HOUSE OF CARDS on CNBC tonight Thurs Feb 12th

[nostradamus]

I thought it was funny. All the FB’s on that show were accepting a small part of the blame yet shifting the majority of blame to the lenders. The lenders, in turn, were saying “nobody put a gun to their head and made them sign”.

What really cracked me up was how the FB’s were shown singing to Jesus and thanking god.

[jpinpb]

Oh, yeah. The one lady that lived in the ghetto goes to her half million dollar house and was praising the lord. It showed her all excited w/dollar signs in her eyes when her house went up in value. Alleluliah!! (I guess greed is good in any religion. ) Then shows her all indignant about it later when she’s about to lose her house. I’m crying a river. Someone get me a canoe.

[jpinpb]

Oh, yeah. The one lady that lived in the ghetto goes to her half million dollar house and was praising the lord. It showed her all excited w/dollar signs in her eyes when her house went up in value. Alleluliah!! (I guess greed is good in any religion. ) Then shows her all indignant about it later when she’s about to lose her house. I’m crying a river. Someone get me a canoe.

[jpinpb]

Oh, yeah. The one lady that lived in the ghetto goes to her half million dollar house and was praising the lord. It showed her all excited w/dollar signs in her eyes when her house went up in value. Alleluliah!! (I guess greed is good in any religion. ) Then shows her all indignant about it later when she’s about to lose her house. I’m crying a river. Someone get me a canoe.

[jpinpb]

Oh, yeah. The one lady that lived in the ghetto goes to her half million dollar house and was praising the lord. It showed her all excited w/dollar signs in her eyes when her house went up in value. Alleluliah!! (I guess greed is good in any religion. ) Then shows her all indignant about it later when she’s about to lose her house. I’m crying a river. Someone get me a canoe.

[jpinpb]

Oh, yeah. The one lady that lived in the ghetto goes to her half million dollar house and was praising the lord. It showed her all excited w/dollar signs in her eyes when her house went up in value. Alleluliah!! (I guess greed is good in any religion. ) Then shows her all indignant about it later when she’s about to lose her house. I’m crying a river. Someone get me a canoe.

[ralphfurley]

[quote=Scarlet]The thing that really struck me about this show (and no one has mentioned it yet) is the houses these people we were expected to feel sorry for are living in.

Didn’t anyone else notice??????

Lower income people living in very large, very new, very fancy 3 car garage stucco palaces.

If I lived in Normalville USA I’d be so super pissed that there is even any consideration to “saving” these people’s mini-mansions.
[/quote]

I was wondering that myself. How one thinks going from a shitbox in Compton to an ok house in Yorba Linda is on the up-and-up. I thought it was pricey to rent there, much less own.

Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.

Why the hell would anyone feel sorry for these people? I think I put more time and research into buying my 40 dollar computer speakers, than these people did into what type of loan they were getting.

[quote=Scarlet]Hey middle America you get to fund our fancy lifestyles and you get to be taxed to death to pay for my stucco-palace Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Thanks Obama![/quote]

My understanding is that a third of this stimulus bill is tax cuts. I don’t see where Obama is taxing us to death.

Another third is for aiding those who are in desperate shape. So my neighbor doesn’t break in and stab me to death for a box of Cheerios. And the other third is spending (infrastructure, a few jobs here and there). I don’t think it will go very far or do much, but I don’t see the immediate increase in taxes. Unless you are talking down the road. Which neither party has the balls to address (except for Ron Paul).

[ralphfurley]

[quote=Scarlet]The thing that really struck me about this show (and no one has mentioned it yet) is the houses these people we were expected to feel sorry for are living in.

Didn’t anyone else notice??????

Lower income people living in very large, very new, very fancy 3 car garage stucco palaces.

If I lived in Normalville USA I’d be so super pissed that there is even any consideration to “saving” these people’s mini-mansions.
[/quote]

I was wondering that myself. How one thinks going from a shitbox in Compton to an ok house in Yorba Linda is on the up-and-up. I thought it was pricey to rent there, much less own.

Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.

Why the hell would anyone feel sorry for these people? I think I put more time and research into buying my 40 dollar computer speakers, than these people did into what type of loan they were getting.

[quote=Scarlet]Hey middle America you get to fund our fancy lifestyles and you get to be taxed to death to pay for my stucco-palace Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Thanks Obama![/quote]

My understanding is that a third of this stimulus bill is tax cuts. I don’t see where Obama is taxing us to death.

Another third is for aiding those who are in desperate shape. So my neighbor doesn’t break in and stab me to death for a box of Cheerios. And the other third is spending (infrastructure, a few jobs here and there). I don’t think it will go very far or do much, but I don’t see the immediate increase in taxes. Unless you are talking down the road. Which neither party has the balls to address (except for Ron Paul).

[ralphfurley]

[quote=Scarlet]The thing that really struck me about this show (and no one has mentioned it yet) is the houses these people we were expected to feel sorry for are living in.

Didn’t anyone else notice??????

Lower income people living in very large, very new, very fancy 3 car garage stucco palaces.

