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Unabating Foreclosures Ravage Southern California
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Posted on 01/31/2008 12:11:12 AM PST by bshomoic
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posted on
01/31/2008 12:11:13 AM PST
by
bshomoic
To: bshomoic
Janice Rutherford is a city councilwoman in Fontana. Her neighbors lost their house to foreclosure. She figures they paid about $250,000 for the house. By the time the bank repossessed it, the neighbors owed more than twice that amount: They had borrowed repeatedly against its inflated value, and when values slumped, they were "upside down" on their mortgage with negative equity. And we're now supposed to feel sorry for these idiots and bail them out?
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posted on
01/31/2008 12:12:52 AM PST
by
bshomoic
To: bshomoic
Could this have been brought on by our education system? “Hey kids, you can have it all”.
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posted on
01/31/2008 12:13:44 AM PST
by
taxesareforever
(Never forget Matt Maupin)
To: bshomoic
NPR’s headline is trying to draw an analogy to wildfires.
Have they ever had an article headlined with Unabating Illegal Imigration Ravages Southern California???
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posted on
01/31/2008 12:22:18 AM PST
by
weegee
(Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
To: taxesareforever
Could this have been brought on by our education system? Hey kids, you can have it all.
That attitude has far more to do with commercials and the other trappings of consumer society.
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posted on
01/31/2008 12:33:59 AM PST
by
ketsu
To: bshomoic
This year, the American People are going to cry out for Socialism in their foolishness and lack of application of Conservative and Biblical principles to personal finance as well as the affairs of the national budget.
And John McCain OR Hillary Clinton (actually, both of them, because one will be President and one will remain a liberal, voting Senator), will give it to them.
God Help The Great United States Of America.
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posted on
01/31/2008 1:05:21 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Enough has been said already. The 2008 GOP RINO takeover is complete. It is what it is.)
To: bshomoic
Janice Rutherford is a city councilwoman in Fontana. Her neighbors lost their house to foreclosure. She figures they paid about $250,000 for the house. By the time the bank repossessed it, the neighbors owed more than twice that amount: They had borrowed repeatedly against its inflated value, and when values slumped, they were "upside down" on their mortgage with negative equity.
It is the folks who have borrowed irresponsibly who are at fault. This is a clear example. Buy more house than you can really afford, with a loan that you cannot afford, and continue to borrow the "equity" out of it if/when you actually see any (which there never was to begin with).
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posted on
01/31/2008 1:08:20 AM PST
by
TheBattman
(LORD God, please give us a Christian Patriot with a backbone for President in 08, Amen.)
To: bshomoic
Think of all the bargain homes.
Now people who couldn’t afford a home can.
That is if they can qualify for a loan.
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posted on
01/31/2008 1:24:02 AM PST
by
TLOne
(All terrorists want is for us to bow and worship their god. Oh, and to let them rule.)
To: bshomoic
“...people using their property like ATM machines...”
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posted on
01/31/2008 1:46:59 AM PST
by
NoLibZone
(If the Clinton years were so great, why is Osama doing so well?)
To: bshomoic
Foreclosures in our county peaked in 2003 with a little over 1,700. Dropped steadily until 2006.
I forget the numbers but 2007 was only up 5% from 2006.
Of course a big chunk of our foreclosures have been Double Wide Manufactured homes.
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posted on
01/31/2008 2:53:55 AM PST
by
PeteB570
(NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
To: bshomoic
>>> her monthly mortgage payment soared to $3,000 from $1,700. With just her Social Security and pension income<<<<
People without a job, living on a fixed income, should probably not have mortgage or at least not an adjustable one..
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posted on
01/31/2008 3:49:40 AM PST
by
Kid Shelleen
(Aztlan My Azz: La Raza is Spanish for Tan Klan)
To: bshomoic
And we're now supposed to feel sorry for these idiots and bail them out?Keating Five to the rescue!
To: bshomoic
California’s usual four seasons, fire, flood, earthquake, and drought.
Now adding foreclosure as a fifth season?
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posted on
01/31/2008 5:35:22 AM PST
by
CPOSharky
(Energy plan: Build refineries and nuke plants, drill for our oil, mine our coal.)
To: bshomoic
By the time the bank repossessed it, the neighbors owed more than twice that amount: They had borrowed repeatedly against its inflated value, and when values slumped, they were "upside down" on their mortgage with negative equity. Stories similar to this of people using their property like ATM machines are plentiful in this region of Southern California, known as the Inland Empire. "I feel bad that people got themselves in over their heads. People in these houses borrowed against the future, spent money they didn't have.
And I DON'T have any sympathy at all. Nor do I feel any obligation to bail them or the banks out of this mess. Not like anyone will ask me of course.
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posted on
01/31/2008 5:41:53 AM PST
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
To: taxesareforever
I guess the Rats are right. The dumb Sheeple DO need the mommy government to run their sorry lives.
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posted on
01/31/2008 5:43:14 AM PST
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
To: bshomoic
Does anyone in Calif remember what happened when Klinton killed the aerospace industry in the LA area? Prices dropped like a stone. My parents bought into a retirement community in the mid 90s for about 150,000 guess how much it is worth today? Real estate always has ups and downs and people have short memories.
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posted on
01/31/2008 6:12:07 AM PST
by
q_an_a
To: bshomoic
A family loots the value of their house to buy a $100,000 motor home for vacations. Can I get a ride ?
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posted on
01/31/2008 6:27:28 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
To: bshomoic
7,700 homeowners lost their homes to foreclosure — a 719 percent increase in just one year. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ It's so unfair that these people are expected to pay or get foreclosed on. There should be a government program set up to pay mortgages. Single payer system comes to mind like the proposed healthcare system. We can fund this program by raising taxes just on the rich, those making more than $10,000 per year. /sarc
To: bshomoic; All
Hubby just heard on the radio of a business which helps thwart foreclosures by having folks ‘trade’ mortgages. Seems to be working ~ WITHOUT government intervention.
Good ol’ fashioned American capitalism. “;^)
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posted on
01/31/2008 6:48:27 AM PST
by
b9
To: bshomoic
"I feel bad that people got themselves in over their heads. People in these houses borrowed against the future, spent money they didn't have. Our government does the same thing, so it's no surprise that people think, 'Hey, this is the way to do it,' " Rutherford says. Um, Bushs fault?
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posted on
01/31/2008 6:58:02 AM PST
by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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