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SpareChange9 months, 2 weeks ago
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So negative. just sounds like bitterness.
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If people are bitter because working families get a reduction on loans that doubled after 2 years, then just think about what YOU get out of it - stable home values, stable local government so you can have cops, firemen and other services.
It's chump change compared to the 1 trillion that wall street squandered with these bad deals.-
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normallysilent9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Sorry but I have trouble feeling sorry for anyone signing a variable rate mortgage. When you do it means you aren't planning on having the loan long. If you were looking on turning a quick buck putting it right back on the market than you deserve the same amount of help as any other investor in a business venture would receive.
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I am not for helping banks either by the way. They knew they were pushing high risk loans and deserve to loose their butts with the rest.-
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mesodude9 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Sorry but I have trouble feeling sorry for anyone signing a variable rate mortgage. When you do it means you aren't planning on having the loan long. "
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--We're always shocked when people who perpetually defend the ultra rich say such things, normallysilent. In any event, you don't have a basis for assuming that most of these homeowners acted out of greed or irresponsibility. You people seem to forget that OUR PRESIDENT and the GOP all but goaded Americans into living beyond their means. After 9/11 Bush told Americans to go out and spend, spend, spend and then he went on a wild spending spree of his own creating the largest government in history and cutting taxes for the ultra wealthy (which is one major contributing factor in this horrible mess here cons cannot deny-- but refuse to talk about).
If you were "normallysilent" when Bush was telling Americans to just say "charge" then you damned well need to shut up now. You're absolutely beyond belief, cons. GET SERIOUS. ;-(-
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tanglang9 months, 2 weeks ago
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"you don't have a basis for assuming that most of these homeowners acted out of greed or irresponsibility."
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I do. It is Never responsible to get into a variable rate loan. I hung up on mortgage companies that offered me that trash and thought that it was common sense to do so.
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mesodude9 months, 2 weeks ago
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One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.
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The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.
Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.
"Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?"
"Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the frog hesitantly.
"Because," the scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"
Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!"
"This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!"
"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog.
"Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"
So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.
Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.
"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"
The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.
"I could not help myself. It is my nature."
Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.
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