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Posts: 580
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: USA
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24-06-09, 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Buu
What's your point?
So let's talk about his appointments. All pro-Israeli hawks.
Let's look at this policies and actions. $1trillion bailout for the banks, blocked efforts to allow home owners breaks or file for bankruptcy.
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I was hoping we could all stay on topic but whatever. 
To the points above,
I don't get this. Would it be better if they were anti-Israeli hawks? I mean, I don't get it.
Also, about allowing home owners breaks, what homeowners specifically?
My man and I own a home and have faithfully paid our mortgage for years now. A couple of months ago, when the economy was hitting the tank and we were worried about losing our jobs, we approached our lender to see if they might be willing to work with us on lowering our interest rate just in case. We figured since we'd been on it all along and hadn't ever gone in the red, we would be the prime candidates.
The answer? No.
They weren't trying and aren't trying to work with us on nothing, because we have proved that we can pay and have never defaulted.
And now we've seen the value of our house go down because of foreclosures in the neighborhood. Imagine that. How we feel.
I have friends who went and purchased huge homes in Jersey, Upstate or over in Rhode Island. People who make the same amount of money we do and definitely couldn't afford what they bought. Some lost their jobs, some saw their pay get decreased. Now they can't keep up with payments and are bitching about the fact that there's no reprieve for them. These people knew they couldn't afford those homes yet went ahead and bought them anyway. So they're supposed to get some slack or a break and not folks who've been paying on time and bought homes in places they could afford??
What about those folks who've seen debt on their homes outweigh the value (and they aren't defaulting) because of foreclosures?
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