President Obama during his State of the Union speech Tuesday debuted a new plan aimed at fixing one part of the housing crisis, saying that he would soon send Congress a bill to help some people refinance their mortgages.
Obama said he was sending lawmakers “a plan that gives every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage, by refinancing at historically low interest rates. No more red tape. No more runaround from the banks.”
The president proposed to pay for his plan by taxing banks.
“A small fee on the largest financial institutions will ensure that it won’t add to the deficit, and will give banks that were rescued by taxpayers a chance to repay a deficit of trust.”
A government program allowing underwater homeowners to refinance their loans would constitute a bailout, essentially forgiving large amounts of debt they currently owe.
Aw, that sounds nice, doesn’t it? Debts forgiven and new starts? But it’s on the backs of others.
This is what I emailed my friend in return:
The American Dream was never guaranteed and nobody ever said it would be easy. But it’s not an entitlement program.That’s it. I’m converting. I’m too old to fight this bullshit any more, obviously. And it’s gone too far for anything but a revolution to put right [let Google eat those words!]
I give up. I’m a Democrat now. Take care of me. Put gas in my car, food on my table, give me a place to live and a cell phone to call my Maury friends [shudder]. OH and let’s not forget free health care! ALL the fucking entitlements! Oh, I’m joining a union, too, so give me a pension I never earned!
As if. But I will tell you this: for the first time in a very long time I doubt I will bother to vote in our primary Tuesday. The fix is in and my mindset is decidedly negative these days. There is no more news; it is information to be controlled by the Ministry of Truth and expelled through their media arms.
When I saw that a single company would control our votes and how easy it would be to manipulate them… well, if it’s easily done then someone will do it. Someone with Soros money.Remember, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
27. January 2012 at 9:42 am
you forgot the company that controls our votes is not in the former USA but France I think
27. January 2012 at 10:31 am
Mais oui!
27. January 2012 at 11:48 am
come on gurl – go pull the lever for Santorum for me. Please? Can’t.take.newt!
but…. ahhhhhhhhhhhh
Can’t.take.mitt.
Not that I think Santorum hung the
27. January 2012 at 12:28 pm
Sorry, no. I have that disease called Voter Apathy. Feel sorry for me.
27. January 2012 at 1:25 pm
oh wow – did i put that
up there? sure din’t mean to…
at least you get to vote while there is a choice. by may when i finally get to the polls it will all be…moot… rhymes with? ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
screw it – i’m going to the grocery store while i can still put gas in the car.
27. January 2012 at 1:47 pm
Gas in Liz a few days ago: $62. Good luck!
I don’t care about the
. It’s part of my new apathy plan. Heh heh heh…
27. January 2012 at 1:27 pm
and i feel sorry for all of us Damn It!….. erg
27. January 2012 at 1:49 pm
So do I.
27. January 2012 at 1:29 pm
I will participating if for no other reason than to keep Newt out. He’s crazier and more dangerous than Obama is and in the opposite direction.
We are quickly becoming what China and Japan were after World War II. A shadow of our former selves and our former glory.
End Nafta. End Immigration bullshit – that’s the equivalent of Clinton asking what “I” meant or the Supreme Court trying to decide what pornography is. We all KNOW what it is and what it means, no one’s got the balls (but the Goveneor of Arizona) to stand up and do it.
Unfortunately I don’t think 2012 is the end of the world on the Mayan calendar but the end of the United States on the Obama calendar. And I’m railing and will not go quietly into that dark night, because it’s not good.
27. January 2012 at 1:57 pm
Sigh. Crazy, nastyass Newt. Newt don’t care. Don’t worry, he’s got more of a chance of becoming pregnant than he does of winning the nomination.
We are not the once great nation we were. A lot of people moved here from other places, people whose view of great does not equal ours. And they are fundamentally changing America from within – and without. The metamorphosis is hardly complete, but they’re make good headway.
And we stand for it all.
27. January 2012 at 4:02 pm
not me man. i ain’t standin for nothin. i’m sittin here on my
27. January 2012 at 6:47 pm
Good for you, Patti!
27. January 2012 at 8:28 pm
I’m registered Independent so I don’t vote in the primary. I can’t decide who I dislike the least. Maybe I’ll run for President. Anyone want to help?
27. January 2012 at 8:35 pm
No. I’m apathetic, sorry.
28. January 2012 at 12:50 am
We aren’t voting in the top slot to fix the country.. We are voting to slow the destruction while we concentrate on Congress and the fifty State Houses. It will take at least three or four election cycles to clean out Congress.
Meanwhile the country is like the Titanic steaming toward that iceberg at all ahead full. So if we elect any of these Republicans to the White House the best we can hope for is the throttles being pulled back, Mitt to all ahead two thirds, Santorum to all ahead half and Newt to all ahead slow.
Will that be enough to keep the country out of the watery deeps? I dunno but I have to try.
28. January 2012 at 7:55 am
And I agree with you. Just don’t tell anyone; that would ruin my new ‘apathetic’ cred.