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Border Agent Issues Desperate Plea for Help, Says US Completely Overrun By Criminal Aliens
“The ones we are losing are convicted felons, aliens from special interest countries, and other high risk individuals..”
by Adan Salazar | Infowars | June 10, 2014
A US Border Patrol agent stationed in South Texas has reached out to Infowars in a desperate plea for help, stating more than half of immigrants crossing the border end up doing so successfully and that many of those are the most criminal types.
“As a Border Patrol Agent, I can tell you as an eye witness that we are currently losing more than we are catching,” the agent claims, whose name has been withheld to protect him from retaliation.
Labeling efforts to secure the border an “ongoing crisis,” the agent points to numerous issues further adding to the fruitless task, including a lack of staffing, a lack of support from the American people and the Obama administration’s refusal to acknowledge the crisis.
Patrolling the Rio Grande Valley sector, the United States’ southernmost border with Mexico and its most porous, the agent says immigrants who evade capture are typically the most violent.
“The ones we are losing are convicted felons, aliens from special interest countries, and other high risk individuals. We are so overwhelmed and preoccupied by the flood of juveniles and family units that we cannot use our resources to catch the more serious aliens,” the agent states.
Furthermore, the agent says, under the direction of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigrants are being rounded up and released in largely-Hispanic populated South Texas towns, such as Brownsville and McAllen, because “fewer people will notice or care.”
“We have been doing that for months before the stories broke in Phoenix, Arizona a couple of weeks ago,” reports the agent.
Americans desperate for a solution to the overwhelming number of immigrants flooding past the border (the agent estimates they are unable to prevent sometimes more than 10,000 per week) have started petitions on the White House website asking President Obama for support.
“The Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley Sector is overwhelmed and at a breaking point,” one petition says. “We The People need President Obama and the Department of Homeland Security to protect us and take the necessary steps to meet this state of emergency adequately and immediately.”
The agent’s statements echo sentiments put forth last year by Immigration Customs and Enforcement union boss Chris Crane, who in February testified before a House Judiciary Committee about the lawlessness behind the “nation’s broken immigration system,” stating that, “Ice has essentially prohibited its agents from enforcing” immigration law.
While Infowars frequently highlights violations of the Fourth Amendment by overzealous border agents, it is equally reprehensible the Department of Homeland Security and the Obama administration are failing to address the flood of criminal immigrants invading the nation.
Below is the agent’s distressing letter in full…
Good Morning,
I am a Border Patrol Agent in the Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV), south of Corpus Christi, Texas. Thank you for your continued support and coverage of the ongoing crisis on the border. I would like to take a moment to convey the absolute desperation that we are reaching down here. We have been ordered to release thousands of Family Units (Parent/Child), and thousands of teenage unaccompanied juveniles (Under 18). We have encountered numerous instances of fraud, kidnapping, and exploitation where adults are claiming that very young children are their own, when in fact they are not. Many of the unaccompanied juveniles are claiming that they have a responsible parent to be released to, when in fact they do not.
As a Border Patrol Agent, I can tell you as an eye witness that we are currently losing more than we are catching. On a good day, we catch approximately 30 to 40 percent of all crossers while the rest simply get away. In the RGV, we have been averaging around 10,000 apprehensions per week. That means we are losing well over 10,000 aliens per week. And the aliens that are getting away are not the juveniles or the family units because they are turning themselves in at the first sight of agents. The ones we are losing are convicted felons, aliens from special interest countries, and other high risk individuals. We are so overwhelmed and preoccupied by the flood of juveniles and family units that we cannot use our resources to catch the more serious aliens.
In the RGV, we have been releasing aliens, through ICE, in Brownsville, Texas and McAllen, Texas. We have been ordered to go out of our way to bus them to those locations for release because they are cities of mostly Hispanic heritage, so fewer people will notice or care. We have been doing that for months before the stories broke in Phoenix, Arizona a couple of weeks ago.
We cannot get any attention or relief down here. We desperately need immediate manpower, resources, and a firm support of Americans. This is de facto amnesty. The President and the Secretary of Homeland Security will ignore this issue as long as possible in order to let as many illegal aliens gain entry into the United States.
Again, thank you for your undying support and patriotism. You have no idea how much my fellow agents and I appreciate it.
God Bless America,
Infowars has confirmed the identity of the agent.
And the ones that turn themselves in then have to be processed, thereby taking that agent off the watch for how long?
As if someone declared amnesty for minor open misdemeanor warrants but the only way to get it was to turn yourself in to a cop on the street. He then has to go back to the station to do all the paperwork to process you. Four hours of time without that cop on the streets.
Put a bounty on them. Charge it to Mexico. Move the DMZ south one mile for every peso they fail to pay. Free enterprise will work.
Put a bounty on them ??
Fine & force anyone who rents housing to them to pay for their cost to return them to their native country…One year in jail for anyone who harbors them…Fine and force anyone who hires them to pay for the cost to return them to their native country…With no work and no housing the problem is pretty much solved..But, that type of solution is just to practical…We need complicated solutions that spend 10’s of billions of dollars and employ lots of people…
+1. Just enforcing that would employ lots of people.
Gotta find some way to spend taxpayer money, huh?
True to form, the NeoCon-Progressives first create the crisis, then soak the masses, and end up with greater dependency upon Big Government.
Such people are mentally ill. Only deranged, paranoid people wish to dictate the lives of others.
MacBeth:
The money wouldn’t come from taxpayers. It would come from people being fined.
With no work and no housing the problem is pretty much solved
Yup, we saw what happened when we ran out of jobs. The Mexodus came to a grinding halt.
Maybe also make wiring money south illegal or very difficult without proof of legal residency. Heck just ban it until the problem is under control.
Move the DMZ south one mile for every peso they fail to pay. Free enterprise will work.
Uh … what does invading Mexico have to do with “free enterprise”? If anything unregulated “free enterprise” should allow businesses to hire whoever they darn well please, and that includes illegal aliens.
Plus, we know how well invading other countries has worked out for us.
Plus, we know how well invading other countries has worked out for us.
Yeah, we got our first Mexican-Americans when we took the Southwest from Mexico.
‘when we took the Southwest from Mexico’
Huh, funny, I don’t see any battle fields marked out here from that great war.
A quick read on wikipedia show that there were some battles in New Mexico and California, but they mostly had very few casualties. Most of the major action appears to have taken place south of the current border.
Remember the Alamo!
‘Most of the major action appears to have taken place south of the current border’
It’s too complex to get into on a blog, but Spain just had some guys ride horses around, killed a few Indians and claimed all this land. Mexico ended up with it.
¨Spain just had some guys ride horses around, killed a few Indians and claimed all this land¨
Isn’t that pretty much how all the Europeans colonized?
and the Obama administration’s refusal to acknowledge the crisis ??
The problem lays at the feet of the Senate & House…Not with the President…They (combined) can even overcome a veto…
I cannot follow your logic. Obama is not responsible for his failure to enforce existing immigration laws since Congress could pass another law and pass it over his veto?
This has been the problem with the Imperial Presidency now for a few administrations. The Prez (R or D) simply chooses to not enforce the laws he doesn’t like. And the truth is that the Executive branch of the government has been turning a blind eye to illegal immigration for decades.
It may only end when those in power and their children start getting killed by drunk illegals, raped by them and robbed by them…
Don’t agree with you too often two-fruit but I will give you a +1 on this comment…I agree…
Illegal immigrant murdered Bristol girlfriend before raping her
By The Bristol Post | Posted: April 17, 2014
By Katie Pavid
WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT.
AN illegal immigrant, high on drugs, throttled his girlfriend - and then raped her as she lay dying in her Bristol home.
Sergio Novarette had repeatedly attacked Sarah O’Neill over a period of months after she let him move in to her house in Speedwell, Bristol Crown Court heard.
The 22-year-old mother-of-one also miscarried as she died in a pool of blood.
Novarette, 27, admitting violently killing her in the middle of the night after she told him to leave her home on January 8.
He was living in the UK illegally after coming to the country from Mexico in December 2012 and had a long history of alcoholism.
Sarah had taken him in last year, as he was unable to earn money legally.
But he had slowly turned on her, lashing out several times before eventually killing her.
Sarah died from her injuries, and the court heard how Novarette had sex with her either at the time of death or shortly afterwards, before leaving her body in the bedroom.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pimps the Scamnesty:
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/208806-zuckerberg-group-unveils-new-ads-for-immigration-overhaul
Thank god for our future leaders like Zuckerberg. He makes us all proud.
I cannot stand to even look at the kid much less listen to him talk.
“I cannot stand to even look at the kid much less listen to him talk.”
+1 Just remember to bend thy knee when his chariot rolls past.
Facebook sux.
Furthermore, the agent says, under the direction of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigrants are being rounded up and released in largely-Hispanic populated South Texas towns, such as Brownsville and McAllen, because “fewer people will notice or care.”
Having visited that part of the country, you’ll only stand out if you are an “Anglo”
Right. That’s a 1.5million person metro area in the US that is 90%+ hispanic.
This can be easily solved. Just stop allowing employers to hire illegal aliens, and stop giving them free education, free health care, welfare checks, food stamps, and subsidized housing. They will stop coming over if we do that.
I rarely reply here, but your post almost requires one.
If you think crime is bad now, imagine 12 million people, living in our country, who are cut off overnight from food, housing, and work.
I’m not a fan of amnesty, but your ideas are just the recipe for death and destruction on a scale unheard of here.
Regardless of who let them in (BOTH parties and corporate america), they’re here. We can’t just throw them into the streets, to fend for themselves. There’s too many of them. Which was probably intentional by those who profit the most from them being here.
The only workable solution may be to shut the border down…and deal with who’s here. Weed out the bad ones, and work something out for those already established here. I don’t know. I’ve never heard any real workable solutions from either party, which is why we’re at the point we are.
They would go back to their home countries. They are citizens there. Entitled to all the bennies back home. And new ones would stop coming over.
“If you think crime is bad now, imagine 12 million people, living in our country, who are cut off overnight from food, housing, and work.”
I’m imagining a policy to rapidly deport illegal aliens who commit crimes.
¨Just stop allowing employers to hire illegal aliens¨
How should we do that, ask them nicely? Because Congress seems unwilling to pass any such law.
The laws have been on the books since the 80’s.
What are they?
Employers are supposed to get increasing fines each time they are caught employing an illegal alien. The fines are used to deport the aliens.
“…more than half of immigrants crossing the border end up doing so successfully and that many of those are the most criminal types.”
Sure makes me glad I don’t live near the border.
Oh wait…
Congratulations, David Brat! David slays Goliath. And Eric Cantor, don’t let the door hitya where the good lord splitya.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/no-2-house-republican-eric-cantor-defeated-in-virginia-primary-upset-1402445714
Yay! We are gonna fight today! 300 post wacky wednesday?
