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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:07 PM Original message |
ALRIGHT, SERIOUSLY- Why not bail out the HOMEOWNERS?? |
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lob1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
1. Are you kidding? Who gets to steal money that way? |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. No giveaways -- refinance over a longer period up to 99 years |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. There is a program for that |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Well, it's apparently not working well enough. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:17 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. I agree completely with that |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
3. Because none of this is about us. All of this theater |
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The Magistrate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. That Is What Should Be Done, Sir |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
5. This is another case of the filthy rich getting filthier. They're pilfering the Treasury. Again. nt |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
6. Why not indeed? |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 06:06 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. agree in principal, but only if the homeowner |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 11:06 AM Response to Reply #21 |
28. I would say that would be true in 75% or so of the cases |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 07:52 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. Not neccessarily, |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 06:08 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. What do you do with the home owners |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 11:05 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Public housing |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:01 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. What is wrong with living in apartment. |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
7. Or offer the money at 0% to banks to loan at 5% to 8% |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Exactly- that's actually a great idea. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
9. And while we're at it, how about helping me out with some gasoline money? |
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NC_Nurse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
11. A lot of these bad loans went to investors who were flipping, IOW trying to |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:24 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Agreed. |
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NC_Nurse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:37 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I agree completely. The hardest hit are single moms - they NEED the help. |
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tritsofme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
14. We wouldn't be sending $700b into a blackhole. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:33 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. No matter what amount of money is put into this, careful scrutiny of every expenditure is essential |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
18. What about all of us who are paying our mortgages |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:48 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. We get the satisfaction of helping out the 4% or so of people who can't make their payments |
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Buns_of_Fire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
20. It makes perfectly good sense (with a little tweaking here and there). |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
23. instead of bailing out Wall Street from the top down they should start from the bottom up. |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
24. Because the GOP/media would call us "radical socialists" if we did that. |
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dana_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 11:18 AM Response to Reply #24 |
30. socialism has been given a baaaaad rap. |
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dansolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
25. Agreed - wouldn't it be good to make the toxic securities less toxic? |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
26. Doesn't fit RNC credo -- Country Club First !! //n |
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dana_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 11:19 AM Response to Reply #26 |
31. LOL |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
29. It would be nice to try a trickle-UP scheme for once. n/t |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
32. It only became a "crisis" when international financiers started losing money. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
33. prepare your flame suit.... |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-26-08 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
36. It is in the senate bill |
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