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MikeB314
Reply #3 Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:00 AM
Reply #3 Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:00 AM
Remember that time you found a quarter on the sidewalk? That was it! 
WebGizmos
Reply #4 Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:14 AM
Reply #4 Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:14 AM
Oh...that only kicks in when you become homeless. Thats what you get when your sleeping in the sidewalk and dog comes along and...well....you get the picture. Kinda gives a warm feeling all over huh. 
eieio
Reply #5 Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:54 AM
Reply #5 Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:54 AM
Yeah ... those greedy fucking capitalists! 
Boy, am I glad there aren't any capitalists here ... uh ..oh, wait
.. nevermind 
Boy, am I glad there aren't any capitalists here ... uh ..oh, wait
.. nevermind 
ZubaZ
Reply #6 Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:28 AM
Reply #6 Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:28 AM
I read "tickle" too.
Trickle down is incentive to move up.
Trickle down is incentive to move up.
messiah1
Reply #9 Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:19 AM
Or a Hot Pocket..."Good Morning, you're about to call in sick" Google Jim Gaffigan Hot Pocket
Reply #9 Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:19 AM
I figured this was gonna be about a bad burrito...
Or a Hot Pocket..."Good Morning, you're about to call in sick" Google Jim Gaffigan Hot Pocket
mike b1954
Reply #10 Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:00 AM
Reply #10 Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:00 AM
hehe !~ Made me look too .... Good on yer , NT !!
( I thought you had a bowel problem , NT ~ but then I realised it was only a bum thread, anyway !!! )
Sorry guys, Pun intended !!
( I thought you had a bowel problem , NT ~ but then I realised it was only a bum thread, anyway !!! )
Sorry guys, Pun intended !!
Uvah
Reply #11 Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:55 PM
(Holding nose and turning blue in the face)
Who can resist a look?
not that kind! sheesh...the thread the thread.
Reply #11 Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:55 PM
I thought you had a bowel problem
(Holding nose and turning blue in the face)
Who can resist a look?
not that kind! sheesh...the thread the thread.
Chasbo
Reply #12 Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:34 PM
Reply #12 Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:34 PM
Yeah it trickles down to the taxpayers. Here's how it works: In the 80's Reagan deregulates the banking system. Over time greed trickles in, they let ANYBODY get a mortgage. They come up with ARM mortgages but people don't understand how they work. The people who get them don't read the fine print. They say they are letting people realize the American dream but in reality they are just looking at making a fast buck. When the rates on the ARMs go up and the people who have them can't afford to pay them they lose their houses and the banks get stuck with the houses. By now there are so many of these houses and the banks have actually lost money on them because they weren't really worth what people tried buying them for in the first place. An artificial market was created in order to feed the greed. It was all a bunch of shit. Now the banks are freaking out because they have to account for all this useless property. Who is gonna buy all these houses? Most of those people who had the ARMs can't refinance because they shouldn't have been able to get a mortgage in the first place and now their credit is so bad because of missing payments they couldn't make that the banks won't give them money anymore. So some very big banks are on the verge of going under. Who bails them out? The Federal Government using OUR MONEY! TAX PAYERS MONEY! MY MONEY! WELFARE FOR RICH PEOPLE! That's how it trickles down......
XX
Reply #14 Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:40 PM
Reply #14 Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:40 PM
Trickle down worked. It trickled down our economy last time, correct?
HG_Eliminator
Reply #15 Friday, April 11, 2008 12:16 AM
**Wonders why this title would prompt one to look in side**
Reply #15 Friday, April 11, 2008 12:16 AM
Oops..... I read Tickle my ass....nevermind
**Wonders why this title would prompt one to look in side**
Vampothika
Reply #16 Friday, April 11, 2008 12:34 AM
Reply #16 Friday, April 11, 2008 12:34 AM
yeah i read tickle too........then i frowned and squinted until i read it right......
down here in aussie heaps of real estate vulturs are making tons off the poor sods who cant afford to pay their mortgage anymore (rate increases are just nuts down here atm)
i heard on the news i think last week that people who would lose their homes this year was *certain percent* cant remember the exact figure, but it was really really bad........