Judging from the post count, looks like more than that…
Dang it, only 244 so far.
Exactly. Many in the MSM are trying to spin this as not primarily driven by immigration but it was his wall street backers causing him to waffle on immigration that cost him the seat. So I would like to kick him in the seat on his way out.
When the knee jerk spin of today obviously does not wash, they will fall back on racism.
This was an anti amnesty sentiment that did in Cantor. Bloomberg news mentioned that immigration reform is going to be tougher to pass with Cantor out of the way. The same article mentioned that Wall Street loved Cantor. And it’s a battle now between the big business establishment and the small government types.
A libertarian society is an anti-corporation society. Corporations would have no incentive to exist without the limited liability that gets them away with things you and I are forbidden to do.
Cantor goes down…Up next, Mississippi GOP runoff…
It’s interesting that the anti-establishment crowd tend to hold “Don’t Tread On Me” values nowadays. Unlike the 1960s, it’s Progressivism that is under fire. The NeoCon-Progressives can expect a lot more of this going forward.
In the meantime, our government continues to punish its citizens while it lines its pockets. Domestic Imperialism. Washington fully expects to be able to do whatever it wants - screw the people.
Hope they’ve got their Titanic deck chairs handy. Cantor just lost his. Many more to follow.
It’s interesting that the anti-establishment crowd tend to hold “Don’t Tread On Me” values nowadays.
But most of them are really talking about their Medicare and Social Security.
I find it hilarious that most of the tea party is made up of people cashing their social security checks each month and availing themselves of free medicare, yet they get all in a froth because nobody takes their ideas serously.
But most of them are really talking about their Medicare and Social Security.
And they want the government to “Keep its hands off my medicare and SS”
I find it hilarious that most of the tea party is made up of people cashing their social security checks each month
If they paid into it then they have a right to get their money back out.
Next!
I guarantee you if social security is still there in 12 years I’m going to get what I and my company match paid in, plus interest. It’s mine. Not there’s. LIEberal logic says that what we were stolen is not ours. How can you, AmazingRuss be amazingly LIEberal on this?
“Not there’s.”
WTF?
spelling nazi in today’s age of predictive text is so old. I stopped being a spelling nazi when iPads, iPhones and Droids first came out.
“spelling nazi…”
Grammatical error?
Recall you sacked me correctly with, x86_64, a while back.
Europe saw a lot of anti-establishment election victories recently. There was an election in Pennsylvania where a write in candidate unexpectedly won an election: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/03/23/write-in-candidate-wins-special-election-for-pa-senate-seat/
However, it remains to be seen how things work on the Democrat’s side. If they present a united front in November, it could blunt any Republican advantage.
This is a tremendously interesting result regardless.
I know nothing about this teabagger, but this is a great start. Imagine if EVERY incumbent were voted out. We need a massive cleansing. I hope other Reps are quaking in their shoes.
So do all the Dems. By all means, run the TP religionists against the moderate Ds in the general election; see what happens to the balance of power in Congress.
Imagine if EVERY incumbent were voted out. What sort of wondrous miracles do you think would occur?
“What sort of wondrous miracles do you think would occur?”
Israel would be renamed Palestine, the cartographers would be busy redrawing the borders, the wall would dismantled and the U.S. Treasury would have more to spend at home on infrastructure.
You’re making a big assumption about the sort of people who would replace those incumbents.
“You’re making a big assumption about the sort of people who would replace those incumbents.”
+1 True. I was thinking of fresh thinkers who would put the U.S. and her citizens ahead of all else. Silly, I know.
http://time.com/2860967/david-brats-biblical-views-shape-his-tea-party-politics/
His core argument is that capitalism and Christianity should merge. He believes their union is so important that making disciples of capitalism is Brat’s own version of Jesus’ Great Commission. “The main point is that we need to synthesize Christianity and capitalism,” he concludes in “God and Advanced Mammon.” “Augustine synthesized Plato and Christianity. Thomas Aquinas synthesized Aristotle and Christianity. Calvin synthesized all the rest, but capitalism was still coming. There is a book in here somewhere for the next Calvin. Go. God Bless.”
Central America Newspapers Tout Open US Door for Illegal Minors
Tuesday, 10 Jun 2014 05:30 PM
By Todd Beamon
Newspapers in El Salvador and Honduras are promoting policies by the Obama administration that defer deportation to minors brought to the United States as children by their parents — known as “Dreamers” — and those that are housing illegal children at military bases in the South and West.
“Almost all agree that a child who crossed the border illegally with their parents, or in search of a father or a better life, was not making an adult choice to break our laws, and should be treated differently than adult violators of the law,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is quoted in a story about a new two-year extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act published by Diario El Mundo in El Salvador.
“With the renewal of DACA, we act according to our values and code of this great nation,” Johnson said. “But the biggest task of comprehensive immigration reform is yet to come.”
Meanwhile, La Prensa of Honduras discusses in a report how as many as 500 illegal minors are being housed at the Naval Base Ventura County in Southern California.
“The children will be accommodated for between three and four months, while their parents or relatives are located in the United States,” the report says.
“The administration of President Barack Obama has acknowledged he faces a serious crisis for the continuous arrival of children, mostly Central Americans, who are illegally entering the country on the border with Mexico.”
Besides Mexico and Honduras, the report notes that many of the children are coming from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
“During their stay, in addition to accommodations and food, children receive English classes, play sports and participate in targeted programs while immigration authorities contact their families,” the La Prensa report says.
On Monday, the Obama administration said that it would begin housing as many as 1,200 illegal minors at the Army base in Fort Sill in Oklahoma.
http://www.newsmax.com/…/2014/06/10/id/576257/ - 74k -
mostly Central Americans??
Mostly?
So where is OWS?
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Historic Loss: House Majority Leader Cantor Loses Virginia Primary To Tea Party’s Brat
Zero Hedge - 6/11/2014
While The Tea Party had been relatively aggressive in the race, it is still quite shocking to the establishment that the second-highest House Republican just got unseated (despite outspending Brat by a ratio of 5-to-1) by a local tea-party-backed economics professor:
HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER CANTOR LOSES VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
DAVID BRAT BEATS CANTOR IN VIRGINIA PRIMARY, AP REPORTS
TEA PARTY CHALLENGER BEATS SECOND-HIGHEST HOUSE REPUBLICAN: AP
Echoing Europe’s dissatisfaction with the status quo, it appears the announcement of the death of the Tea Party was a little premature. Cantor was elected to Congress in 2000… looks like we have to add one to initial jobless claims this week. Meet the man who just crushed Eric Cantor…
So where is OWS?
Voted Obama for reelection.
Will vote Hilary for Presidency.
Will reelect Schummer, Rangel, Peolosi, Reed, Mendez & Maxine, etc.
Funny but mostly true.
There’s no reason to hope that getting a couple of new people in the red team will fix anything, but still a nice gesture I suppose.
Blue team, your turn now….
actually the blue team helped the tea party guy win (VA has open voting in primaries and the dem primary was not contested, so lots of cross over voting). the blue team wants the tea party guy on the nov. ballot.
the red team’s money was all on cantor. cantor raised like 3 million just so far in 2014 for this race and still lost the primary. LOL.
we have an utterly idiotic 2 party system. that’s what needs to change.
Nice spin. I know you were being paid well. Who knew you were this good?
Liberace is quite the snake…… Like most gov barristers are.
I’ve never worked for the gov., I’ve always been on the other side.
But on a bigger issue, how can you not see the humor in this primary result? I think it is awesome. No one can seriously care that much about 1 house seat in a body of 435 reps. Even people who claim to be upset by this are just doing it for attention. But rarely do we get to see someone like Cantor chewed up and spit out.
The _truly_ funny thing is, Cantor didn’t have any money when he first went to Washington. Now he’s a multimillionaire thanks to insider trading. And it will not be long before he gets a PRIME position as a lobbyist/lawyer for an industry group. He got “rejected” but he’s about to be even richer than he already is.
And We The People tolerate this system. God Bless America and the two party system!
The inside the beltway crowd like joey is so worried that they got caught with their pants down.
Yeah, i know…
The other spin is Iraq and is being done by the Democrats. Sure Bush should have never broke the country, but the immediate cause of what is happening is all on Obama:
1. Failed to get a force agreement with Iraq to make sure someone like ISIL (also called ISIS) did not get a toehold
2. De-stabilized Syria with its aggressive support of the Arab Spring but he never had a contingency if Assad confronted the democracy movement with force.
3. Failed to arm the moderates when force was needed thus opened up the growth of ISIL in Syria and their creation of bases in Syria to wage war in Iraq.
4. Drew redlines in Syria that it failed to enforce reducing our credibility in the entire region and encouraging conservative Arab support of ISIL.
Remember I am not Monday morning quarterbacking on this, I predicted these events step by step and where this would end. Now, ISIL will move South to the mixed Sunni/Shiite areas and all hell will break out.
Bush should have never broke the country, but the immediate cause of what is happening is all on Obama:
Dude, that’s a perfect sentence illustrating how your mind works with logic involving Obama.
“My daddy should have never cheated on my mommy but their divorce is because my mommy is leaving him”.
“34 years of Trickle down redistributed money to the rich but the poor are only poor because they don’t have any money.”
“There is no prejudice in America these days but the darker people would be smarter if their skin were lighter”
I am not Monday morning quarterbacking on this, I predicted these events step by step
That’s nothing Tim Tibow. I remember people predicted a post-invaded Iraq would become a basket-case for years and years before Bush even invaded it.
Big difference between saying a country is a basket case and saying that a group that was gaining power in Syria would then destabilize Iraq which is exactly what would happen. The media is stunned on what happened in Mosul so apparently my prediction was not so easy to see. I will not dignify your nonsense with a point by point rebuttal but I will address this charge:
“There is no prejudice in America these days but the darker people would be smarter if their skin were lighter
I never said that but I have said that it is a matter of fact that the average black IQ is America is 85 the average black IQ is Africa is 75 and the average white IQ throughout the world is 100 and it appears that blacks that clearly have mixed with whites do produce children that have higher IQs than other blacks. You may hate my repeating of facts but that does not make them facts. If you have any evidence that the above numbers are incorrect cite to the source. However, just as the Catholic church tried to suppress evidence that the Earth revolved around the Sun, the PC crowd is just wasting its time trying to suppress evidence of racial differences. However, if we treat people on an individual basis racial differences make no difference since Biden and Obama show that idiots come from both races and conservative black leaders show that both races produce intelligent people.
You may hate my repeating of facts but that does not make them not facts
I repeat these facts because we have individual rights under our constitution not group rights like some very dysfunctional countries like Lebanon have. Despite this the PC types and professional race card players like Rio want to create essentially group rights. There is no need to show actual discrimination in their opinion, for example the fact that one group has a lower rate of homeownership than another automatically shows discrimination despite the ability to show that any individual that had the same credit score, income and savings was treated differently. I reject that analysis and find clear evidence that people will the same IQ in America have virtually identical outcomes.
their inability to show
You may hate my repeating of facts but that does not make them facts.
