Once the rich get to keep more of their money they just become richer.
I love this sentence and think it would read even better:
"Once people are allowed to KEEP more of THEIR own property, the collective has stolen LESS from them."
Once the rich get to keep more of their money they just become richer.
In the interests of example to back my previous post (where ideology is actually backed with statistics, not to mention we've apparently already forgotten history) I offer the following.
Hey Disco... All that stuff is bullshit. NOBODY knows what would have happened with no tax cuts or EXACTLY what the tax cuts caused.
You're smarter than this...don't get suckered by bullshit.
BOTH sides are "out to get us"...don't trust either a Dem or a Rep. In fact...don't EVER vote for EITHER.
We need to stop SPENDING...and unfortunately...a LOT of people completely depend on government spending.
I guess the poor will all have jobs once the REAL war starts. We can start by drafting everyone on public assistance...what do you think about that? Women can join the military...they should be drafted too. We'll need everyone we can get out there when the Chinese attack with their several million man army.
I feel the regulation-deregulation argument doesn't matter until the criminals running the show are put behind bars. Lobbyists for business or unions writing rules and regulations is insanity. That's what we have right now.
No denial here. Systemic risk would have been limited to Wall Street however de-regulation brought systemic risk to commercial banks. For over 6 decades Glass Stegall said no to the mixing of investment and commercial banks and their respective services. Not to mention insurance and other vehicles.The western world is insolvent and is pretending like they aren't. I only have to look at the market, particularly interest rates and credit default swaps, to see that it is going to force the reality down our throats rather we like it or not. No amount of denial will stop it. Lest we not forget our balance sheet is multiples times worse than Greece's.
I can handle that.I would argue that we loose either way if it's heads or tails. Maybe you can argue that you loose a little less with one or the other, but over the course of time you and your family will loose. It's the illusion of choice.
I know what you mean but I probably have alternative irks.I'm sick of flipping the coin. I think many other Americans are sick of the two party paradigm as well.
Convenient to eschew non-partisan math as well.I understand the reality of the situation and I think it's hopeless. That's why I ignore it. Whenever we are at the point that it's ok to call a political philosophy something that it is not for the sake of convenience or popular culture then we are lost IMO.
I wouldn't know how to address those that don't look at revenues and the polar dynamics of. I understand the larger dynamic with the fed but we didn't get any bang for our buck giving the surplus back to the rich. Even if one suggests there was nothing to give back, the top and business as a whole has never had as much money as they do now. All the promises of tax cuts for the top... creating jobs and generating economies was anemic at best. In fact, we had just the opposite on global scale, contraction.Is it practical to call Neo-Conservative Progressives "conservative". Yes. Is it practical to call Neo-Liberal Progressives "liberal". Yes. Is it intellectually honest. No. Does it reek of propaganda to do so. Absolutely. When, as a society, we forgo intellectual honesty to satisfy a simpler version of the truth then we are in real trouble.
I don't just look at numbers on a piece of paper. I watched us fall apart with trickle-up. Do all these folks at the top merely assume they have more money?I don't think it wise to trust an organization who is continuously wrong all the time. How can you say their numbers aren't politicized? Congress gives them a bunch of assumptions to do their calculations. Then they calculate the results which are usually wrong by multiple factors. The numbers coming from Congress are politicized (ie growth projections) so the results will be politicized. Equations are only as good as the assumptions that make them up. Garbage in, garbage out.
Interesting news coming out of China. Inching closer to a western world default.
China ratings house says US defaulting: report AFP
I believe we will raise the debt ceiling. There will be some silly window dressing to pretend like we are going to do something about the debt and deficit. We will kick the can down the road until the bond market collapses or the Chinese are forced to jump off the sinking ship that is the Dollar and let the Yuan appreciates.
We don't have to go to war with China. All they have to to is stop buying our debt and the party is over. It will hurt them too, but we are painting them into a corner right now.
I love this sentence and think it would read even better:
"Once people are allowed to KEEP more of THEIR own property, the collective has stolen LESS from them."
I believe that was JoeUsers point. NONE of the future predictions mean two shits, because none of them are ever correct.
The how it is bull shit is obvious, this country never saw a year where the national debt decreased during the years in question and had a 13 trillion national debt in 2010 therefore the projected surpluses of 5.7T in 2010 is and was bullshit.
That graph that goes out to 2019 is similarly bullshit.
I love this sentence and think it would read even better:
"Once people are allowed to KEEP more of THEIR own property, the collective has stolen LESS from them."
