mortgages. Among the criticisms of banking industry deregulation that contributed to the savings and loan crisis was that Congress failed to enact regulations that would have prevented exploitations by these loan types. Subsequent widespread abuses of predatory lending occurred with the use of adjustable-rate mortgages.[41][119] Approximately 90% of subprime mortgages issued in 2006 were adjustable-rate mortgages.[2]

I know you didn't read the whole thing, so I just have to keep giving the facts.