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In reply to the discussion: 'Eminent Domain for the People' Leaves Wall Street Furious [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)83. It's always a drag when thieves are involved, everyone may lose. Pensioners may get less, but
in the current scenario they may get nothing. 10 million families across the country have taken a huge hit from foreclosures, with some estimates even higher, millions upon millions of people have lost jobs and careers and retirements, and this is just a small part of that.
The only ones who seem to be sitting phat on all of it are the thieving banks and mortgage makers that caused the current financial crisis in the first place, with no way to recover after 30 years of corporations ridding us of jobs by sending them overseas and cutting the heart out of the ability to create wealth by the middle-class.
Current value is so flippin' bogus anyway. How much value is there as banks withhold 7 million reos from the market to manipulate the prices of the remaining upward, with the government putting $85 billion a month into this continuing Ponzi scheme while letting infrastructure crumble, 50 million remain on food stamps, student loans that will never be paid off languish, schools close and teachers sent home...Detroit is going bankrupt, and part of that is because they owe the sellers of creative derivatives their money, and the losers will be the pensioners from the city.
Pensioners, and everyone else, are losing as we move forward as a poorer country, so they aren't a class unto themselves. At least this way there might be a chance for a few home owners to recover a bit as well, as opposed to none.
I agree with you, but the banks need to work with them or be taken out of the picture.
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The banks were essentially clearcutting whern they made loans that were unaffordable
Skink
Aug 2013
#4
Straw Man. Also, prudent fund managers are more than aware of the current risk factors
Ikonoklast
Aug 2013
#72
What would be really wild is for Detroit to declare eminent domain over it's distressed areas...
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2013
#10
Homesteading requires you buy the property to live on it as your primary residence....
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2013
#25
Eminent domain can allow the city a wide lattitude to seize the property....
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2013
#37
I actually have been looking at property in Detroit as an investment the last few weeks
Lee-Lee
Aug 2013
#19
I don't even think they'd need to used eminent domain. They could probably seize a lot ...
JVS
Aug 2013
#52
"Make it so banks are not legally allowed to give out such unstable loans"
SomethingFishy
Aug 2013
#21
"We're better off. Even if it doesn't feel like that right now. Our future is better off."
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2013
#31
If Obama gets rid of Fannie and Freddie and someone wants to take a loan from this area
dkf
Aug 2013
#63
"will any lenders be willing to make loans in these cities going forward,". Good. Fuck 'em.
jtuck004
Aug 2013
#38
Guess what? People have always had trouble leaving the plantation - this is nothing new.
jtuck004
Aug 2013
#40
It's always a drag when thieves are involved, everyone may lose. Pensioners may get less, but
jtuck004
Aug 2013
#83
Well this is another mortgage maker with a guaranteed profit through government seizure.
dkf
Aug 2013
#84
The real estate market is recovering. This is exactly the type of action that will hit it.
dkf
Aug 2013
#87
Without the 85 billion the government is throwing in, which is primarly bolstering
jtuck004
Aug 2013
#92
Maybe our credit unions will make the loans. We should nationalize the big banks.
rhett o rick
Aug 2013
#81
If that's a small credit union more specific to that area you've just damaged them significantly.
dkf
Aug 2013
#82
Well, until this is cleared up I wonder who's going to be making loans in Richmond?
Yo_Mama
Aug 2013
#61