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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 05:33 AM Original message |
Foreclosures at record high in first half 2009 despite aid |
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bulloney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 06:57 AM Response to Original message |
1. Loose distribution of credit. High unemployment. Trickle-down aid packages. Is anyone surprised? |
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corpseratemedia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:00 AM Response to Original message |
2. helping the banks to cash in on their bonuses, and not the people, was the big problem |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:19 AM Response to Original message |
3. Thanks a pantload, republicon 'conservatives' |
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Steerpike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:25 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. This is our mess now! |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:45 AM Response to Reply #4 |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:58 AM Response to Reply #5 |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 08:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. They're mess, our clean up. Sucks, but that's the reality. |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:59 AM Response to Original message |
7. What aid? The aid to the banks that have the mortgages in the first place or... |
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live love laugh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 05:08 PM Response to Reply #7 |
32. I know..."despite aid"????? First of all, whatever aid there was came in the2nd qtr. |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
9. an incredible loss to the economy. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:01 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. It's not really a loss to the economy in the long run |
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Steerpike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:11 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Whose buying up these firesale homes? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:18 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. People like my friend Dan the middle school teacher |
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Steerpike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:25 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Well that does not sound like a win for the previous owner. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:41 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I gave one anecdote based on a situation I have personal knowledge of |
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Steerpike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:47 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I appreciate your position. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:41 AM Response to Reply #16 |
22. We've had gluts of rental units before |
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Steerpike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:43 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I can see that. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:53 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. I think this is an unusually bad turndown that is the natural result of an unusually large bubble |
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Steerpike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:01 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Well sir, |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:03 PM Response to Reply #13 |
36. You list four categories as though they were mutually exclusive. |
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Steerpike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:36 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. I'm sorry I did not make myself clear enough. |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:27 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Of course it will consolidate ownership |
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Coventina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:49 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. My SIL & her husband were able to buy a home in LA. |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:20 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Of course people get bargains |
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Steerpike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:29 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. You are absolutely right! |
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Coventina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:32 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I specifically stated in my post that it would have been better |
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Steerpike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:36 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Yeah if you had to choose.... |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:42 PM Response to Reply #11 |
35. We bought one. |
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Steerpike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:49 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Well so speaks the elite. |
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Stellar (251 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:49 AM Response to Reply #10 |
24. I remember when Obama said early on, that our situation was dire. |
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Steerpike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:55 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. I just don't understand why . |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 01:46 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. "Why can't we survive without the rich?" |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
26. We're seeing a rapidly expanding number of "negative equity walkaways" around here. |
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Coventina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 01:33 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. It's happening a lot here as well. |
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DebbieCDC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
31. The banks/finance companies don't want to renegotiate these loans |
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live love laugh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 05:10 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Exactly. So the same to them. I'll give them my house. nt |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:47 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. If the banks have to renegotiate, they have to admit to losses on their books |
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