I don’t hate you repeating the fact that you think your white race is superior to darker people.
Why would I hate you showing people what you are? Showing people what you are shows people where you are coming from and showing objective people where you are coming from puts the “facts” you present in their context.
It also lays bare your “logic” of your statements like this.
Bush should have never broke the country, but the immediate cause of what is happening is all on Obama:
“My daddy should have never cheated on my mommy but their divorce is because my mommy is leaving him”.
P.S.
I chuckle at the great effort you go through to show your “numbers”.
and professional race card players like Rio
Dude you’re too funny!
You’re the dude always pushing your
“Blacks are 10 points dumber than Whites. But a half Asian well-bred with a Black is = to a White (unless his Grandma was 1/2 Arab which equals out if his momma had an affair with a pure Aryan.
And I’m playin’ the race card? You got issues dude.
‘you think your white race is superior’
I’m sure this bit is at the bottom of the morning email briefing:
“Remember, anyone who disagrees with you is an ignorant racist. Throw that in every chance you get. And these ignorant racists will be overwhelmed by the inevitable tide of whatever it is you are posting. Be sure to mock them too.”
So Rio can’t refute the facts that can easily verified on the internet? I thought not. I do not consider myself superior to anyone based on race but I do feel quite superior to you based on our interactions.
Remember, anyone who disagrees with you is an ignorant racist. Throw that in every chance you get.
Ben why do you let a racist such as Adan go on and on about Whites being superior to Blacks on your blog?
See, I’m a racist too according to you.
Remember, anyone who disagrees with you is an ignorant racist.
No. There are tens of dozens who have disagreed with me and race is never an issue.
ADan is the definition of a racist. Is he not?
racism
: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
See, I’m a racist too according to you.
Strawman. I’ve never read anything you’ve written being racist.
No no, don’t give up the script. Some one who posts on my blog is deemed by you to be a racist, therefore I am a racist. It can work both ways of course; the guy who is “good at killing people”, brown people, is supported by you. Therefore you are a racist. Now, where do I pick up my check?
I will not accept that a factual argument is racist. Actually, I use a number that probably overstates the IQ in sub-Saharan Africa, this studies places it in the 60s:
http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/lynn2010.pdf
Ben is a libertarian and you want my posts banned. He believes as the founding fathers did that the proper response to speech you do not disagree with is to counter it with your own speech. If you think I am posting factually inaccurate information, you should not be trying to get my posts banned but should be posting information showing that I am incorrect.
Actually, for clarification what I meant to say is a study I am about to post uses 80 but it cites studies putting sub-Saharan IQ in the 60’s but I use numbers that are on the internet which put the IQ about 75.
Another study which addresses the link:
http://topconservativenews.com/2012/04/university-study-on-iqs-in-sub-saharan-africa/
But we just need to move beyond race and treat people like individuals since that is the only standard that makes sense. However, if we legally use disparate impact to measure for discrimination we need to have an honest discussion on whether there are actual differences by race that can explain disparate results.
Ben is a libertarian and you want my posts banned.
I don’t want your posts banned. I don’t even have you on ignore.
I find your racist post repugnant and distasteful but I’m getting used to them and changing my attitude on that.
I’m starting to think that the more you spout racism, and incessantly bloviate bias on every issue under the sun, the more it makes you and the supporters of your points look bad.
And I love how Obama warps your logic and math. Dude, there’s a picture of him in the news today. Check it out.
Just answer the question what is the average IQ of a black in Africa? It is not hard, did I get the number wrong and if I did not why is it racist to repeat a fact?
we just need to move beyond race and treat people like individuals since that is the only standard that makes sense.
Dude, that sounds so sincere coming from you. It really does. And I know, “Some of your best friends are black”.
Here’s an Alabama Sh!tHouse poem I wrote for you that I think encapsulates how you feel:
Beyond Race
Blacks are Dumber
Browns are a Bummer
Whites set the Pace
(but) Let’s “Move Beyond Race”
Like always no real facts to support your position so you use personal attacks. Just answer the questions posed.
Just answer the question what is the average IQ of a black in Africa?
IDK, but very few blacks in Ethiopia ever get this IQ Test question right.
IQ Test
Question 42.
In the sport of Cricket would it be better to have
A. A Test average of 99.94 and an overall first-class average of 95.14
B. A Test average of 98.94 and an overall first-class average of 97.13
or
C. A Test average of 97.64 and an overall first-class average of 97.13
why is it racist to repeat a fact?
It’s the pleasure that you derive from repeating this fact on such a regular basis that indicates something about you.
Besides that, what exactly is the fact involved? Some people somewhere put together a test and administered it to people all over the world. The average score on that test varied from country to country. Why do you find so fascinating? Do you even know what the questions were on this test?
Just answer the question what is the average IQ of a black in Africa? ….Like always no real facts
I ignore it because it is mostly meaningless. It is a mostly meaningless question posed to a person with one of his degrees being in Cultural Anthropology and another degree being in a hard science. If you think race is the determinant factor in IQ for the Blacks in Africa or America compared to White Americans, well you don’t have the IQ yourself or the objectivity to understand how the following factors can add negative bias or affect those “IQ” scores.
4 Group differences
4.1 United States test scores
4.2 Flynn effect
4.3 Closing of the gap
5.1 Test bias
5.2 Stereotype threat
5.3 Socioeconomic environment
5.4 Gradual gap appearance
5.5 Health and nutrition
5.6 Education
5.7 Caste-like minorities
5.8 Lack of prior exposure to test related knowledge
5.9 The role of literacy wiki
I understand all those factors and the simple truth is the gap is not closing and it is now very clear it is virtually all caused by genetic and not environmental factors. You can try to obscure the truth just like the Catholic church did when it was an inconvenient truth but the Sun does not orbit around the Earth and Africa is a mess due to the low IQs and I am making money on the South African mining strikes that I knew would occur due to the IQ gaps and money due to Obama’s stupid Middle East policies.
I understand all those factors and the simple truth is…
There it is Adan Your hubris and your folly to be seen in one quick expression above. If you really understood science, (social as well as hard science) you’d be smart enough to realize there is no “simple truth” to be derived from “all those factors”.
You’re dealing with a thousand variables and you’re smart enough to come up with your “simple truth”? You must have been touched by the hand of God in your hubristic mind.
You can try to obscure the truth just like the Catholic church did when it was an inconvenient truth but the Sun does not orbit around the Earth and ……….
Hearing you Adan, the ClownPrince of ClimateChange Denial talk about any institution covering up science and expecting anyone objective to believe your bs is surreal. Your Koch Brother bosses are using the Catholic Church’s playbook.
I am making money on the South African mining strikes that I knew would ….
Good lord you’re a piece of work. Do you love the sound of your own voice Adan? But do people avoid you at parties?
hu·bris
noun \ˈhyü-brəs\
: a great or foolish amount of pride or confidence
Full Definition of HUBRIS
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Comment by goon squad
2014-05-14 06:21:47
And people think I’m joking when I talk about the Media/Academia Race Hustlers Industrial Complex™
Aren’t you always joking about everything when you post on the HBB?
He strikes me as someone who speaks his mind but says he’s joking while doing it.
Of course ultimately it aint gonna matter cause the Plutocrats control everything, but this is a loss for the inside the beltway crowd. Why do you think Polly and Joey are crooning so early?
It’s not a loss, it’s funny.
And you’re right, this won’t matter. I believe in the MMM idea that you have to live your life based on what the law is and not worry that much about all the radio static in the background. I def don’t waste my time reading or watching national news, nor in supporting either of our jerk-off political parties that only serve their donors when the chips are down. IMHO, that is the best way to live. I’m going to be fine no matter which of these 2 idiotic parties is in power.
No watching the news, who does watch the news these days? Vanishingly few. But is it really something to crow about if you spend three times as much time scrolling through stovepipe websites for leftist spin?
I’m on a low information diet overall (see MMM). I scroll through here (not as much as I used to, some days not at all) and read a few local sites that are not mainstream media but cover things like zoning board hearings, state issues, the police blotter, and local RE.
a lot of what I look at online in my spare time is related to hobbies or self-reliance/financial independence/DIY type stuff. I care much more about my bike or my cello strings than I do about our terrible two party system.
feels good not to dine at the trough of media ignorance and hype.
Blue team, your turn now….
This did not just begin last night. But what we are witnessing here is the once proud GOP being torn apart in front of our eyes in real time - and by a faction that has no chance of ever capturing the mind and hearts of a large portion of the changing American demographic. Why? Because they don’t like, and don’t want to capture the minds and hearts of what America is becoming. And this is where they are politically cerebrally stunted, aka, “not that smart”.
The GOP might as well kiss goodby any substantial percentage gains in the Hispanic, black, gay, atheist, brown, burnt sienna, Asian, women, the educated and young vote for the next 10 years. They will probably lose even more of this huge block of votes.
In that sense the GOP loses by its far-right faction winning and because the GOP loses, the far-right loses it’s only mechanism of power on a federal level. In other words, most political change in America is done at the margins of compromise, and the new GOP will allow less and less of that. And even though it makes the next president more likely another Democrat, seeing a once proud party engaged in a losing civil war with itself, allowing less compromise, means America loses too.
‘it makes the next president more likely another Democrat’
How much do they pay you to post this stuff?
Too much, they waste money just like the big government types in Congress. Perhaps he is funded with remaining stimulus funding or as a navigator for Obamacare.
They probably don’t pay Rio anything. Shills have to stick to a bumper-sticker script, and Rio’s words are too original for that. Just a passionate liberal with insight, nothing more than that.
‘Just a passionate liberal’
I thought he was a libertarian. That’s what he says.
Sure, an establishment Republican gets beat on the amnesty question, and that means a Democrat who supports amnesty will become president!
This is more of the spin politics we get all the time. It’s just dishonest. Up is down, etc. Yellen is for affordable housing! Barney Frank is fighting for financial stability! Let’s send some more arms to Al-Qaeda to fight terrorism!
I thought he was a libertarian. That’s what he says.
Wrong. I think you don’t like it when I point out how the Tea Party is a losing game in American Politics. What I said is that I’ve led the “libertarian” life most “libertarians” squawk on about but don’t have the guts to lead - including on this board.
Liberty. Paid my way through college. Then I drove to California in my pickup from the Midwest with $800 I made carrying hod, became self employed, worked hard and built a small business and did OK. Liberty.
Drove from Port Angeles Washington to San Diego to find exactly where we wanted to live and lived exactly there when we wanted. Never had a boss or even used much an alarm clock. Never been on welfare. Never inherited anything. Worked.
