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FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:52 AM Original message |
If they Bailout the Financials – they must STOP the Foreclosures |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
1. I agree. Of course, nobody would ever make a mortgage payment again. |
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rateyes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:56 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Which might be a good thing. |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. That's what I tell people. Stop paying, save up the money and rent something. |
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Mesteryo (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:29 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. that's horrible advice... |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:33 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Borrowing money at interest for the privelege of engaging in real estate speculation is for idiots. |
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Mesteryo (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:38 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. that'll only work once.. |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:40 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Exactly. Time to put the lie to the bullshit of home ownership as the "american dream" |
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Mesteryo (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. yeah destroy the economy to prove a point... |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:52 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Renting doesn't force the middle class to become nonexistant, how the hell do you get that? |
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Mesteryo (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:00 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. no, not renting... |
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sentelle (659 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:20 PM Response to Reply #7 |
18. Here's a bad thought |
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Mesteryo (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. people struggling to repay ARMs |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 02:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. No it didn't. It bought the bad debt and we will absorb the losses while AIG |
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Mesteryo (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 03:37 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. that's not the AIG deal... |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:07 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. We will see. The WSJ, bastion of unbiased reporting that it is, has put |
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Mesteryo (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:17 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. WSJ editorial board is right-wing.. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:21 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Since we do not have access to the details there is no way to "prove" this assertion |
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Mesteryo (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 05:06 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. actually we do know details.. |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:47 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. asked? we're not being asked. |
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Mesteryo (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:56 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. nobody asked me to pay for roads either |
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K Gardner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
29. Good lord.. rent is more $ for less "house" than my mortgage payment.. |
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FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:00 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. No - they should be given fixed interest loans |
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Mesteryo (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. ARMs were a good thing.. |
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Democrats_win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
3. Agreed. But tomorrow the Sheriff will continue throwing our fellow Americans onto the street. |
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Mesteryo (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. why should other people be skipping out.. |
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Mesteryo (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
6. that's all we need... |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
12. Brilliant. I'd like to hear McCain argue against it. k+r, n/t |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
13. Then explain to me why anyone would ever make another mortgage payment? |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:44 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Couldn't terms be set on that part as well? |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
22. Picture this: 5 million Americans descend on D.C. |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:06 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Not a bad idea! (n/t) |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:19 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. Yes, that would be a powerful statement to those crooks in DC that |
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