(
I feel for those who have a home and are struggling just to 'keep' it.....let alone put food on the table, pay for bills ect....and just generally live. Most times its a drowning struggle.......
im in the same boat, cept i rent.....still struggle like every other ordinary average joe.......
down here in aussie heaps of real estate vulturs are making tons off the poor sods who cant afford to pay their mortgage anymore (rate increases are just nuts down here atm)
i heard on the news i think last week that people who would lose their homes this year was *certain percent* cant remember the exact figure, but it was really really bad........
(
I feel for those who have a home and are struggling just to 'keep' it.....let alone put food on the table, pay for bills ect....and just generally live. Most times its a drowning struggle.......
im in the same boat, cept i rent.....still struggle like every other ordinary average joe.......
starkers
Reply #17 Friday, April 11, 2008 5:14 AM
Reply #17 Friday, April 11, 2008 5:14 AM
Back in the late eighties early nineties, I was working as a furniture removalist (movers t'
you yankees), and the largest majority of our clients were people who'd had their homes repossessed... and not all of them were on the low income end. Some of them had previously been corporate big wigs, CEO's and the like.
Suddenly the middle class was becoming Oz's new poor... and the old poor were herded into greater destitution. That's what deregulating the banks and interest rates did here, and given the state of affairs as is, ever greater numbers will lose their homes here in the next couple of years or so... because lil Johnny (our former PM) had lost his hearing aids when major economists warned he and his government that economic change was imperative id this country's home owners/buyers were to keep rooves over their heads.
Now here's oner for ya from back in the late eighties, a business owner had his home repossessed due to inability to pay the higher interest rates... and get this... the bank (which bank..OZ joke) offered to rent it back to him for $30.00 per month than those mortgage repayments he couldn't make.
Oh, and another bank here in OZ, when they repossess homes, they rent them out to their own employees at more than reasonable rates... let's say 50% or more below the market rent for those properties.
YEP, it's GREED, JOBS for the BOYS, and PATS on the BACK for the folks who are IN league with the bank bosses.
YUP, lawyers, politicians and bankers...what a FILTHY mob they are
OK...gripe, chip spitting session over.
you yankees), and the largest majority of our clients were people who'd had their homes repossessed... and not all of them were on the low income end. Some of them had previously been corporate big wigs, CEO's and the like.
Suddenly the middle class was becoming Oz's new poor... and the old poor were herded into greater destitution. That's what deregulating the banks and interest rates did here, and given the state of affairs as is, ever greater numbers will lose their homes here in the next couple of years or so... because lil Johnny (our former PM) had lost his hearing aids when major economists warned he and his government that economic change was imperative id this country's home owners/buyers were to keep rooves over their heads.
Now here's oner for ya from back in the late eighties, a business owner had his home repossessed due to inability to pay the higher interest rates... and get this... the bank (which bank..OZ joke) offered to rent it back to him for $30.00 per month than those mortgage repayments he couldn't make.
Oh, and another bank here in OZ, when they repossess homes, they rent them out to their own employees at more than reasonable rates... let's say 50% or more below the market rent for those properties.
YEP, it's GREED, JOBS for the BOYS, and PATS on the BACK for the folks who are IN league with the bank bosses.
YUP, lawyers, politicians and bankers...what a FILTHY mob they are
OK...gripe, chip spitting session over.
NightTrainthedark
Reply #18 Friday, April 11, 2008 5:49 AM
Reply #18 Friday, April 11, 2008 5:49 AM
Todays uneducated thought...
Privitization of education will be mankind's stupidest move after privitizing healthcare.
cause clearly,... profit is more important than edumacation and health.
/ not anti capitalism. Just anti- greed.
Privitization of education will be mankind's stupidest move after privitizing healthcare.
cause clearly,... profit is more important than edumacation and health.
/ not anti capitalism. Just anti- greed.
WebGizmos
Reply #19 Friday, April 11, 2008 5:59 AM
Reply #19 Friday, April 11, 2008 5:59 AM
Well....us here in the group W bench think we should all just revolt and teach our kids at home and all buy mobile homes. Then they can all try and chase us around when we miss a payment.
NightTrainthedark
Reply #20 Friday, April 11, 2008 6:04 AM
Wagon trains need a comeback dontcha think?
Reply #20 Friday, April 11, 2008 6:04 AM
we should all just revolt and teach our kids at home and all buy mobile homes.
Wagon trains need a comeback dontcha think?
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Reply #1 Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:47 AM
Oh..........Kay.......
And they all moved away from him on the Group W bench there until he said "and creatin' a disturbance..." ...