Took my savings and investments, moved to Brazil bought/built a house. I am currently self-employed as I’ve been for decades. I still have no boss. I am boss of my life through God’s grace and my personality. Liberty. Someday, I’ll move back to the USA god willing, but only when I feel like it. And it looks like I’ll have enough money to continue to do what I want and when I want.
That’s about as “libertarian” a life led I can think of nowadays. But I don’t claim to be a Libertarian.
A lot of today’s “libertarians” are all just talk.
‘you don’t like it when I point out how the Tea Party is a losing game’
There is no tea party. It’s the faction within the GOP that’s against amnesty. On that, I agree with them. You can have a safety net, or open borders, but you can’t have both. I suppose we can provide free health care to these illegals that are being shipped into Arizona? Worried about the low pay while we warehouse thousands of illegals while they await citizenship? Boy, that’s a vote getter.
‘I’ll have enough money to continue to do what I want and when I want’
Well, you don’t have to pay for the crap you push here until you do.
Sure, an establishment Republican gets beat on the amnesty question, and that means a Democrat who supports amnesty will become president!
Your not looking at the math of Cantors district compared to the entire USA. I read 64,000 votes were cast in Cantor’s redder than read district.
That district in no way shape or form represents the current demographic of America or America’s majority opinion on immigration reform.
Therefore Cantor losing on amnesty in that district in no way refutes my claim that the TeaParty tearing the GOP apart will probably make a Democratic president more likely next election. This is not spin. It is opinion that is probably correct……… IMO.
Shills have to stick to a bumper-sticker script, and Rio’s words are too original for that
Rio, has not had an original thought in his life, he repeats almost verbatim left wing opinion pieces and democratic talking points.
‘he repeats almost verbatim left wing opinion pieces and democratic talking points’
That’s why I think he’s being paid. He gets an email in the morning telling him how to spin this or that. The problem with spin is we’ve become used to it to the degree we listen to complete BS and we’re supposed to take it as a legitimate position. It’s just hogwash in every direction.
That district in no way shape or form represents the current demographic of America or America’s majority opinion on immigration reform.
There it is again a verbatim democratic talking point. The entire assertion that America’s majority opinion on immigration reform is to grant shamnesty is just b.s. Ironically, Oxide just above said very few democrats are even for shamnesty. I think that is not true but there is no majority opinion in the U.S. for it. However, I have heard the above identified talking point over and over.
There it is again a verbatim democratic talking point.
Tell your boss Mr. Koch you’re getting nervous.
And it is not a verbatim democratic talking point because I’ve said many times I agree with more the republican side of this issue than the democratic. It is just stating the facts. But do you actually think a lily-white, Redder than Red VA district accurately represents the current demographic of America or America’s opinion on immigration reform?
The entire assertion that America’s majority opinion on immigration reform is to grant shamnesty is just b.s.
That is a straw-man. Who said the America’s majority opinion was to grant shamnesty? There are many other options and shades of gray. Too complicated for you? What I said was Cantor’s district does not represent the current demographic of America or America’s majority opinion on immigration reform. Do you say it does? Do you say Cantor’s lily-white, Redder than Red VA district accurately represents the current demographic of America or America’s majority opinion on immigration reform?
Cantor’s district does not represent the current demographic of America or America’s majority opinion on immigration reform
The exact language is a democratic talking point. Yes, it does not mean anything just like every other talking point since that is the purpose of talking points to avoid having to address the real issues. Republicans are actually gaining in the polls the more they oppose Obama and Reid’s shamnesty and that is what both Obama and Reid want is shamnesty.
Cantor’s district does not represent the current demographic of America or America’s majority opinion on immigration reform
The exact language is a democratic talking point.
Well then I guess they are frickin’ brilliant on some issues because it’s a flat out fact. And I guess I’m a genius too because I figured it out all by myself.
it does not mean anything just like every other talking point since that is the purpose of talking points to avoid having to address the real issues.
Now that’s just dumb because district demographics is a huge real issue:
Cantor’s district does not represent the current demographic of America or America’s majority opinion on immigration reform
Above is a real issue that will affect the way the Dems and Repubs run upcoming elections dealing with certain issues in relation to the demographics those specific districts. And you say it’s not real? On what planet?
Republicans are actually gaining in the polls the more they oppose Obama and Reid’s shamnesty
Nice republican talking point dude. But does it mean anything or not?
Far from a Republican talking point since the Republican talking point is they need to pass some type of amnesty.
“I made carrying hod, became self employed, worked hard and built a small business and did OK. Liberty. ”
You didn’t build that.
STOP ARGUING ABOUT BUSH vs OBAMA!
“I made carrying hod, became self employed, worked hard and built a small business and did OK. Liberty. ”
You didn’t build that.
You’re right. I did not build the infrastructure and society that made it possible. But I paid into it.
“So where is OWS?”
Celebrating.
Defeating Cantor in the November election would have been completely impossible. Defeating Brat will probably be almost impossible, but they have a tiny chance. And no matter what, Cantor won’t be in the House in January.
Of course, banana’s question is absurd. OWS had a small influence (that has lasted) on the vocabulary of the conversation about economics. That is about it. It never became a sponsor of people running for office. If there is anyone in that district that consider themselves to be “from” OWS, they were voting in the Dem primary (or staying home) and had nothing at all to do with Eric Cantor losing the election.
In other news, my local NPR ran an interview with the one guy running for county executive that isn’t taking any money from developers. I marked my sample ballot so I can remember his name because he hasn’t been filling my mailbox with ads like the other two. He’ll have my vote in the primary along with other candidates that do the same.
By the way, primaries matter.
yeah, this is a safe red seat that will be sending a blue team member to congress in November, similar to that upstate NY seat from 2010.
You DC Dem shills are so deluded. You can’t even see how this is awful for you in November and beyond. This is about shamnesty.
I dislike both parties. I’m also not from DC.
I realize the tea party people voted on the shamnesty issue (BTW, I support clamping down tight on the border and making people have to earn amnesty and throwing out anyone who breaks the laws).
I’m merely pointing out that Cantor raised a veritable ton of money from GOP friendly sources and that his tea party challenger got significant help from people who want to turn that seat blue in November.
Interesting that anyone making neutral observations can only be seen by HBB people as if they were on the other team. Again, this is why our two party (that acts like one party behind closed doors) system is stupid.
Out with neutral observations bright and early on the morning of an establishment loss. Where are you from if not DC?
BAL > DC, trust me on this. DC really isn’t livable unless you’re beyond rich or are the kind of person who can spend a life of political climbing. Even though I’m a couple blocks from the WH during the day, I never think of myself as a DC person and am _always_ happy to leave at night.
(BTW, I support clamping down tight on the border and making people have to earn amnesty and throwing out anyone who breaks the laws).
If you give amnesty to even half the illegals in this country you will cause chain migration that will swamp this country. Even among the young illegals at the border, you hear from them that they do have relatives living in this country. Hey, we tried amnesty in 1986 in exchange for tough enforcement, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Perhaps if we only elected people like Reagan, laws would be faithfully enforced but he is probably the last president that had any intention to enforce the border.
Since when did Reagan enforce his own amnesty? He was in office for two years after it was enacted, and his VP was President for four years after that, and we were swamped anyway.
Show me that the border was not enforced during those two years, he is hardly responsible for Bush’s enforcement or lack their of, however, the border enforcement really stopped with Clinton.
Why were the border restrictions ineffective? Poor funding, for one. Congress didn’t provide enough money to ramp up Border Patrol hiring until the mid-1990s.
As a a result, a New York Times article from 1989 found that illegal border crossings actually appeared to be increasing in the early years after the law had passed:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/30/in-1986-congress-tried-to-solve-immigration-why-didnt-it-work/
Oxide, it is an opinion piece devoid of any facts showing how crossings increased just making the assertion that they seem to have increased after the Act. Show the numbers for Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II. Clearly Bush II will be the worse but I bet the actual numbers would have started to escalate under Clinton long after Reagan was gone.
But facts are stubborn things. Look at the graphs in this link, just like I guessed Reagan made clear progress during his years but then we started to back slide and Clinton and Bush II were complete disasters:
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/202461.pdf
It’s difficult to measure illegal crossings if you don’t know about them. And since we were talking about the intent of politicians, a better metric is the BUDGET for border control.
The WAPO article has a very nice chart that shows clearly that Reagan and Bush I didn’t bother to increase the budget for border control. You know who really bumped up border control money and agents? Clinton.
A-Dan is making stuff up.
Yup, stubborn facts. From your own article:
“Some researchers also suggest that the increased size of the unauthorized resident population
during the late 1990s and early 2000s is an inadvertent consequence of border enforcement and
immigration control policies. They posit that strengthened border security curbed the fluid
movement of seasonal workers. This interpretation, generally referred to as a caging effect, argues
that these policies raised the stakes in crossing the border illegally and created an incentive for
those who succeed in entering the United States to stay.”
In other words, the reason that the number of illegals in the country increased was NOT because the border wasn’t enforced. It was because seasonal workers who were already here decided to stay rather than risk crossing an enforced border.
Oxide, have you even looked at the chart it clearly does not support your contention but does mine. No big boost in illegals until Reagan left office and the growth of illegals took off under Clinton.
For a basis of comparison, Figure 1 presents the estimate of 3.2 million unauthorized resident
aliens in 1986 calculated by demographers Karen Woodrow and Jeffrey Passel, who worked for
the U.S. Census Bureau at that time. As expected after the passage of IRCA, the estimate for 1988
dropped to 1.9 million.10 According to demographer Robert Warren of the former Immigration
and Naturalization Service (INS), the estimated unauthorized resident alien population grew to
3.4 million in 1992 and to 5.0 million in 1996.11
As expected after the passage of IRCA, the estimate for 1988 dropped to 1.9 million.
…because many of those were legalized and therefore no longer aliens.
the estimated unauthorized resident alien population grew to 3.4 million in 1992 and to 5.0 million in 1996.
… because seasonal workers, who were used to crossing back and forth a porous border multiple times, suddenly found an Clinton-enforced border. They chose to stay in the US, which accounts for the jump.
And your numbers are only the residents IN the US, not the number of illegal crossings. And it still does not answer that Reagan and Bush I didn’t bother to increase the BUDGET.
Liberace!
Joe, that Democrat is retiring this year due to the fact that he knew he was going to lose. I have not seen any polls that suggest that the Republican is going to lose in Va, he is a college professor running against another college professor. I think it is going to be a very long night for Democrats in November and that is my prediction not Rasmussen. Predictions of economic growth have been downgraded this year to 2% and the Democrats will not be able to convince voters this time that it is about to get much better, combine that with Obamacare and an anticipated low turn-out among minorities and you have 2010 again.
“yeah, this is a safe red seat that will be sending a blue team member to congress in November”
That isn’t what I said at all. It is pretty much the opposite of what I said. Prof. Brat will probably (almost certainly) win. But he will have a lot less power in the House than Cantor did.
