foreclosures - ACTION - Command Center2024-03-29T13:02:21Zhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/foreclosuresRajjpuut's Folly: Must You Change the Nation's Direction?https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuut-s-folly-must-you-change-the-nation-s-direction2011-12-17T15:30:00.000Z2011-12-17T15:30:00.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#800000;" class="font-size-5"><b>Statistical Picture Much Grimmer</b></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#800000;" class="font-size-5"><b>Than Average American Appreciates</b></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#800000;" class="font-size-5"><b> <span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-3">Every body knows the economy is bad, but a look at today's statistics paints a far more sobering picture than you probably realize . . . .</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;" class="font-size-3"><b>The Definitely BAD NEWS</b><b>: </b></span></p><p><span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-3"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-3"><b>1. </b> <b> </b><b>U.S. national debt <i>increase</i> averaged</b> <a title="more than 4 billion dollars per day" href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-has-now-increased-debt-more-all-presidents-george-washington-through-george-hw" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><b>$4+</b></span></a> <b>Billion <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em>daily</em></span> during President Obama’s first three years. <u>IF the government stopped spending and began repaying</u> immediately @ $1-per-second; it would need</b> <a title="over 440,000 years" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/17-national-debt-statistics-which-prove-that-we-have-sold-our-children-and-grandchildren-into-perpetual-debt-slavery" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><b>479,000+ years</b></span></a><b>** eliminating current debt . . . 2011’s budget deficit of</b> <a title="nearly 1.3 trillion dollars" href="http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201110141417dowjonesdjonline000481&title=us-runs-1299-trillion-budget-deficit-in-fiscal-2011" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><b>$1.29</b></span></a> <b>TRillion was the third consecutive year spending deficits exceeded $1 TRillion.</b></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-3"><b>2. </b> <b><i>19% of all American men 25-34 years old now live with their parents.</i></b><b> 14% of Americans receive food stamps including 25% of American children. </b> <a title="37 percent" href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/11301457/2/us-wealth-gap-between-young-and-old-is-widest-ever.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><b>37</b></span></a><b>% of all U.S. households led by someone 35 or under have a net worth of $0.00, or less;</b> <a title="46 percent" href="http://www.ebri.org/pdf/surveys/rcs/2011/FS2_RCS11_Prepare_FINAL1.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><b>46%</b></span></a> <b>of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement;</b> <a title="29 percent" href="http://www.ebri.org/pdf/surveys/rcs/2011/FS2_RCS11_Prepare_FINAL1.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><b>29%</b></span></a> <b>of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved. </b></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-3"><b>3. </b> <b>For every dollar China spends on American goods, we spend $4 on Chinese products; China just slapped a new 22% tax on all U.S. products (in a phrase: China “owns our Treasury Department”).</b></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-3"><b>4. </b> <b>Without recent changes defining “Americans wanting jobs” today’s unemployment would be</b> <a title="11 percent" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/wonkbook-the-real-unemployment-rate-is-11-percent/2011/12/12/gIQAuctPpO_blog.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><b>11%</b></span></a><b>. All Americans out of work, or under-employed (Bureau of Labor’s “SGS Alternate employment” while U-6 unemployment is 15.3%) is now 22+%. </b> <a title="77 percent" href="http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/11/07/7-in-10-blame-economy-for-hiring-freeze" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><b>74%</b></span></a> <b>of all U.S. small businesses do not plan to hire new workers in 2012, citing bad economic times; increased government regulations and health care uncertainties.</b></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-3"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="color:#008000;" class="font-size-3"><b>MIXED News:</b></span></p><p><span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-3"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-3"><b>1. </b> <b> New home construction is at an all-time low in 2011, but older home prices now aren't dropping nearly so fast. </b></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-3"><b>2. </b> <strong>B</strong><b>ecause of foreclosure sales: the <i>median</i> price of a home in Detroit is now</b> <a title="just $6000" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/detroit-is-in-utter-shambles-and-the-state-should-take-it-over-immediately-2011-12" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><b>just $6,000</b></span></a><b>. Great for buyers.</b></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-3"><strong>3. </strong> <strong>More Americans will now be able to afford homes, but the home price slide will NOT stop. The government’s foreclosure regulations retard average home sale rates by 21 months or more. No real estate bottom in sight for three years.</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-3"><strong>Ya'all live long, strong and ornery,</strong></span></p><p><span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-3"><strong>Rajjpuut</strong></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#008000;" class="font-size-3"><strong>** </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;"><b>Note: math required is . . . 