Comments on: The Tea Party Revolt and the Politics of Ignorance

By: Drmarcuswrose

Drmarcuswrose — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:16:05 +0000

I think there's a problem with people not giving others the credit they are due.

think the book would be an appropriate follow-up to Janet Porter's "Pink Slip" campaign from this past Winter. I hope you agree!

Here is a direct link to the sample I put together for your viewing: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/everything-congress-knows-about-the-constitution/12469949

By: theshark58

theshark58 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:14:26 +0000

I know this is outdated but I just wanted to throw this out there.

The Banks and financial Institutions got bail outs.done deal.

The entire real estate market is a mess because Congress DID NOT WANT TO REGULATE the industry back in 2004 and 2005.
Maxine Waters and the like said "desk top underwriting" and "access to the American dream" were reasons to REWARD Fannie Mae and Freddie MAc. All they did was PUSH AMERICA and the World Economy into this mess.

So don't believe that REPUBLICANS did not want to regulate the industry.
THE fact is DEMOCRATS accused REPUBLICANS and the REGULATOR of being racist.

The ONLY real fault for the REPUBLICANS is that they did not stand up for their beliefs.

So now they create a whole new SCAM industry...loan modifications....

How about this....

forget about tax payers cash...

Simply...

double the YEARS required to pay a mortgage.
If you pay $3,000 now, you pay $1500.
If you are 3 payments or more behind, require the payment as to be made over one year.

NO modification fees, no lawyers, just paperwork.

Now..if you are underwater because you don't have a job, then any modification won't help you.

I don't want to hear about investors, lawsuits, banking laws...blah blah blah...
To hell with the investors...Take a few MILLION (not BILLIONS) and fight the investor lawsuits. There are no gaurantees in investing.

By: theshark58

theshark58 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:14:26 +0000

By: Henny

Henny — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:47:12 +0000

Okay, so if you don't want more spending, that's fine!!!! Let everyone whose loan is unaffordable foreclose!!! Let the banks just all collapse and not get any bailout money anymore!!!!! Then let's just wait and see what happens to the economy!!!! Let's just let the cookies crumble!!!!!

By: Henny

Henny — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:47:12 +0000

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:28:35 +0000

You don't understand Mary, we can't afford it. If I loose my job and can't pay my bills, I'll move to where the jobs are. Not sit at home crying.
Thanks
Jack

Don't raise taxes!

By: Maj. Patriot

Maj. Patriot — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:19:23 +0000

Kane has missed the point or is trying to spin the “Tea Party” purpose as misguided ignorance.The powder keg which you now sit upon ma'am is the beginning much as the original “Tea Party”.We are tired of being over taxed.We protest liberal fascism and the power grabbing failed solutions to problems they the congress have created.
You neglect to mention that it was Federal regulations to make high risk loans to people who could not afford them i.e. Fanny Mae and Mac. and the miss-management by people like Barney Frank and many others.
Perhaps we seem scattered in our purpose because they have provided so many reasons to be in open revolt.

By: J Johnson

J Johnson — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:49:10 +0000

The writer falsely believes she's superior to “Joe Plumber” types and accuses the “Tea Party folks” of not reading the bailout plan. Well, surprise surprise! As it turns out, neither have most members of congress nor has the writer who admits to getting her information by spending a week “talking to housing advocates and experts.” The “foreclosure mess” as she calls it, has become a government imposed burden on taxpayers. That's indisputable. Ms. Kane clearly doesn't understand the economics of printing billions upon billions of dollars to pay for toxic bank-assets and the hyperinflation that will inevitably result. I have more respect for the average American protesters and find Ms. Kane to be appallingly ignorant.

By: Realistic

Realistic — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:40:39 +0000

I really cannot believe that any American would allow a government body to hold more power than the individual. All the plans that have been put in place (Tarp, Mortgage relief, border security) are all just a facade. This guy is going to bankrupt America. If you own a home or any other real property, get ready to have eminent domain come into effect. halthcare reform, Didn't Hillary try that…Oh well. Barack is a God….These people in washington deserve to serve prison sentences for the Ponzi scheme they have committed against the American Taxpayer…

By: godhelpus

godhelpus — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:06:43 +0000

So, those of us who didn't go trying to follow the Joneses (who are greatly responsible for creating this housing market crisis and, in my opinion, the near depression we are in), are the “politics of ignorance?” I agree whoever retitled this “politics of arragonce” on that of the writer. Who, probably had something to do with this great mess as a “mortgage modifier.” Please. We are going to be socialist; there is no doubt. I chose to live “within my means.” I SHOULD be given the REWARD. Damn, I knew I should have purchased that million dollar house when they told me I could. If only I had known Obama and the rest of the hard working American people will pay for it later! But then, I had no idea the American people would vote in such a screwed up party.