And there are two ways for Dems to do better in elections. Get more of their supporters to vote is one. It is hard and very, very expensive. The other is to watch while the Republicans shift even more to the right and bits of the center decide that they can’t vote for someone that extreme. Much easier.
The fact that it puts off some stuff that they want (immigration reform) for a while is hardly a big deal. Not good for a president that would like another win in his column for the history books, but he can’t run again. They aren’t too worried about him.
Worried about him?
Are you that myopic?
Doubtful. OWS, progressives, establishment Republicans were all for shamnesty, open borders Kumbaya. This was a huge rejection of that. There was a small chance they might try to ram something down the public’s throat before November based on this orchestrated scam going on at the border now.
That ain’t gonna happen now. The Tea Party matters.
how do you not understand that VA has open primaries and if you look at the number of votes cast in the dem primary, it’s obvious that a lot of non-GOP dems and independents voted in the GOP primary?
I guess it does send a statement that the party was willing to throw out cantor even if it ends up with a dem representative in congress next term.
I find this humorous — I’m for basically a closed border (with controlled legal immigration so that a smaller overall % of immigrants are from mexico/central America). But LOL @ either of the 2 parties _really_ supporting a closed border. Not going to happen anytime soon, if ever. Too much $$$ to be made by appeasing the proles with words but letting the border stay open in reality. It’s brilliant when you think about it.
It does not matter about the open primary unless what you say actually occurred, which it didnt. What makes you think this was help from Ds?
What makes you think this was help from Ds?
They just made it up. Must be on the journolist.
One of Occupy Wall Street’s initial “demands” was for a transaction tax on high-frequency stock trades.
This was unacceptable to the 0.01%er pigmen, so the narrative of OWS was restructured around their filthy living conditions and their laundry list of hippie-dippie progressive demands.
If the Tea Party can stop the amnesty, then hats off to them, but I’m not holding my breath…
‘One of Occupy Wall Street’s initial “demands” was for a transaction tax on high-frequency stock trades.’
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118798/
^^ exactly this.
Virginia is an open primary. It is rumored that Cantor’s defeat was due at least partially to Dems voting against him.
Cantor’s loss is more about influence and vote-whipping than about the single vote from his seat. Pundits agree that the biggest casualty will be immigration reform, which Cantor favored.
So the Democrats that will be most helped by shamnesty helped defeat the Republican most likely to give them shamnesty? Actually, I find that hard to believe. Sure you may find a few that were that stupid but I bet amnesty advocates among the Democrats also crossed over canceling out those votes.
The only Dems I know who are in favor of shamnesty are rich liberals with a college degreed job which isn’t threatened. You probably won’t find many of those in Cantor’s district.
And there were other reasons to vote against Cantor anyway. DailyKos (liberal site) didn’t like his smug attitude and high ambitions, despite his stance on immigration.
‘The only Dems I know who are in favor of shamnesty are rich liberals with a college degreed job which isn’t threatened’
Are there any elected Democrats in DC who don’t favor amnesty? Even one? Sounds like we have a democracy problem.
shamnesty are rich liberals with a college degreed job which isn’t threatened’
It also includes more legal immigration for edumcated foreigners, doesn’t it?
It wasn’t rumored. The rumor started this morning to cover up blue team’s own ineptness.
Remember - bigger and bigger government is the most efficient way to do things and makes us more CIVILIZED…
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88 Charged in One of Largest Food Stamp Frauds Ever
The Weekly Standard - Jun 11, 2014 - By JERYL BIER
The FBI announced Tuesday in Savannah, Georgia that eighty-eight people have been charged in “one of the largest federal food program frauds ever prosecuted.” Fifty-four of the defendants were charged with conspiring to open “purported grocery stores” specifically for the purpose of defrauding the Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) and Food Stamp program. After the fake stores were “approved as WIC and Food Stamp vendors,” many of the fifty-four defendants went through neighborhoods soliciting WIC and Food Stamp participants to exchange government benefits for cash instead of food in clear violation of the law. The remaining thirty-four defendants werebenefit recipients who sold over $1,000 of their own or their minor children’s benefits for a fraction of their worth. In all, over $18 million was laundered in this way in at least nine cities in Georgia.
The fifty-four defendants were charged with mail and wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy, each of which carry a maximum of twenty years in prison plus fines of $250,000 and $500,000 respectively. The thirty-four defendants charged with selling their benefits could face five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The government is attempting to seize “$20 million and various bank accounts and assets, including a 2008 Land Rover and a 2008 Mercedes Benz.”
“After the fake stores were “approved as WIC and Food Stamp vendors,” many of the fifty-four defendants went through neighborhoods soliciting WIC and Food Stamp participants to exchange government benefits for cash instead of food in clear violation of the law. The remaining thirty-four defendants were benefit recipients who sold over $1,000 of their own or their minor children’s benefits for a fraction of their worth.”
‘Lil Gangsta is still food insecure? Impossible to “help” these peeps.
What’s the point of posting this? Does this fraud indicate that we need to eliminate food stamps? If there is fraud in Pentagon procurement, would that indicate that we should eliminate the armed forces?
“What’s the point of posting this?”
It’s a Drudge link, 2brony loves harvesting the low-hanging fruit
Food stamps = $80,000,000,000 a year
Government contractors = $500,000,000,000+ a year
“Colbath said he issued the original order because neither the banks nor the homeowners seem inclined to move the cases either to a final judgment, dismissal or settlement.”
Why would they?
One gets to keep the inflated asset on the books and the other continues to live rent free.
Posted: 4:23 p.m. Friday, May 2, 2014
Palm Beach County foreclosure court order relaxed, remains controversial
By Kimberly Miller
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
WEST PALM BEACH —
An order meant to speed foreclosure cases through Palm Beach County’s courts was relaxed this week after complaints from homeowner attorneys, but a controversial passage regarding abandoned cases remains.
The amended order from Chief Judge Jeffrey Colbath gives defense attorneys 10 days to schedule a hearing after filing certain motions, instead of five, and removes language from the original directive that would allow a judge to deny a motion without a written order.
But the courts may still rule a case abandoned if no hearing has been set and heard within 90 days from filing a motion such as for an extension of time or to dismiss a case. In fact, Circuit Court Judge Richard Oftedal, who oversees the foreclosure division, penned a blanket order Thursday saying all cases will be considered abandoned 91 days after a motion is filed and if no hearing is held.
“Many such motions have languished for months and years without any attempt or effort on the part of any party to set the matter for hearing,” Colbath’s new order says. “These unresolved motions delay the proceedings and frustrate the timely disposition of foreclosure cases in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit.”
Royal Palm Beach foreclosure defense attorney Tom Ice had asked the Florida Supreme Court to weigh in on Colbath’s original order, saying the chief judge overstepped his rule-making authority. Ice said he will fight the new order also because it still puts the onus on the homeowner to move cases to resolution and still allows a judge to deem a case abandoned.
“The shifting of responsibility to the defendants to push the banks’ cases forward is such a sea change to the rules and tradition that only the Florida Supreme Court can decide that,” Ice said. “If this were a good idea, then it should be done for all cases, not just foreclosure cases.”
Colbath said he issued the original order because neither the banks nor the homeowners seem inclined to move the cases either to a final judgment, dismissal or settlement.
As of the end of March, Palm Beach County had 16,255 pending foreclosure cases. Statewide, there are about 218,055 foreclosures wending their way through the court system.
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Posted by Dive4Blood at 10:35 a.m. May. 4, 2014 Report Abuse
Colbath is doing the right things. The deadbeat homeowners, who have lived rent-free and mortgage-free for YEARS don’t want anything to change. The banks, fearful of the costs of their follies, don’t want anything changed. Meanwhile, the rest of us pay for our mortgages and we pay for the sins of the deadbeats living next door to us.
If you tie up court resources you have to be prepared to move forward. Otherwise, get out of the way so other folks can use the courts
Posted by speedwayvictor at 8:39 a.m. May. 5, 2014 Report Abuse
YOU are wrong Dive4Blood, deadbeat homeowners as u call ‘em only appeared in your neighborhood after the wall street banksters wrecked the economy, first they lured their prey with beautiful new homes they could afford at first, then after 2 years, their mtg payment tripled, then the banks would not modify their loan, then they take away their home, and let it sit there empty while they get pay, remember TARP $$ it pays the banks from the minute a homeowner defaults, get your facts straight buddy, Thomas Ice and other reputable attorneys like him are fighting to bring a little dignity, and respect back to these ‘deadbeat’ homeowners; unlike people like you or that think like you, they have a soul. By the way try selling your home now, bet its not worth much ah; guess who’s to blame for that? naw
Forward.
Did you pay your debts? Now you get to pay for other’s debt…
Anyone notice that this is the same setup as the great housing bubble collapse of 2008
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Obama To Shift Student Debt Burden To Taxpayers
Investors.com | June 10, 2014 | IBD Editorial
This week, Obama signed an executive order capping the payments that millions of student borrowers make on their school debt at 10% of their income, no matter how much they owe. After 10 years, their debts are entirely forgiven if they work for the government or a nonprofit.
The plan would cost more than $7 billion in the first year alone. And later this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to hold a vote on an Obama-endorsed bill that could shift to taxpayers the burden of hundreds of billions more in federal and private student debt.
Sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Leningrad, the student-debt refinancing scheme amounts to a $58 billion subsidy of student loan debt over a decade.
Naturally, Obama endorses the bill, arguing it would be paid for with a “millionaire’s tax.” In true class-warrior form, he called on voters to watch how those millionaire-loving Republicans vote on the bill.
“I want Americans to pay attention to see where their lawmakers’ priorities lie here: lower tax bills for millionaires or lower student-loan bills for the middle class?” Obama said. “This should be a no-brainer.”
He’s right about that — it certainly lacks intelligence.
Just for once I would like to see the term “affordable” associated with the now apparently obsolete term that used be known as “lower prices”.
Affordable != Lower prices
Affordable = Able to make month to month payment in a much longer duration
Affordable = NEW government program to help the FSA
The PBS NewHour had a good discussion on this last night. Advocates on opposite sides even agreed on a very good suggestion: let’s force these damn SCHOOLS to have some skin in the game. If the students can’t get a job to pay the loans back, make the SCHOOL pay back the loan. Schools will either have to improve their programs, or charge less tuition. Univ of Phoenix would go belly-up overnight. Pity.
That would be the equivalent of banks holding loans on their own books. Can’t be done.
Nine Public College Presidents Paid More Than $1 Million
By Michael McDonald May 19, 2014 8:20 AM ET
Student Debt
Separately a report from the Institute for Policy Studies found that the public universities with the highest executive compensation also tend to have the fastest growth in student debt and use of lower-paid adjunct faculty. The group, which advocates for peace, justice and the environment, is based in Washington.
http://www.bloomberg.com/…e-public-college-presidents-top-more-than-1-million-in-pay.html - 106k -
Do you know why nobody talks about these high paying College presindents and adminitrators?