3,600 seconds per hour@ 24 hours per day = 86,400 seconds per day @ 365.25 days per year = 31,557,600 seconds per year over 479,000+ years = $15.125 TRillion national debt (as of today, 12/17/2011) paid off @$1 per second.</b></span></p></div>Rajjpuut's Folly: Bernanke's 'Quantitative Easing' Makes Dollar-Holders Very Uneasyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuuts-folly-bernankes2010-10-01T06:30:00.000Z2010-10-01T06:30:00.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><br /><p><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:8pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing"><font color="#800080">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing</font></a></span></b></p><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="center"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:14pt;"><strong><font size="5">Bernanke Makes Quantum Leap</font></strong></span></div><div style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="center"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:14pt;"><strong><font size="5">Backward with “Quantitative Easing”</font></strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><strong>Most of us have heard “never use an elephant gun when a fly-swatter will do” or similar sayings reminding us to balance problem-solving responses with problem severity. Our dear friend Ben Bernanke, however, is currently brandishing nuclear weapons where most might consider a teaspoonful of radioactive-dye sufficient. Perhaps one day soon Federal Reserve Chief Ben will be explaining to us how the “operation was a success, too bad the patient died.”</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><strong>The patient, as you know, is the United States economy. Dear Ben is so concerned about depressions lurking underneath his bedsprings that he multiplied the amount of circulating money in the country fifteen-fold between late 2008 and mid-2009. Thanks to Ben, technically speaking the present U.S. dollar bill is worth 6.7 cents of the 2008 dollar’s value. Nice job, Benny Boy!</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><strong>Of course, tradition is what Ben has been counting on. The dollar has been the international storehouse of value for over three-score years now and people, even astute foreign investors and governments, don’t adapt as quickly as they might to the shifting reality known as hyper-inflation. The only problem is that someone in China someday soon might notice that fiscal-emperor Ben is running around buck naked and charge him with indecently dipping of super-skinny value. We’re talking about QE which is short for “Quantitative Easing” which under present conditions might be considered using a nine-pound sledge hammer against the mosquito in your friend’s ear. Ah, me.</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><strong>The Fed Chief has a few problems in the economy to deal with: 1) jobs creation is worse than lackluster 2) homes are being foreclosed upon at a record rate well in excess of last year’s record rate 3) home prices are artificially high and threatening to plummet at the first wave of panic selling 4) the incredible size ($114 TRillion) of the UNfunded liabilites the government’s responsible for 5) severe recent increases in deficit and National Debt 6) the inflationary weight of all the money he printed just a few months back 7) a record setting run of bank failures and 8) most crucially, his normal tool for controlling the economy (interest rate variation) is largely denied him because he doesn’t want to discourage credit by raising rates and the present rates are so low that further lowering would be all but useless . . . so now he pulls quantative easing (QE) out of his quiver, Gentle Ben does . . . .</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><strong>Just in case the term “quantitative easing” is unfamiliar to you . . . It’s sometimes known as “monetizing the debt.” You owe $95,000 to banks + a $325,000 mortgage debt, so Ben astutely gives you $420,000 monetizing your debt . . . sound fishy? It is. If you think of printing presses initiating a process of taking a perfectly useful product (paper) and making it valueless except for papering walls and use in outhouses . . . was that harsh . . . in any case, QE is the process of allowing banks to (effectively) print air-money just because, well because, they feel like it. This is pretty much the bank stupidity, now encouraged-earlier discouraged by the Federal Reserve, which exacerbated the meltdown we’ve suffered from over the last three plus years.</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><strong>Think about it, since we’ve had a record series of bank failures due to forced mortgage-lending at less than 3% down** payments (usually 0%) mandated by federal law (CRA ’77 and three Bill Clinton legislative expansions + two Clinton regulatory expansions of CRA ’77 and the deliberate abetting of such stupid loans from ACORN seeking home loans for . . . .</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:-.25in;margin:0in 0in 0pt .5in;"><span><strong>1. The unemployed</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:-.25in;margin:0in 0in 0pt .5in;"><span><strong>2. Those with bad credit</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:-.25in;margin:0in 0in 0pt .5in;"><span><strong>3. Those with no rental history</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:-.25in;margin:0in 0in 0pt .5in;"><span><strong>4. Those whose only “income” is food stamps</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:-.25in;margin:0in 0in 0pt .5in;"><span><strong>5. Others on welfare</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:-.25in;margin:0in 0in 0pt .5in;"><span><strong>6. Illegal aliens</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:-.25in;margin:0in 0in 0pt .5in;"><span><strong>7. Those fitting all of the above categories</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:-.25in;margin:0in 0in 10pt .5in;"><span><strong>8. All given loans under duress by shakedowns from ACORN lawyer Barack Obama and others of his community organizing ilk . . . .