Socialized losses really started with Savings and Loan Crisis. Auto companies have been bailed out before too. Now it's just one big bailout kick the can down the road fascist party. The systemic risk could have been limited to Wall Street if we hadn't been scared into bailing them out (fascism). Glass Stegall was a good idea, but it didn't stop systemic risk from being passed to the taxpayer during the S&L. Another example of fascism. What's the point of regulations when they aren't enforced because the regulators are owned by Wall Street. If bad companies never collapse, but are instead compensated with tax payer money what incentive is their to change? They should have all collapsed. Yes it would have sucked, but trust me when the day of reckoning comes for all this kicking the can down the road it is going to be exponentially more painful. The free market will win out. It always does.No denial here. Systemic risk would have been limited to Wall Street however de-regulation brought systemic risk to commercial banks. For over 6 decades Glass Stegall said no to the mixing of investment and commercial banks and their respective services. Not to mention insurance and other vehicles.
True. But again, if we had just let the free market do it's thing and let these companies collapse the bad business practices would have been purged.Graham Leach Bliley (the repeal of Glass Stegall aka de-regulation of the principal banking divisions) unleashed quick money schemes on what was once predominantly low to medium risk.
We have become a Banana Republic yes. But I contend that is because we do not let the free market work. We prop up bad companies with taxpayer money (fascism) and have been doing it before GLB.Do you accept that 20x executive compensation in the 1970s exceeds 400x today? To me that's the kind of proof that keeps us from having to wonder what it would be like with 19th century politics. If you weren't JP Getty you had a shotgun shack, a mule and potato blight growing in the garden.
The real problem with the US economy is government and special interests. If politicians vote to spend money they don't have, they should be liable for our debt - not the citizens.
TBO, I think you're undulating. We can't hold those you suggest liable w/o them having the stuff to back up their busts. What we can do is re-regulate the division between commercial and investment banks the way we had for ~65 years. None of this level of fraud ever occurred with the firewall in place. At least outside the top on-tenth-of-one-percent.We should hold politicians and lobbyists liable for all debt incurred during their tenure, not the taxpayers. Blaming people who make money and pay taxes for the economic mess makes no sense. They didn't cause it. The top 5 percent of income earners pay over 80 percent of the taxes. The lower 50 percent of income earners pay no taxes, but they are the beneficiaries of government handouts. Is this fair?
Classic class-warfare is no different than hating government if you fluff civics and economics and pontificate a free market system that's eating your lunch.You can work your ass off and be penalized for it, or, you can be a lazy bum and get paid for it. That's fair?
I'm tired of the class warfare and blaming successful people. Think responsibility, not entitlements.
Income taxes should be illegal. Sales taxes should be illegal. Huge, useless government should be illegal.
Say what you want, socialism sucks!
The topic of Americans living mortgage-free in foreclosed homes on which banks do not have proper titles is nothing new - in fact we are surprised that there isn't a robosignature app for that...yet. Neither is the fact that this ongoing reverse capital transfer provides as much as $50 billion in "rental" income for those same squatters. And while the ethical arguments for strategically defaulting on one's mortgage can get very heated on both sides, one thing is certain: the ongoing foreclosure crisis is creating a new subclass of "entitled" people, who certainly enjoy living on the back of the banks, while not paying one cent, and not vacating the premises. According to a new article by CNNMoney, some of the excesses observed within this latest demonstration of unearned entitlement are truly staggering. To wit: "Charles and Jill Segal have not made a mortgage payment in nearly five years -- but they continue to live in their five-bedroom West Palm Beach, Fla. home....Lynn, from St. Petersburg, Fla., has been living without paying for three years....In Thousand Oaks, Calif., an actor has missed 30 payments, and still, he has not lost his home...." In other words, what were once isolated incidents are becoming an epidemic, and like it or not, are creating a massive capital shortfall in bank balance sheets (after all "assets" are supposed to generate cash in most cases), which will likely involve yet another broad taxpayer bailout of these same banks that now have no recourse to do much if anything to evict these same squatters who instead of paying their mortgage (or rent), prefer to purchase trinkets and gizmos. "Some 4.2 million mortgage borrowers are either seriously delinquent or have had their cases referred to lawyers to pursue foreclosure auctions, according to LPS Applied Analytics. Of those, two-thirds have made no payments at all for at least a year, and nearly one-third have gone more than two years."