Plenty of people talk about it. You may not read the places they talk about it, but there is plenty of talk.
Try The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. You may need get access through a good library.
How snooty. I’m sure those publications want reductions in their establishment salaries right?
I can’t believe I actually paid off my student loan. What a fool I am!
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Permanent Democrat Supermajority
Let ‘em in! American needs future buyers and furure voters.
Realtors are liars
Rampant housing fraud. Rampant rampant housing fraud. Housing fraud is increasingly rampant with each passing day.
Here’s a small report on my area based on several long jogs: There are more vacant houses than there are houses for sale, yet houses for sale turn to sale pending right away. A guy at work listed his house (doesn’t live in my neighborhood though) and it sold for full price the same day.
It reminds me of the scene in Bridge over the River Kwai: “Madness…Madness”
Your madness is my reality.
report on my area ??
What zip code ??
Sorry. Suburb of Portlandia…
You think obama will ever have this moment?
Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson: What have I done?
There are more vacant houses than there are houses for sale, yet houses for sale turn to sale pending right away.
This should remove any doubt that the Banking Clan is holding back shadow inventory to pump up the market. And as long as they don’t have to realize their loses and the cost of funds for them is essentially 0%, the charade will continue.
A few houses in my nabe are being offered for sale and so far the “under contract” stickers have been conspicuous by their absence. Houses are still selling quickly in cheaper (under 200K) neighborhoods though
Denver, on the other hand, is still bubbly, at least according to my coworkers.
I still see houses sitting for a long time in Phoenix. However, there is also still evidence that sellers are waiting for current houses to go off market before listing their own. That would not be possible if the banking cartel did not have an arrangement with the US government to collude by holding their inventory off the market all at once.
Is it “go time” yet?
http://www.infowars.com/white-house-obama-prepared-to-act-unilaterally-again-using-executive-authority-on-guns/
Laws and taxes are for the little people.
Why do we even have elections?
Why do we even have a house and senate?
And why don’t liberals/democrats comprehend that these same tactics will be used AGAINST them one day?
Taxes are for the sheople brainwashed into thinking America would suffer without taxes (as if it suffered before 1913). It is no coincidence American imperialism began when the 16th amendment was added to the constitution.
You can cut your own taxes substantially. I had a very low tax rate for thirteen years at the federal and state level. Well under 20%. One year my combined rate was under 10%. All done legally.
I don’t do that now because I’m a wage slaver, but when I go back consulting in three years I’m not going to be a sheople.
There was plenty of suffering in America before 1913. But we don’t know much about that. Only rich people make it into the textbooks.
LIEberal logic of yours did not fool me: “But we don’t know much about that. ” If “we” don’t know about that then you cannot be sure that “there was plenty of suffering in America before 1913.”
Geesh.
owning a home makes me feel important.
No doubt. I feel like emperor everyday. I bet even Ceasar never felt this way.
Owning a home in a place that turns ghetto makes your posterior black and blue from the kick of your own boot heels.
I didn’t know Hoagie Waller is a lying realtor
ORCHESTRATED AT THE BORDER
Do you truly believe that these minors being lest in at the border are all or most unaccompanied?
Do you truly believe there are many unaccompanied small children?
Do you truly believe they are all from Guatemala or El Salvador?
If I was a poor Mexican kid, where would i be headed right now, with a story about being from El Salvador?
Are there enough fast food jobs for a huge influx of 15-17 year olds?
What does that do to crime?
How can you be both a communist and a high net worth individual?
The only way is to come in to be born into money or inherit money that you did not earn. Enough to not have to actually work.
(Working for papa doesnt count).
2banana’s Rule:
Conservative are more than happy to live under the same laws they want for everyone else.
Liberals/Democrats expect to be exempted from the laws they want for everyone else.
“The only way is to come in to be born into money or inherit money that you did not earn.”
Even that doesn’t work. A true commie would have to give up the inherited money to keep their membership card. Any net worth assumes private ownership of capital which isn’t allowed.
All time record high in DC:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/where-we-live/wp/2014/06/10/median-price-for-home-in-d-c-region-hits-record-high-for-month-of-may/
The insane housing bubbles V2.0 will save retail and the country…
The obama recovery will save us all…
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Retail’s Death Rattle Grows Louder
rickackerman.com | June 2, 2014 | Rick Ackerman
America’s supposed recovery from The Great Recession is a hoax so obvious that only the mainstream news media, too lazy, cowardly and stupid to stray even an inch from the officially approved narrative, could fail to see it. And yet, here we are, so glutted with brick-and-mortar retail space that even if it were to be reduced by half there would still be an economically fatal overhang. Sales are plummeting and malls are dying – a matter of no small consequence, considering that retail business supposedly makes up two-thirds of America’s GDP.
The absolute collapse in retail visitor counts is the warning siren that this country is about to collide with the reality Americans have run out of time, money, jobs, and illusions. The exponential growth model, built upon a never ending flow of consumer credit and an endless supply of cheap fuel, has reached its limit of growth. The titans of Wall Street and their puppets in Washington D.C. have wrung every drop of faux wealth from the dying middle class. There are nothing left but withering carcasses and bleached bones.
The implications of this long and winding road to ruin are far reaching. Store closings so far have only been a ripple compared to the tsunami coming to right size the industry for a future of declining spending. Over the next five to ten years, tens of thousands of stores will be shuttered. Companies like JC Penney, Sears and Radio Shack will go bankrupt and become historical footnotes. Considering retail employment is lower today than it was in 2002 before the massive retail expansion, the future will see in excess of 1 million retail workers lose their jobs. Bernanke and the Feds have allowed real estate mall owners to roll over non-performing loans and pretend they are generating enough rental income to cover their loan obligations. As more stores go dark, this little game of extend and pretend will come to an end.
Retail store results for the 1st quarter of 2014 have been rolling in over the last week. It seems the hideous government reported retail sales results over the last six months are being confirmed by the dying bricks and mortar mega-chains. In case you missed the corporate mainstream media not reporting the facts and doing their usual positive spin, here are the absolutely dreadful headlines:
Wal-Mart Profit Plunges By $220 Million as US Store Traffic Declines by 1.4%
Target Profit Plunges by $80 Million…as Store Traffic Declines by 2.3%
Sears Loses $358 Million in Q1 as Comparable Store Sales Plunge by 7.8%
Sales at Kmart Plunge by 5.1%
JC Penney Thrilled With Loss of Only $358 Million For the Quarter
Kohl’s Operating Income Plunges by 17% as Comparable Sales Decline by 3.4%
Costco Profit Declines by $84 Million as Comp Store Sales Only Increase by 2%
Staples Profit Plunges by 44% as Sales Collapse and Closing Hundreds of Stores
Gap Income Drops 22% as Same Store Sales Fall
American Eagle Profits Tumble 86%, Will Close 150 Stores
Aeropostale Losses $77 Million as Sales Collapse by 12%
Best Buy Sales Decline by $300 Million as Margins Decline and Comparable Store Sales Decline by 1.3%
Macy’s Profit Flat as Comparable Store Sales decline by 1.4%
Dollar General Profit Plummets by 40% as Comp Store Sales Decline by 3.8%
Urban Outfitters Earnings Collapse by 20% as Sales Stagnate
McDonald’s Earnings Fall by $66 Million as US Comp Sales Fall by 1.7%
Darden Profit Collapses by 30% as Same Restaurant Sales Plunge by 5.6% and Company Selling Red Lobster
TJX Misses Earnings Expectations as Sales & Earnings Flat
Dick’s Misses Earnings Expectations as Golf Store Sales Plummet
Home Depot Misses Earnings Expectations as Customer Traffic Only Rises by 2.2%
Lowes Misses Earnings Expectations as Customer Traffic was Flat
The secret to retail success before 2007 was: create or copy a successful concept; get Wall Street financing and go public ASAP; source all your inventory from Far East slave labor factories; hire thousands of minimum wage level workers to process transactions; build hundreds of new stores every year to cover up the fact the existing stores had deteriorating performance; convince millions of gullible dupes to buy cheap Chinese shit they didn’t need with money they didn’t have; and pretend this didn’t solely rely upon cheap easy debt pumped into the veins of American consumers by the Federal Reserve and their Wall Street bank owners. The financial crisis in 2008 revealed everyone was swimming naked, when the tide of easy credit subsided.
The pundits, politicians and delusional retail CEOs continue to await the revival of retail sales as if reality doesn’t exist. The 1 million retail stores, 109,000 shopping centers, and nearly 15 billion square feet of retail space for an aging, increasingly impoverished, and savings poor populace might be a tad too much and will require a slight downsizing – say 3 or 4 billion square feet.
There is 47 square feet of retail space per person in America. This is 8 times as much as any other country on earth. This is up from 38 square feet in 2005; 30 square feet in 2000; 19 square feet in 1990; and 4 square feet in 1960. If we just revert to 2005 levels, 3 billion square feet would need to go dark. Does that sound outrageous?
This decline in household income may have something to do with the labor participation rate plummeting to the lowest level since 1978. There are 247.4 million working age Americans and only 145.7 million of them employed (19 million part-time; 9 million self-employed; 20 million employed by the government). There are 92 million Americans, who according to the government have willingly left the workforce, up by 13.3 million since 2007 when over 146 million Americans were employed. You’d have to be a brainless twit to believe the unemployment rate is really 6.3% today. Retail sales would be booming if the unemployment rate was really that low.
You need to look no further than your friendly Too Big To Trust Wall Street banks for the answer. In the olden days of the 1970s and early 1980s Americans put 10% to 20% down to buy a house and then systematically built up equity by making their monthly payments. The Ivy League financial engineers created “exotic” (toxic) mortgage products requiring no money down, no principal payments, and no proof you could make a payment, in their control fraud scheme to fleece the American sheeple. Their propaganda machine convinced millions more to use their homes as an ATM, because home prices never drop. Just ask Ben Bernanke. Even after the Bernanke/Blackrock fake housing recovery (actual mortgage originations now at 1978 levels) household real estate percent equity is barely above 50%, well below the 70% levels before the Wall Street induced debt debacle. With the housing market about to head south again, the home equity ATM will have an Out of Order sign on it.
We hear the endless drivel from disingenuous Keynesian nitwits about government and consumer austerity being the cause of our stagnating economy. My definition of austerity would be an actual reduction in spending and debt accumulation. It seems during this time of austerity total credit market debt has RISEN from $53.5 trillion in 2009 to $59 trillion today. Not exactly austere, as the Federal government adds $2.2 billion PER DAY to the national debt, saddling future generations with the bill for our inability to confront reality. The American consumer has not retrenched, as the CNBC bimbos and bozos would have you believe. Consumer credit reached an all-time high of $3.14 trillion in March, up from $2.52 trillion in 2010. That doesn’t sound too austere to me. Of course, this increase is solely due to Obamanomics and Bernanke’s $3 trillion gift to his Wall Street owners. The doling out of $645 billion to subprime college “students” and subprime auto “buyers” since 2010 accounts for more than 100% of the increase. The losses on these asinine loans will be epic. Credit card debt has actually fallen as people realize it is their last lifeline. They are using credit cards to pay income taxes, real estate taxes, higher energy costs, higher food costs, and the other necessities of life.
