gipper
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FU.Antidotal.It is evident to some of us, that our central government has been completely captured by the billionaires and millionaires...the transnational capitalist class.1) buyers were told they would be able to cash in because the home would increase in value so much by the time the ARM ballooned. They were lied to and did not understand. They were not told the US prime was not the basis, so they did not know their payments would almost double if the economy went south.
2) Parents remember the way it used to be, when tuition was capped and reasonable. The fact 18 year old die over seas mean they CAN'T make decisions like this, because they don't have the experience. If they could make these sorts of decisions, they would NOT be dying over seas in stupid and absurd wars against countries that never harmed us.
3) but yes we agree lenders should not be handing out money so freely, and tuition is too high. And yes, some majors are stupid.
Democrats and Republican RINO politicians forced lenders to lower lending requirements. Why? So people who could not get approved for a home loan due to their income and debt would now qualify for a mortgage. These lending standards were in place to both protect the lender and the borrower. Once removed this enabled millions to get approved for the worst types of mortgages and ultimately lead to massive home loan defaults.
Keep going...because these loans did not meet standard lending requirements none of the traditional secondary mortgage markets would buy the loans to hold long term. So all kinds of whacky 'investment' vehicles were invented to buy up the loans. Eventually these same politicians lowered the Fannie and Freddie standards so that they could buy up the bad loans. When the default wave hit this wiped them out.
So thank your politicians for sticking their nose where it didn't belong and screwing up yet something else that wasn't broken in the first place.
We have a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
When will all Americans realize this?
I am not remotely rich and I like our Gov't? I am middle class. Modern home, two cars, wife, two kids. I don't have the life of Brad Pitt but I am happy with what I do have, not what I do not have.
Means ZERO.
I do question your sanity, when you state you like our government.
You mean anecdotal? I just proved you wrong. If you don't like it then leave? LOL.