pnh102
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Re: O RLY?
said by kapil  :...ask anyone who lived in USSR....no choice, high prices. They had DSL in the USSR?
Heck, did most of the people in the USSR even have access to landline phone service at all?
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kapil
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join:2000-04-26
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| said by pnh102 :They had DSL in the USSR? Heck, did most of the people in the USSR even have access to landline phone service at all? No...but they did have lots of government sanctioned and owned monopolies. Which resulted in zero choice for the consumer.
You want a car? Call The Car Company. You want Bread, call The Bread Company. Just like now, in the U.S., you want DSL, call AT&T (or Verizon, depending on who owns copper in your neck of the woods)
Don't you see? lack of government oversight has landed us in such a swamp that we will be lucky if we escape it....the mortgage mess from lack of oversight of banks is not that much different from the lack of competition in the communications field due to lack of oversight of telcos.
This hands-off policy of the last 7-8 years has bankrupted this country and lined the pockets of the very few at the top.
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Austinloop
join:2001-08-19
Austin, TX
| I would take exception to your assumption that the lack of oversight of banks is the cause of the mortgage mess. The blame needs to be shared with those people that took out mortgages that they knew would be a problem for them to repay when the interest rate changed. You have just as much greed from the individual buyers, in some cases, as you do from the banks. |
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kapil
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join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL
| said by Austinloop :I would take exception to your assumption that the lack of oversight of banks is the cause of the mortgage mess. The blame needs to be shared with those people that took out mortgages that they knew would be a problem for them to repay when the interest rate changed. You have just as much greed from the individual buyers, in some cases, as you do from the banks. Yes, nothing can substitute personal responsibility. Individual...and at the corporate level.
A LOT of people knew they were taking advantage of system with holes in it.....but a lot of innocent homeowners got taken for a ride. There are no innocent mortgage brokers or real estate brokers, or lender, or appraisers. And I work in that industry.
Realtors have a fiduciary and ethical responsibility to act in the best interest of their clients. Mortgage brokers aren't fiduciary, but to have a legal mandate to do things legally and ethically. Appraisers are also ethically and legally bound to do things right...lenders have more laws that bind them.
But everyone let greed take over. Lot of that going around these part 8 years.
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Austinloop
join:2001-08-19
Austin, TX
1 edit | Isn't ethics and the entire real estate industry, like used car sales, an oxymoron??
And the above observation was made prior to the past 7 years. |
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pnh102
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I blame the banks as much as I blame the borrowers.
It isn't like the banks don't have tools with which they can verify peoples' credit. The banks knew full well that these borrowers were in no position to pay these loans back once the rates re-adjusted but chose to lend the money anyway.
Any "bailout" will simply enrich these banks at the expense of the taxpayers, and only serve to encourage more bad loans.
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kcir
join:2005-07-30
Butner, NC | reply to kapil
To make matters worse executives of this failing companies are leaving with severance packages in the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars. WTF is the only comment I can come up with. |
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