The inevitable shuttering of at least 3 billion square feet of retail space is a certainty. The aging demographics of the U.S. population, dire economic situation of both young and old, and sheer lunacy of the retail expansion since 2000, guarantee a future of ghost malls, decaying weed infested empty parking lots, retailer bankruptcies, real estate developer bankruptcies, massive loan losses for the banking industry, and the loss of millions of retail jobs. Since I always look for a silver lining in a black cloud, I predict a bright future for the SPACE AVAILABLE and GOING OUT OF BUSINESS sign making companies.
“When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled ‘made in Germany’; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism’”
– New York Times, September 12, 1938.
These colors don’t run.
Feedom isn’t free.
USA USA USA USA USA!!!!
What these kidz need are $500,000 starter homes!
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/half-of-parents-support-their-kids-after-college-2014-06-09
Those sweater folding jobs at The Gap don’t pay a whole lot and are only part time.
America’s middle class: Poorer than you think
http://www.abc15.com/news/national/americas-middle-class-poorer-than-you-think
Bigger and bigger government with more and more regulations and higher and higher taxes will save them…
It worked well in Zimbabwe and Brazil.
Seems owning homes outright builds some wealth. Also seems countries with greater safety nets enable more wealth building than America’s brand of failed crony-capitalism. From that article:
“There’s one main reason why the average Spaniard or Italian has more to his name than the typical American: real estate.
Home ownership rates are higher in many European countries than in the U.S., giving Joe European more assets to his name than his American counterpart. Plus, it’s easier for Americans to borrow money, which eats away at their net worth, said Jim Davies, an economics professor at Western University in Ontario, Canada, and co-author of the Credit Suisse report.
Middle class Americans were also hurt greatly by the housing collapse at the end of the last decade. The median wealth of families was $77,300 in 2010, a nearly 40% drop from 2007, according to Federal Reserve statistics.
“Changes in home prices have a big effect on the wealth in the middle,” Davies said.
Middle class Australians, by comparison, are leading the pack. The country’s residents have the highest median net worth, coming in at $219,500. Australia also has low wealth inequality.”
Hmmm …
Are people in these other countries “wealthier” because of their social safety nets, or because their housing markets are bubbly beyond belief? It’s one thing to have wealth in cash equivalents vs. having equity that isn’t very liquid at all.
After the US bubble burst, there were all sorts of strategies to reassure Canadians that we wouldn’t have a similar crash. One such strategy was to point out Canadian debt to asset ratios were in good shape. Of course debt to asset ratios tend to look good before a bubble bursts, but less so after.
Bank of Nova Scotia has a slogan, ‘you’re richer than you think’. I think this was largely based on untapped equity gains during the run up, which might be finally ending.
America’s middle class: Poorer than you think
Isn’t that in part because most poor people think of themselves as “middle class” and consider those who truly are middle class as “rich”?
The Qualified Mortgage (QM) rule continues to be quietly degraded. With government being basically the entirety of the housing finance market - buying and insuring virtually all new mortgages since 2008 - this is to be expected. Lobbyists are paid big money to get this done. QM is a trojan horse. It was a brilliant tactical move by the FIRE sector.
Mortgage Choice Act Would Jeopardize Responsible Lending Practices
“We must not undermine the progress we have made,” says Ken Edwards
Marketwired
via finance.yahoo.com
June 9, 2014 2:12 PM
WASHINGTON, DC–(Marketwired - June 09, 2014) - Today, the House of Representatives will vote on the so-called “Mortgage Choice Act” — a bill that would threaten the safety of home loans and leave consumers vulnerable to excessive fees.
“It’s deeply concerning how quickly we forget the devastating impact that abusive lending practices had on the housing market and the larger economy,” said Kenneth W. Edwards, Vice President of Federal Affairs at the Center for Responsible Lending. “Countless houses lost, innumerable families affected — and after a long, hard-fought battle to pass the necessary reforms to protect our homes, we find ourselves here again.”
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mortgage-choice-act-jeopardize-responsible-181251596.html
Contrast that reaction with the one from the NAR:
REALTORS® Applaud House Passage of Mortgage Choice Act
NAR Press Release
WASHINGTON (June 10, 2014) – The following is a statement by National Association of Realtors® President Steve Brown:
“The Mortgage Choice Act that passed the U.S. House of Representatives last night importantly redefines a provision in the Ability-to-Repay rules that limits mortgage fees and points to three percent in order for home loans to be considered Qualified Mortgages.
“Realtors® will continue to advocate for this legislation to clarify the QM rules as it moves to the U.S. Senate.
http://www.realtor.org/news-releases/2014/06/realtors-applaud-house-passage-of-mortgage-choice-act
+1
Instead of putting the QRM rule as one of a couple of hundred rules for others to draft pursuant to Dodd Frank, we would have been FAR better off if we actually debated QRM and the role of government in mortgages for everyone to see.
Instead, a key to Dodd Frank is being neutered in back alleys by lobbyists 4 years after the law was passed.
Mosul Seized: Jihadis Loot $429m from City’s Central Bank to Make Isis World’s Richest Terror Force
No worries. I will print more and send it their way.
–Janet Yellin
Are there ANY successes in 6 years of obama’s foreign policy???
Are there ANY successes in 5 years of clinton as Secretary of State???
Um, well, yes. The country is in a much better position than it was before those two took office. Much, much better. You’re just mad because you wanted the country to fall apart, but it didn’t.
The country is in a much better position than it was before those two took office.
You are getting stoned pretty early in the morning. The country has almost twice the national debt as when he took office, the highway fund is broke, the disability fund is close to broke and medicare is not far behind, Putin openly mocks us and makes a fool of the U.S. at every turn, the entire middle east is in turmoil with hundreds of thousands of people being killed. If that is not coming apart I did not know what that means, we have never been weaker or more broke or closer to losing our reserve currency status.
The country has almost twice the national debt as when he took office,
Only doubled? Reagan tripled it. Reagan’s the World Cup Debt champion.
the entire middle east is in turmoil with hundreds of thousands of people being killed.
Are you talking about 2004 or something when we were killing them or about now when they are killing themselves.
we have never been weaker
I know right? The only superpower left. There used to be 2. And now there’s only one and it’s us. And our military that was in two wars before Obama is coming home unbeaten. But we’ve “never been weaker”.
And we are crawling out of the worst Recession since the GDpression.
Bottom line:
The country is in a much better position than it was before Obama/Biden took office.
All of this stuff would have happened no matter who was in power. Every new president will be the new worst president based on outcomes. The US and the rest of the Western World is on a very clear trajectory.
Syria says it is ready to help Iraq fight jihadist ‘terror’
YNET | 06/11/14 | Roi Kais
Assad offers to help Iraq rid itself of al-Qaeda group which took over Mosul, saying ‘Damascus ready to cooperate with Iraq to face terrorism, our common enemy’
crater
Next executive order coming up…
How does one define a tyrant?
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Obama Suggests US Needs Ban On Semiautomatic, Automatic Weapons
dailycaller.com | 6/10/2014 | Neil Munro
….Obama Tuesday suggested that the U.S. government should follow Australia’s example in dealing with shooting sprees, which involved strict gun bans on semiautomatic and automatic weapons.
“Australia had a mass shooting [in 1996] similar to Columbine and Newtown, and just said, ‘That’s it, we’re not seeing that again,’ and basically imposed very severe tough gun laws and they haven’t had a mass shooting since,” Obama said, after he was asked for his reaction to recent shooting episodes in California and Oregon. Those laws included the confiscation of nearly all handguns and rifles.
One of my favorite hypocrisies is that it is the same people who assure us that it would be absolutely impossible to identify and deport 12 million criminal invader illegal aliens also believe that they will be able to confiscate all 100+ million guns in this country.
And to you coastal elitist grabbers, Molon Labe
They also assume that government can run a healthcare system for over 300 million and monitor payments and insurance.
Australia also has fewer people than Canada.
I wonder sometimes about the people who tell us we shouldn’t have weapons, because that leads to violence. Why are these same people armed to the teeth?
The biggest thing I learned in this last housing crash is that a proper crash can be averted by the masses just saying “I cannot take the loss”.
Probably several who wouldn’t recognize the loss early lost even more later.
But by the masses sliding on the line, prices did not go down to where they should have.
Outright market panic was avoided because prospective losers had no options thus causing a delayed withdrawal which slowed the rate of losses.
Because the bankers could not afford higher leverage they were also forced into the same slow withdrawal strategy.
I don’t know if housing will go down - although it seems entirely possible because of the decaying inventories, possible shift in expectations (ie 1200sf single family vs 3500sf), etc.
” I don’t know if housing will go down - although it seems entirely possible because of the decaying inventories, possible shift in expectations (ie 1200sf single family vs 3500sf), etc.”
I wouldn’t define that as housing going down. Yes, the average will do down, but equivalent housing will stay the same.* It’s like renters telling me that I can save money by living in a 1-bed apartment instead of a 3/2 SFH and land. Well, duh.
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*or even rise a little bit due to other decaying inventory. People are so grateful to find a house that isn’t trashed, that they are willing to pay a little more for it. I saw that when I was househunting in neighborhood full of cluttered and neglected strawberry picker houses.
Junkie,
You have a creative imagination.
“and land”
Oh, the land. At least you can grow your own food.
It seems to be going down a bit right now, but I am crossing my fingers for a much bigger decline.
I was in Newfoundland last week and noticed a new type of economy.
Newfoundland has always been regarded as a “have not” province and get to exclude their massive oil revenues from their equalization payments so the provincial government is well off and is doing great with “their” infrastructure as a result of the extra cash.
A large part of the populace is out west working in the oil fields making $150,000 plus a year and get 10 days at home every month -free. You can tell who they are - they all drive 4X4 crew cab pickups, have paved driveways, and their homes are beautiful. They also own a lot of toys, especially for hunting and fishing.
But the municipalities are starving. They cannot afford to live like their migrant workforce or their provincial counterparts because of a mixed income population base within their borders. They have to tax based on the housing worth - not a mixed ability to pay. “Their” infrastructure that they are responsible for is hurting.
Cape Breton is in the same boat.
One thing for sure. They are the most friendly people on the face of this earth !
They should raise the sales tax. That will capture the ” mixed ability to pay” for all those trucks and toyz.
Sales taxes are done by the province - not by the municipalities.
