Capital Commerce

Toxic Legislation for Toxic Debt

By James Pethokoukis

Posted: September 26, 2008

It is clear to me that Republicans in Congress are very mindful of what happened to Democrats who voted for President Clinton's 1993 tax and budget proposal. They got wiped out in the 1994 midterm elections. On Monday, there were 150 or more GOP-ers in the House ready to vote for the bailout. But a week of no financial Armageddon and lots of angry constituent feedback mean now there are maybe 50 ready to agree to the evolving Paulson plan.

Headline News report

headline News just showed a coulpe of blogs that showed people suggesting that, instead of bailing out companies, that amount of money is enough to give every taxpayer between $750K and $1M apiece. THats actually enough for everyone to pay off their mortgages and posssibly other debt. Too bad noone in our government would ever consider it. They would much rather loan taxpayer's money to banks and lending institutions who will then add interest to it and loan it back to us taxpayer, thereby making a nice profit for themselves.

MET9 of CT @ Sep 28, 2008 18:40:01 PM

Detox That Debt!!!

Somehow, this toxic debt must detoxed by lowering the risk and auctioning it off to the highest bidder. It is only toxic because the orginal purchaser was mislead by bullstuff. The risk can be lowered by refis, payment adjustment or other means and an auction allows for price readjustment by market forces. What is really worrisome about this entire mess is that while talk has been about the bailout, the original cause continues to exist. These markets must be reregulated before bailout!!!

Ray Fisher of NM @ Sep 28, 2008 13:21:12 PM

A Manufactured Crisis

Hi Everyone,

The reason I am writing this is to remind all those that may have forgotten, or never even heard of, how our current economic crisis mirrors the Stock Market crash that created the Great Depression. I understand that many people know about how terrible the Great Depression was and how it effected our economy. What most people don't know is how it was manufactured and how closely our current economic crisis resembles the Great Depression.

In the roaring 20s Wall St. banks decided it would be a good idea to allow regular people play the stock market by buying stocks with only 10% actual currency while the bank retained the remaining 90% ownership, yet allowing the trader to maintain 100% of the control. The catch was that the bank could call in these loans at anytime and the loan had to be paid within 24 hours. The loan was called a margin loan and when it was called in, that was called a Margin Call.

So, the sleeze behind the Banking system, names like Warsburg, J.P. Morgan, Rockefeller, Roosevelt and most notoriously, Rothschild, made the decision to deliberately crash the market by doing a widespread Margin Call. Calling in all these loans simultaneously resulted in many thousands of traders being forced to sell their stocks in order to immediately pay back their Margin Loans. This in turn led directly to the collapse of the Stock Market. There is a lot more to this story and many other BIG names to mention, but you can go Google that yourself. Just look it up and you'll find the truth.

Now let's come to present day with the Predatory Lending scandal that has ultimately led our economy to this point. Back in 2003 and 2004 several huge lenders owned by the same family names as mentioned above decided it would be a good idea to lend a great many billions of dollars to millions of Americans that simply could not afford the large loans they were receiving from these people. In turn, this created an inflated market value of Real Estate because so many people were competing to "flip" homes with their overrated loan approvals. This process created a housing market bubble that would last across a 3 year period. By late 2005 this bubble began to deflate, real estate values dropped like a rock and the crisis had begun.

At this point I would like to deviate for a moment to another event that occurred around Christmas time in 2005 that most people don't even know about. While most of Washington was away on winter vacation for the holidays, a most sinister agreement was pushed through Congress, the Senate and signed off on by President Bush himself. This agreement is called the North American Union Agreement (NAU) and basically makes Canada, the United States and Mexico borderless. This agreement ties the three economies together and essentially "Unifies" the three sovereign nations under one umbrella.

Read more here:

http://www.johnnyk4congress.com/blog/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=26

Agent Orange

Agent Orange of FL @ Sep 27, 2008 22:22:32 PM

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