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Posted on 09/19/2010 8:02:18 AM PDT by blam
Momentum Gathers For A New, Massive Bailout Of Homeowners
Joe Weisenthal
Sep. 19, 2010, 8:48 AM
A new federal program that would be tasked with a massive refinancing of mortgages for strapped Americans has been chattered about for awhile, though The White House has never indicated that the idea is on the table.
But the calls are growing louder. This time it's from the NYT op-ed page, where former Bush advisor (and now Columbia business prof) Glenn Hubbard along with Columbia's Chris Mayer are calling for exactly that -- a massive new agency to bail out underwater homeowners via refinancing.
You can read the op-ed for details -- Hubbard and Mayer anticipate $50 billion in annual savings for homeowners -- though the one thing that's not there is principal reduction. So underwater homeowners under their plan -- though receiving lower interest rates -- would still be underwater.
That being said, at least they'd be able to refinance, which they can't easily do right now, so that would help.
Anyway, nothing like this is going to happen soon, but Obama needs to pull off something like this to start gaining momentum for 2012, and our guess is that this won't require any Congressional approval, because it could be done through the GSEs, with plenty of funding from Treasury and the Fed.
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You watch, Obama's program will use tax money to buy down the principal of low-income people. ("Everyone deserves the right to have a home")
“Momentun”? lulz.
More like more of idiots and idiocy...... =.=
However, the fine print is this...You are re-financing with The First last Bank of BOZ...so when the time comes for Universal Housing, they can throw you out and give your dwelling to the Party Faithful, while you go live in a one-room cell in a converted “Correctional Institution”
However, the fine print is this...You are re-financing with The First Last Bank of BOZ...so when the time comes for Universal Housing, they can throw you out and give your dwelling to the Party Faithful, while you go live in a one-room cell in a converted “Correctional Institution”
Looks like a bunch of spoiled brats pushing and shoving as they line up for their kool-aide!
I lost 170K in equity. Lost my 20% down payment. And I am still paying for this POS house. They bail them out, and I will still have to pay plus the 10k a year in taxes. I have the means to pay!! They do this, and I will walk away. I bet a lot of people in my situation will do the same.
If you have a mortgage, your not a ‘homeowner’.
“You watch, Obama’s program will use tax money to buy down the principal of low-income people. (”Everyone deserves the right to have a home”)”
...absolutely!!! and as we all know, the “right” to own a home was what got us into this mess to begin with...and BTW, the reason some homes are underwater is because property values have been run down by riff raff moving in the neighborhood....time was, people like that NEVER would have gotten a loan.
Problem. There is no tax money. It is all already spent and then some. They are spending a Trillion Dollars a year more than they get. Amazing.
Well lets hope they do the refinancing soon, while people are still working. This would of been a great idea about 3 years ago.
http://www.dailyjobcuts.com
And if you don't have a mortgage your still not a homeowner. Don't pay the property taxes and see who "owns" that home.
Yup.
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To own your property outright proves you are an evil capitalist oppressor of the proletariat. Your property will be confiscated and distributed to the proles.
My mortgage is paid off, too.
This would be a massive transfer of wealth from the financially responsible to the financially irresponsible.
Yes, I know: this is nothing new -- just the methodology is different.
Yes, I worked and paid mine off years ago. Surely there is some way we can get in on this "giveaway" too. Refinance, don't pay and then cry?
This is simply a way of harvesting all those poorly documented securitized mortgages the courts are throwing out...essentially “giving” the house to its owners.
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Any time you see a newspaper reporting that an inanimate object is taking action, it's time to haul out the Crap Detector. Momentum does not "gather." Calls do not "grow." Momentum only increases when an outside force — such as a reporter with an agenda — is applied. In newspaper parlance, calls "grow" when reporters collude on mailing lists like Journolist to write articles and columns selling the same line. Then they all quote each other and pretend that something spontaneous has happened, with the "calls" growing all by themselves.