I was thinking they should support local employment more vigorously - ie ensure their people get the lucrative oil and gas jobs - not someone from Bahrain, Eygpt, etc on work permits ! (Newfoundland has it’s own major oil and gas regions).
We’ve all been told how great a deal the provincial politicians made on oil leases and royalties when in fact they gave away the candy store and most of the candy in it.
For a province raking in hundreds of millions and only half a million people they can afford at least 100 well paying jobs in at least 200 small communities. Have you any idea of what a wonderful province they would become if they did that ?
Canadians were called ‘America Lite’ for a reason. Less drama IMHO. Still, they can be cheap SOBs.
Waiting briefly for a train at the Forest Hill Station platform this morning I heard two smartly dressed office workers talking with loud indignation. They were both astounded that partners at their firm had taken big sums of cash as loans from the firm in order to buy condos in San Francisco, one for $950k and the other for $850k. When people are so anxious to get on the high end of the market that they borrow their down payments that usually indicates exuberance rising.
Then I got online and read on Socketsite that a nice but challenged one bedroom unit on Market Street that had recently been bought for $1200/sqft was flipped for around $1300/sqft.
San Francisco is at least as much a freakish outlier as ever, but it is hard not to notice that strong fundamentals have taken a back seat to bubble dynamics.
Hello Mole Man. Long time no see. Welcome to the rebubble!
Dang I guess I misread the DNC “talking point memo” this morning. The Dems are happy. I was and am not. I made a pretty glum post about Cantor’s loss being bad for American politics in that it might stunt compromise and neuter the GOP but the Dems are actually happy. Guess I didn’t get the “right script”.
Here’s part of what I said vs what the headlines below are showing. There is no rejoicing. Just original thought, a tepid prediction of the obvious imo and a little sadness for America.
“…..In that sense the GOP loses by its far-right faction winning (Against Cantor) and because the GOP loses, the far-right loses it’s only mechanism of power on a federal level. In other words, most political change in America is done at the margins of compromise, and the new GOP will allow less and less of that. And even though it makes the next president more likely another Democrat, seeing (The GOP) a once proud party engaged in a losing civil war with itself, allowing less compromise, means America loses too.” Rio
Current Headlines:
Democrats Rejoice After Cantor’s ‘Unfrigginbelievable’ Loss
Business Insider-6 hours ago
Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s loss left the political world stunned Tuesday night, including a Democratic Party official who …
Democrats Revel in Cantor’s Loss, Seek Funds for November
Newsmax.com-16 hours ago
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reveled in House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s loss in Virginia on Tuesday, and used the …
Democrats Quickly Fundraise Off of Cantor Loss: Stop the Tea Party
Town Hall-by Katie Pavlich-7 hours ago
In case you missed it last night, Rep. Eric Cantor lost his primary to Professor David Brat in one of the “biggest upsets ever seen.” The majority …
In Maryland, Democrats Gansler and Mizeur find inspiration in Cantor’s loss in Virginia
Washington Post-3 hours ago
Two Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls in Maryland are among … party backing in the Republican primary in Cantor’s Richmond-area district.
By all means, let’s see who stands where:
‘But with Eric Cantor’s shocking defeat Tuesday night, things for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable just got a whole lot worse.’
‘For one, they lost a major defender of their favored policies–from the beneficial tax treatment of private equity income to immigration reforms favored by the country’s biggest tech companies. But even worse for their prospects, Cantor lost to a challenger who specifically attacked him for his close ties to big business — going so far as to single out the BRT and the Chamber.’
‘“If you’re in big business, Eric’s been very good to you, and he gets a lot of donations because of that, right?” Brat said at a local meeting of Republicans in Virginia, according to Politico. “Very powerful. Very good at fundraising because he favors big business. But when you’re favoring artificially big business, someone’s paying the tab for that. Someone’s paying the price for that, and guess who that is? You.”
‘While everyone is focused on Brat’s critique of Cantor’s immigration stance, that attack came in the broader context of the increasingly potent “crony capitalism” theme. For instance, Brat went after Cantor specifically for his support of strengthening the H1B visa program, a policy especially favored by tech companies such as Facebook since it allows them to hire more engineers from overseas. Critics have said that the program allows firms to seek cheaper labor to maximize profits and puts foreign workers ahead of Americans.’
‘Here’s how Brat attacked Cantor for it on Twitter: with a photo of him standing right next to Mark Zuckerberg.’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/10/why-cantors-loss-is-especially-bad-news-for-big-business/
I wonder where “libertarians” really stand.
“Brat is a strict Christian Reconstructionist, which means that he supports a theocratic government and holds extraordinarily radical beliefs when it comes to the role that God should play in the lives of believers and non-believers alike. As far as Reconstructionists are concerned, the Bible is the standard for morality that all must adhere to and those in violation of its tenets as they interpret them — gays, blasphemers, the irredeemably sinful — should be subject to punishment by the state. In fact, Rousas John Rushdoony, who founded the Calvinist-based sect, declared that Christianity and democracy were “inevitably enemies.”
http://thedailybanter.com/2014/06/dave-brat-jesus-not-another-one-of-these-aholes/
Dave Brat: Jesus, Not Another One of These A**holes
And once the “heathens” have been purged, he will go after “unapproved” Christian denominations and their members, which will ultimately end up being anyone who isn’t a member of his fundy church.
If the Dems can’t beat this guy, they’re idiots (and they might very well be idiots)
If the Dems can’t beat this guy, they’re idiots (and they might very well be idiots)
He’ll probably become complete un-evangelical, refusing to discuss the details of his beliefs.
Typical LIEberal. If they cannot attack their opponent on their economic stands they do an ad hominem attack on their religion.
Typical LIEberal. If they cannot attack their opponent on their economic stands they do an ad hominem attack on their religion.
As I said, you are not a Libertarian Bill. You are a fake. No libertarian would stand up for this guy:
holds extraordinarily radical beliefs when it comes to the role that God should play in the lives of believers and non-believers alike. As far as Reconstructionists are concerned, the Bible is the standard for morality that all must adhere to and those in violation of its tenets as they interpret them
Bill, you are a fraud.
I’m an atheist. But I don’t do ad hominem attacks. YOU are the real fraud.
So when are you going to walk the walk and share all your wealth? You’re the socialist.
“Typical LIEberal. If they cannot attack their opponent on their economic stands they do an ad hominem attack on their religion.”
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
We all have different ideas about things, and sometimes that makes for interesting conversation. Some of us or sometimes we have agendas and that makes for useless conversation. Rio is a ball of jello with narrow agendas in an open cesspool. That only makes for stinky conversation.
The spin doctors have been out today, talking about this. So, I’m going to add my spin / observation: I don’t think there’s any good reason why the standard of living should be declining in this country.
Yes, the rest of the world is coming on line, getting wealthier. But unless economics is a zero sum game (is it? I dont’ think so), everyone should be getting better off. Instead the dynamic in this country is that a very small slice of society is getting better off, while broad swaths are seeing their standard of living, and prospects for their children, decline.
And the cause of this? Crony capitalism - being sold out by politicians. Government of the highest bidder, by the highest bidder, for the highest bidder. Congress derelict in its duty to take action to boost jobs and economic justice. Leaving the central bankers to dictate policy the only way they know how - borrow and print, and push debt. Cantor wasn’t doing anything any other politician does. His funding sheet looked like any other politician’s.
I guess we’ll find out in November if there’s some real desire for change among the general voting public.
“I guess we’ll find out in November…”
No, I don’t think so. Most of us are corrupted debt junkies and have helped pull the whole place into the mess it’s in. It’s the mania of a civilization, not the decade or the century.
Everyone must check in.
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And if you don’t know what region you need to check in from, a helpful map:
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Present and accounted for in Region IV
Region IX, shall i press the button?
What Really Happened Radio Show: Michael Rivero Tuesday June …
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It’s good to see a zionist get his legs taken out. And in this case, the guy who took him out appears on the ball.
‘Brat is an incisive critic of the Surveillance State. On his campaign web site, he went after Cantor for voting for the NDAA and against Rep. Justin Amash’s legislation that would have reined in the NSA. As the Brat campaign put it: “Dave believes that the Constitution does not need to be compromised for matters of national security. He supports the end of bulk phone and email data collection by the NSA, IRS, or any other branch of government.”
‘Not only that, but Brat went after Cantor for voting for the National Defense and Authorization Act (NDAA) on the grounds that it “authorizes the unconstitutional bulk data collection by the government under the PRISM program.” He also savaged Cantor for voting against Rep. Justin Amash’s amendment to the Act, which would have stopped bulk collection dead in its tracks.’
‘There’s already talk it’s all about the immigration issue, but this underplays – perhaps deliberately – Brat’s explicit identification with libertarianism in this interview with Breitbart.com.’
‘Interestingly, the Breitbart piece cites the Cantor campaign as claiming Brat “supports excluding active duty military personnel from voting in Republican nominations contests,” slyly implying he’s insufficiently supportive of the military (and probably one of them peaceniks). That tried-and-true neocon ploy obviously didn’t work.’
….. and an economist.
Congress is getting schooled that being a Red Sea Pedestrian™ doesn’t score as many bonus points as it used to. AIPAC, go to the back of the line with all the others looking for handouts…
There’s a related article in the WaPo about this. It’s somewhat interesting, though unimportant in substance.
The GOP just lost its only non-Christian in Congress
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s primary loss means Congress will soon say goodbye to its only Jewish Republican.
And not only that; it also means there will likely be no Republicans in Congress who profess to be anything other than a Christian.
According to data collected by the Pew Forum at the start of the 113th Congress last year, the GOP conference was 69 percent Protestant, 25 percent Catholic, 4 percent Mormon and 1 percent Orthodox Christian.
Cantor (Va.) was the only member of any other faith on the Republican side in either the House or the Senate — out of 278 members. There are no non-religious Republicans in Congress either.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/11/the-gop-just-lost-its-only-non-christian-in-congress/
“though unimportant in substance.”
You’re right so why post it?
As I wrote, I found it somewhat interesting to read. I thought that others might as well. Also, the topic of the lack of diveristy within the GOP comes up on this blog from time to time, which could affect the outcome of future elections a bit.
What’s important is what the government actually does. That’s why I wrote that the subject is frivolous. I personally don’t care about the religion of the people who are supposed to represent me.
Besides, aren’t you the one who writes about your love of Cheetos?
And when you’ve got no defense, you talk about cheetos. Well done.
Shills gotta shill. MightyMikey is scaredy of Nowembie
How is that shilling? It’s just an article that I thought might be interesting to some people.
“Red Sea Pedestrian™”
+1 Love it.
Yeah that one is stellar.
Monty Python, Life of Brian.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/11/great-recession-suicide-numbers/10351157/
So the cure is to be like Sweden and tax everyone 90% to prevent 10,000 more suicides? Lola would love it as long as it’s OPM and not his.