If I lived in Normalville USA I’d be so super pissed that there is even any consideration to “saving” these people’s mini-mansions.
[/quote]

I was wondering that myself. How one thinks going from a shitbox in Compton to an ok house in Yorba Linda is on the up-and-up. I thought it was pricey to rent there, much less own.

Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.

Why the hell would anyone feel sorry for these people? I think I put more time and research into buying my 40 dollar computer speakers, than these people did into what type of loan they were getting.

[quote=Scarlet]Hey middle America you get to fund our fancy lifestyles and you get to be taxed to death to pay for my stucco-palace Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Thanks Obama![/quote]

My understanding is that a third of this stimulus bill is tax cuts. I don’t see where Obama is taxing us to death.

Another third is for aiding those who are in desperate shape. So my neighbor doesn’t break in and stab me to death for a box of Cheerios. And the other third is spending (infrastructure, a few jobs here and there). I don’t think it will go very far or do much, but I don’t see the immediate increase in taxes. Unless you are talking down the road. Which neither party has the balls to address (except for Ron Paul).

[ralphfurley]

[quote=Scarlet]The thing that really struck me about this show (and no one has mentioned it yet) is the houses these people we were expected to feel sorry for are living in.

Didn’t anyone else notice??????

Lower income people living in very large, very new, very fancy 3 car garage stucco palaces.

If I lived in Normalville USA I’d be so super pissed that there is even any consideration to “saving” these people’s mini-mansions.
[/quote]

I was wondering that myself. How one thinks going from a shitbox in Compton to an ok house in Yorba Linda is on the up-and-up. I thought it was pricey to rent there, much less own.

Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.

Why the hell would anyone feel sorry for these people? I think I put more time and research into buying my 40 dollar computer speakers, than these people did into what type of loan they were getting.

[quote=Scarlet]Hey middle America you get to fund our fancy lifestyles and you get to be taxed to death to pay for my stucco-palace Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Thanks Obama![/quote]

My understanding is that a third of this stimulus bill is tax cuts. I don’t see where Obama is taxing us to death.

Another third is for aiding those who are in desperate shape. So my neighbor doesn’t break in and stab me to death for a box of Cheerios. And the other third is spending (infrastructure, a few jobs here and there). I don’t think it will go very far or do much, but I don’t see the immediate increase in taxes. Unless you are talking down the road. Which neither party has the balls to address (except for Ron Paul).

[ralphfurley]

[quote=Scarlet]The thing that really struck me about this show (and no one has mentioned it yet) is the houses these people we were expected to feel sorry for are living in.

Didn’t anyone else notice??????

Lower income people living in very large, very new, very fancy 3 car garage stucco palaces.

If I lived in Normalville USA I’d be so super pissed that there is even any consideration to “saving” these people’s mini-mansions.
[/quote]

I was wondering that myself. How one thinks going from a shitbox in Compton to an ok house in Yorba Linda is on the up-and-up. I thought it was pricey to rent there, much less own.

Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.

Why the hell would anyone feel sorry for these people? I think I put more time and research into buying my 40 dollar computer speakers, than these people did into what type of loan they were getting.

[quote=Scarlet]Hey middle America you get to fund our fancy lifestyles and you get to be taxed to death to pay for my stucco-palace Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Thanks Obama![/quote]

My understanding is that a third of this stimulus bill is tax cuts. I don’t see where Obama is taxing us to death.

Another third is for aiding those who are in desperate shape. So my neighbor doesn’t break in and stab me to death for a box of Cheerios. And the other third is spending (infrastructure, a few jobs here and there). I don’t think it will go very far or do much, but I don’t see the immediate increase in taxes. Unless you are talking down the road. Which neither party has the balls to address (except for Ron Paul).

[jpinpb]

[quote=ralphfurley]
Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.
[/quote]

Yeah. I didn’t quite figure that one out. He made 50k in equity. I’m pretty sure he took it out. Is that not enough to start a business? What kind of business? How about SBA loan? And so now that he lost his house, it’s setting him back 10 years. I mean, UH? All it can do is set him back to where he was when he started. {gasp}

[jpinpb]

[quote=ralphfurley]
Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.
[/quote]

Yeah. I didn’t quite figure that one out. He made 50k in equity. I’m pretty sure he took it out. Is that not enough to start a business? What kind of business? How about SBA loan? And so now that he lost his house, it’s setting him back 10 years. I mean, UH? All it can do is set him back to where he was when he started. {gasp}

[jpinpb]

[quote=ralphfurley]
Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.
[/quote]

Yeah. I didn’t quite figure that one out. He made 50k in equity. I’m pretty sure he took it out. Is that not enough to start a business? What kind of business? How about SBA loan? And so now that he lost his house, it’s setting him back 10 years. I mean, UH? All it can do is set him back to where he was when he started. {gasp}

[jpinpb]

[quote=ralphfurley]
Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.
[/quote]

Yeah. I didn’t quite figure that one out. He made 50k in equity. I’m pretty sure he took it out. Is that not enough to start a business? What kind of business? How about SBA loan? And so now that he lost his house, it’s setting him back 10 years. I mean, UH? All it can do is set him back to where he was when he started. {gasp}

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