Obama Administration To Shame Lenders That Don't Offer To Modify Mortgages

Whining?! That's the new strategy? We thought we elected a warrior but instead we got a wimp!!



This is what's going to happen: The banks will be called out b/c they are not restructuring the mortgages of people who never should have taken out these loans to begin with and then the market is going to respond by RIGHTFULLY rewarding those banks. Their stocks will go up and they will laugh at those who think they should be "shamed" into restructuring those bad loans.



If the administration wants to actually do something then it has to use the power of legislation. It's the only power they have.



Shame doesn't exist anymore. Not on Wall St. and not on Main St. Main Street shamefully took out loans they couldn't afford and Wall St. shamefully took advantage of people who would never have been able to understand the terms of the loans they were offering.



Thankfully, anarchy hasn't hit yet, so the rule of law is the only way to get something done.

Maybe next time we'll elect someone who has some teeth (That goes 2X for the Congress).
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Israel Readying New Cutting-Edge Arms To Meet Iran Challenge

I'm sorry but the Gaza invasion was VERY long overdue. The citizens of Sderot had been subjected to rocket attacks for....not days....no­t weeks or months but YEARS! Would you be OK with the US government sitting back for years as US citizens took hit after hit with civilians getting killed? Israel unilaterally pulled out of Gaza and Hamas decided to use that territory as a base for their killing machine. They could have taken a different route and decided to build a country. It was their choice. Israel had already proven that it had NO interest in Gaza. Why don't you ask how come the other Arab counties wouldn't help the Palestinians get their country off the ground! They simply USE the Palestinians to take away any focus on their own corrupt oligarchs, monarchs, dictators.­...

The Gaza operation was, sadly, justified.
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I take it you've never even taken a rudimentary class on the Middle East.

Israel gave up the Sinai (twice actually '56 & '78). Taba to Egypt in '89. They gave up territory to Jordan ('94). They withdrew from Lebanon (UN certified). They UNILATERALLY withdrew from Gaza, uprooting their own citizens in the process - while getting NOTHING in return.



To recap: Israel gives up territory while, AT BEST, they get a piece of paper with promise.



While Israel certainly doesn't have any love lost for the Palestinians, you're even wrong on your allegations of "no real interest". Israel has a keen interest that Palestinians have something of their own so that they will hopefully start concentrating on their own lives instead of just trying to destroy someone else's. Who do you think helped the Palestinians with all of the hot houses and other expensive investments after Israel's withdrawal from Gaza? Not their Arab brothers!! NOOOOOO. It was mainly from Israelis and Jews worldwide. Check it out!

What was the payback? The infrastructure was looted and destroyed in the first few weeks and then Hamas began using the territory to bomb Israeli civilians. They bombed Sderot for eight years until finally Israel had had enough and was forced to go after Hamas in Gaza.



P.S. When the operation was finished, they withdrew..­...again.
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"no recent history (1000 yrs) of war-like tendencies"????

Your lack of knowledge is boundless.

Does the Iran-Iraq war mean nothing to you?? It lasted only around eight years (1980-1988) so maybe you missed it (or weren't born yet). Although the war was started by Iraq, Iraq declared a cease fire in 1982 when they realized that they weren't getting anywhere. They suggested that they both send soldiers to fight Israel in the Lebanon war that began that year. In 1983 Iran saw an opening because of their overwhelming numerical superiority. They didn't care how many of their own soldiers would be killed. Eventually they thought they would be able to simply overrun Iraq. They stated "The Road to Jerusalem Goes through Karbala,". Don't you just love how even then they included Israel in their hatred!

In all over ONE MILLION soldiers dies on both sides with countless civilians. (FYI by comparison 80k deaths combined in ALL Arab/Israel wars!)

Every ask why so much attention is paid to this conflict and so many UN resolutions are on the books against Israel considering just how small the conflict is in the bigger scheme of the worlds other conflicts?!
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Bill Clinton To Speak To Democratic Senators About Health Bill

I sincerely hope that Pres. Clinton can convince these people to get this done. At least Clinton had the courage to get in front of the debate. He may have been criticized for not including Congress but he was better than Obama who hasn't taken the lead or gotten involved in the fight.

Either way, Congress has to realize that they lost the majority NOT because of Clinton's over-reaching or what I call his courage. They lost because of Congress's COWARDICE in not having the conviction of doing what needed to be done.

If hindsight is 20/20 then we must look at Dems vs. Repubs in Congress. Dems lost because they were seen as waffling and wavering even when they were on the right side of the general public on policy issues. They were not decisive! The Republicans, on the other hand, were on the opposite side of the general public on policy but they won elections in spite of that because they knew how to govern and get things done....even if they were the wrong things!!

Dems - go get a pair and do what you know needs to be done. If not, expect to lose and lose big. Again, it won't be because you tried to over-reach, i.e. courage. It'll be because of your cowardice!!
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