Bend over Amerika!!

by sinis 42 Replies latest jw friends

  • sinis
    sinis

    People is the US lost their homes because they borrowed way more than they could pay back. Buyers should have been much more cautious. It was a result of deregualtion of the banking industry, not socialsim. Look at Canada. No crisis here, but banks are regualted to prevent this. Damn socialist Canada!

    Perhaps you have been listening to the Tea Party rhetoric. Sarah Palin has all the answers right in the palm of her hand. (left one I believe). No teleprompter needed.

    Hello, McFly? What does the video have to do with people borrowing more than they should have? I completely agree, with your statement... however, the video shows that BANKS, and this is not the only one, are getting more money on top of what they should be getting via HELOC foreclosures and even regular foreclosures. Why should the Fed / FDIC give taxpayer money to these leaches over and above their "losses"???

    Tea Party? Since when did this get political? ...but if you insist... Hahahahahahaha, yea Clinton in 1999 repealed the G-L-B Act which affected the Glass-Steagall bill and deregulated the banks. Funny how the liberals and conservatives can't see the freaking truth in front of them... but you go on believing in that Hope and Change... let me know how that works out for you...

  • beksbks
    beksbks

    Ummm WorldTraveller is Canadian.

  • sinis
    sinis

    ...and your point being?

  • worldtraveller
    worldtraveller

    One thing I noticed from former JW's and some others it that they need to find their funny bone. Sarcasm, people. The Stewart/Colbert stuff.

    The point is that you must be able to afford to pay for a home throughout the life span of the mortgage. 25 years is a long time to keep a job. You must expect the inevitable. If your home depreciates in a crappy market, it is still your home. The payments don't change. You need to pay it off. Declaring bankruptcy hurts everyone, including yourself. I lost my job twice and still got back on my feet.

    Common sense everyone.

  • Robdar
    Robdar
    Declaring bankruptcy hurts everyone, including yourself.

    Bah! Humbug!

    I lost my job twice and still got back on my feet.

    Sorry, but I'm out of biscuits or I would offer you a treat.

  • sinis
    sinis

    I'm not discounting that. Shit does happen. HOWEVER, for the banks to make out like bandits, refuse to loan to others and accept trillions in government bail out money, and pull this shit, sanctioned by the gubermint, is beyond comprehending...

  • worldtraveller
    worldtraveller

    Agreed.

  • JeffT
    JeffT

    The left wing hippies I hung out with in college forty years ago thought spelling it "Amerika" made some kind of comment about the state of the country. Most of them were too stoned to articulate what that comment was. Sorry, when I see that I sense a sweet smell in the air and see bell bottom jeans.

    Robdar, correct me if I'm wrong (OK you don't neet the invitation I'm sure you'll do it anyway ) but I would say that bankruptcy is intended to get both the debtor and the creditors out of a mess in an organized fashion. It was started because the methods in use at the time (throwing the debtor in prison, arranging duels, homicide etc) didn't work very well for anybody. The power to establish a uniform bankruptcy code is specifically granted to Congress in Article I section 8. Depending on the type (Chap 7, 11 or 13) it arranges and orderly payment to the creditors and provides some relief to the debtor. As such it is not intrinsically good or bad, it is just a tool for use in a particular situation.

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    Are the claims made in this film in written form somewhere that we could look at them w/o wasting time?

  • beksbks
    beksbks
    Declaring bankruptcy hurts everyone, including yourself.
    Bah! Humbug!

    I guess it doesn't hurt Bankruptcy lawyers

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