</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.25in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.25in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><strong>And since ACORN discovered shortly after Clinton’s ’98 steroid-version of CRA ’77 that it was almost as easy getting a dirt-poor person a loan for a $450,000 home as it previously had been for a home of $120-$150,000 . . . while banks were lumping all these loans together for profitable actions to intensify the meltdown that the sub-prime loan crisis itself was bringing our way . . . . and here Benny-Boy is setting us up again . . . . you get the picture, once again the fox in the henhouse is being given a cleaver and night-vision goggles. So, who exactly might be negatively impacted by QE? Anyone who holds or relies on the dollar. No, no, NOT just the Chinese, Americans too, especially Americans!</strong></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><strong>Once he’d already gone loco with the money printing presses, the process of “Quantative Easing” should be the last and least used of the armaments available to a Fed Chief. Big Ben, up to now has been imitating Japan during their lost (dozen) -economy years in the late 80’s and 90’s. Now thanks to employing QE to enlarge the bankers’ power, Ben may well have the ability to get America role-playing the Weimar Republic that brought Germany 100,000,000,000% inflation and made Adolf Hitler look like an inspiring political choice. God bless you, Ben, you’re a madman.</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><strong>Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"><strong>Rajjpuut</strong></span></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"></div><p><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:10pt;"><strong>** such loans were reserved for the highest quality veterans’ credit in 1975 when they amounted to 1/404 of all home loans; by 2005 they amounted to 34/100 of all home loans</strong></span></p><br /></div>Rajjpuut’s Folly: To Double-Dip or Not to Double-Dip, ‘tis No Longer a Questionhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuuts-folly-to-doubledip2010-08-24T18:00:00.000Z2010-08-24T18:00:00.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000"><br /></font></span></b><p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:18pt;">Double-Dip Recession</span></b></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:18pt;">Courtesy of Obama, Soon Official</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000">What happens when you combine gross INcompetence with hatred of capitalism and a vow to make a “fundamental transformation of America” (along Marxist lines): double-dip recession, that’s what! Mr. Obama has now officially made himself into the worst president in the history of the nation by damaging our economy and our way of life (via unending attacks upon the U.S. Constitution) in the shortest possible time frame (roughly 19 months). Short of turning our own nukes on us, how much harm can one man do?</font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000">Item: In one law, Obamacare, he created 388 new government agencies (almost ten times the output of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 12+ years in office.</font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000">Item: Calling himself a friend of business and the “Jobs President,” Obama forced through a $787 Billion job stimulus bill in February, 2009, that America didn’t want, claiming that when it was passed unemployment would not go above 8%. That figure shot to 10% and has been stuck at 9.5% in recent months. Our “Bailout President” has certainly disproven dramatically any claim to being the “Jobs President.”</font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000">Item: 27 percent drop in existing home sales on top of our other woes</font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000">Item: Home foreclosures have multiplied 10-fold over the last three years</font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000">Item: He is plotting to raise taxes in January, by NOT extending the Bush tax cuts now in place. If there is one item that all economists, even the most lost Keynesian economics professors, agree upon it is this . . . thou shalt NOT raise taxes in the midst of a recession. Of course, raising taxes in the middle of a <em>double-dip</em> recession is the ultimate government-interference sin.</font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;background:#FFFFFF;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;">Item: House Republican leader John Boehner, Tuesday, urged Obama to immediately support an extension of tax cuts and to fire key economic advisers, arguing that more than a year of "government as community organizer" has failed to revive the economy. Thus far Obama, now on vacation again (in Martha’s Vineyard this time) and his adminstration have not deigned to reply.</span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000">Item: Earlier this week, Treasury Secretary Timoth Geithner said that the George W. Bush law (originally pushed by Republicans in January, 2005, and finally in watered down form) passed in July, 2007 saved the economy from a much more severe recession than we’ve so far had and that without it home prices would have plummeted.</font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000">Item: Thanks to five progressive mortgage guarantee bills culminating in the three passed by Bill Clinton the statistic that only one in every 404 American home loans was made with 3% or less down payment, had changed to roughly one in three loans by 2005 were questionable loans forced upon lenders by government regulations. ACORN has been pursuing those loans for 33 years and Obama worked as an ACORN lawyer shaking-down lenders to make them follow the ignorant federal requirements so that people without ID, without jobs, without rental history, without decent credit ratings, with only food stamps to show as “income,” on welfare, and even illegal aliens could own $400,000 homes.</font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000">Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,</font></span></b></p><p style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font color="#000000">Rajjpuut</font></span></b></p></div>