Here's the moral hazard I was talking about that is slowly killing this country. Moral hazard is really the heart of the problem. Moral hazard is the systemic rot that trickles down to the proles from the corrupt ruling class and rots the country from the inside out.
It pays to scam the system. Honest people are suckers. As more and more commoners and petty bourgeois figure this out the system collapses on itself.
Meet The Squatters: Here Are The Millions Of Americans Who Live Mortgage-Free For Up To 5 Years And Counting
Looks like two sides of the coin pointing the finger at each other.(CNN Money) -
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- The California and Illinois attorneys general have issued subpoenas to big mortgage servicing firms accused of rubber-stamping foreclosure documents, expanding their investigations into the firms.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan sent subpoenas to two Florida servicers -- Lender Processing Services Inc. and Nationwide Title Clearing Inc. -- as part of her probe into so-called robosigning practices, according to Madigan's office.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris issued subpoenas to Lender Processing Services on Wednesday, her office said.
Harris is creating a new "mortgage fraud strike force," a state panel staffed with attorneys and investigators who will dig into "every step of the mortgage process," from origination to the sale of mortgage-backed securities, her office said.
"California homeowners have been exposed to fraud and crime at every step of the mortgage process," Harris said in a statement. "Justice demands we come to their aid, and a key step in that is to investigate robosigning and the potential for inaccurate or unjust foreclosures."
(Link inside the Zero-Hedge article)
Who in their right mind would pay the monthly bubble when the whole thing stinks to the tune 4.5 million homeowners?(Yet another Money CNN artcal that Zero-Hedge gives zero consideration) - These cases can go on and on. Nationwide, it takes an average of 565 days to foreclose on borrowers in default from their first missed payments to the final auction. In New York, the average is 800 days and in Florida, where the "robo-signing" issue is particularly combative, it's 807.If they want to fight evictions hard, borrowers can remain in their homes even longer while their cases are being worked through.
(linked from the first Money CNN article
Wall Street banks face New York mortgage probe(Money CNN) The two mortgage servicing companies under investigation are not among those in top-secret talks with federal agencies and state attorneys general over a proposed settlement of allegations that thousands of homeowners wrongly faced foreclosure.However, Lender Processing Services and Nationwide Title Clearing work for the banks in talks with the attorneys general, including Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), Wells Fargo (WFC, Fortune 500), JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500), Citigroup (C, Fortune 500) and Ally Financial (GJM).
Those big banks are in talks with regulators that could result in a multi-billion-dollar pool of money that could be used to help struggling homeowners.
follow the yellow dick toad...Lavish gifts for robo-signers (more Money CNN) Lender Processing Services processes loans for more than 50% of all U.S. mortgages, according to the Illinois attorney general's office. Nationwide Title Clearing is smaller but works for eight of the top 10 lenders, Madigan's office said.
Calls to Lender were not immediately returned.
A Nationwide spokeswoman said the company had not received the subpoena and could not comment on the specifics.
"Nationwide Title Clearing welcomes the opportunity to help clear up common misconceptions surrounding the issue and wishes to help the public gain a deeper understanding of normal mortgage industry documents and processes," said Cassandra McSparin.
link easily found from the zero-hedge piece
... This is the same cancer that killed Rome.
I'm not saying a lot of people didn't get screwed. They were sold a deal to good too be true by some shyster mofo's. The robo-signging mess fraud is getting swept under the table because it basically states that nobody knows who owns what mortgage. It's a big pile of worthless crap ponzi paper. Conveniently quickly off the radar with a few meaningless slaps on the wrist fines. The entire securtization process is a fraud.
People are still getting sold the same shit too. See it advertised on tv for Quicken Loans. 7/1 ARM LOW INTEREST!!
You cannot deny however there is a very very large number of people who are strategically defaulting because they are under water. The banks don't want this bad debt on their already insolvent books so they are leaving the houses on the market. People get to stay. That is effectively removing the consequence of default. That is a real market phenomenon and that is incredibly dangerous.
I feel bad for the poor sods who got raped by banks. I do. It's this very institutional fraud that is perpetuated by the banks and allowed to continue unabated by the complicit governments that bleeds down to the general population. The immorality of it is that no one has gone to jail. This is the same cancer that killed Rome.
who was forced into signing a sub prime loan with no money down?For the sake of directly answering your question, the short answer is no. "Foreclosure limbo" might be at-best temporary consolation to folks that didn't do anything wrong, other than getting sucked into adjustable rate mortgages they weren't aware because they qualified for conventional or FHA loans.