Saturday, April 12, 2008

So Marshall, what should the government do?


So Mr. Ramsey, what EXACTLY should the government do about this problem? Who should the government help? The investors who made it possible for all of this to happen? The lenders would have never approved or offered these questionable loans if there had not been investors on Wall Street telling them they were going to purchase them (That is the dirty little secret of this mess: It is investor-driven, not lender-driven). The lenders? Many of them are now out of business and more are suffering huge losses and have substantially tightened their requirements for obtaining a mortgage. Homeowners? Why should someone who HAS paid his mortgage even when it might have been hard for him to do so see someone who is not making his payments get help with HIS tax dollars? You do know all of these homeowners who have ARMs signed disclosures at loan application AND closing telling them they were getting an ARM and what the terms were, don't you? Or should the government help people who bought investment properties in Florida and California, hoping to flip them and make huge profits. Should the government tinker with foreclosures? That would really help homeowners. Take away the ability of a lender to mitigate his loss when a borrower defaults and you will REALLY see some very high interest rates on a house, not to mention that lenders will require borrowers to pay MUCH more than they do now in terms of down payments.

So Mr. Ramsey, while you are being a smart-ass, what exactly should the government do?

Disclaimer: Mr. Ramsey is a friend of mine. Ya think he gets special treatment here? haha. ;-)

Posted by Kingfish at 10:41 AM

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Anonymous said...

Mr. Ramsey I would suspect gets well paid for the political tilts and slants he comes up with and like the governor doesn’t have to even acknowledge that you and/or your Blog even exist. If Mr. Ramsey is indeed a smart-ass as you seem to suggest and is also your so-called friend (one should carefully consider using extreme caution with the friend word i.e. guilty by association) you might have a conflict of interest? No dis intended.
Now if Mr. Ramsey was in a position of power and/or have friends having governmental power that they were/are willing to abuse and he should take offence at your referring to him as a smart-ass it might become problematic?
As to the housing fiasco it seems like a lot of people simply wanted the dream they were basically shut out of and may have had some hope until reality kicked in and they likely now realize it was only a vicious and sadistic wet dream gone bad? While the government may run to the rescue of some big business it doesn’t usually jump to the rescue of simple peons who bought something they couldn’t afford, even though the peons may have been baited by the greedy? The big money will likely get rescued or otherwise some relief but the poorest have already been weeded out and are gone?
In short the greed-monster at some point will not be able to sustain itself because it will have sucked its food source dry. The pay today for a large portion of the low end population is basically the same as it was 30 years ago yet the prices of homes automobiles and other necessities have increased astronomically i.e out of reach for those who at one time could have but now cannot. The greedy and their politicians are in control and they will at some point lose control?

April 12, 2008 at 11:58 PM

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