Rates are expected to decline as credit availability increases due to the liquidity added by the feds. This won’t help those homeowners whose adjustable rate loans are due for adjustment in the near term. And before we get too excited about easy money again, let’s not forget that in the long term the Federal Reserve will have to raise rates, probably significantly, to fight the inflation that will emerge as a result of the Treasury’s spending right now. What this situation will mean for the foreclosure rate in this country is clear – it will go through the roof.
If only our leaders would read the Constitution before they take an oath to it. They would learn that it does not allow the federal government to transfer wealth, bailout industry, or own banks. The founders knew that to give this authority to the politicians would infringe on the rights of citizens and screw up the economy. Recently, while reassuring the American people that the United States was not fundamentally changing its economic system through all of this government intervention, President Bush said, “democratic capitalism is the greatest system ever devised.” I suggest the President heed his own words and let our free market system fix itself.
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1 - Ms. Know
The Liberal Illuminati will allow America to feel the urgency to buy more things, even with the bailout plan. The truth of the matter is these Ivy-League politicians should tell us to hold on to our money, instead of get further into debt.
2 - moon
I think that some measure of mass psychosis has taken over Gringolandia--it clearly was beginning to show its symptomology before 9/11, but after that date it became full-blown.
Looking at the situation from the outside--and even from the inside, as I was just in McCain's state of Arizona a couple of weeks ago for 10 days--it absolutely boggles my mind that folks who elected a man with a dramatically below normal IQ to be their president, their face to the rest of the world, expected that singularly damaged person to make WISE decisions in their name.
This is way beyond the satire of Hal Ashby's film, "Being There", with its much-touted Peter Sellers performance as a retarded gardener who became a presidential adviser. In this case the guy who was too damaged to even function as a gardener (I wouldn't let Bush anywhere near MY rose bushes, I can tell you) IS the president. And YOU voted for him.
The OP says the founding fathers were brilliant men. I don't know that there has ever been any evidence of their brilliance--but by the same token they were not retarded men. They had the skills to oversee plantations teeming with African slaves and run successful businesses, whereas Bush failed extravagantly at every business he was involved in.
WHY, in the name of pure common sense, would you expect Bush to be successful in a BIGGER business arena when he failed in the bush leagues (sorry, but that's the term)?
There were no best laid plans here. All there was was giving money--billions of dollars of it--to cronies who told the little guy that he could wear the pointed hat of presidentialism for them.
Read the Constitution? This is a man who cannot read. Folks with IQs in the 70s have severe problems lining up their eyes to read, much less keeping the letters in proper order. But when this man TOLD you, on nationwide tv, that he couldn't speak or read English you thought he was JOKING!
Frankly, what I am seeing and hearing from Gringolandia are gringos trying to blame their woes and their upcoming greater woes on somebody else: Hugo Chavez, who overcharged them for the gas in their SUVs--or the president of Iran, or Putin--or the doggone Bogey Man.
This kind of infantilism leads directly to the abyss, folks.
Get a grip--that slope is getting steeper by the second, and it is all downhill.