OT-Taxing the rich

I see you have maintained your selective editing skills. I especially like the way you pluck out of context and reassemble words and phrases, the mark of a true craftsman. Well done! Have a great life Ed!

If I left your entire spew intact, it would just be more of the same.

As for what I said that you used as an excuse for your rant, that is 100% of it. Every word. It was exactly two sentences. Then you went nuts.

Tom, we'd all be happier if you just plonked him and forgot him.

-- Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. -- Peter Minard

Spoken like a true troll wondering why it is always so quiet in these groups, for him.

Need some links to this same comment to a few hundred different posters?

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Tom, we'd all be happier if you just plonked him and forgot him.

Who's "we," Larry? You and the other cullers who think it's a good idea to threaten elected officials with guns?

Onward and upward! Did I send you the link to my new website?

Greed and stupidity go hand in hand. What would happen to these clowns in other countries? Forget the wrist slapping, dust off "Old Sparky" and just give then a LITTLE jolt!

Not likley, after the bank forcloses and sells a home at a short sale they very often sue the former homeowner to recover any loss they suffered at the short sale. Typicaly the bank will sue just before the statutes of limitations voids the debt. They are giving people time to accumulate assets they will try to seize. Your gonna see a huge increase in these type of suits in 3 to 7 years depending on which state the debt is owed. Also a lot of that is being sold to collection angencies who sue at a later date. The scam never ends.

Best Regards Tom.

Gunner Asch on Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:08:43 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Bunch of the Judges in Florida, are just flat slapping the Banks down, and awarding title free and clear to the home owner.

quote "Angry and exasperated by faulty foreclosure documents, judges throughout Florida are hitting back by increasingly dismissing cases and boldly accusing lawyers of "fraud upon the court." " unquote.

Ongoing scrutiny by the FBI, the Florida attorney general, the Florida Bar, the media and defense attorneys has uncovered countless examples of forged signatures, post-dated documents, robo-signing and lost paperwork."

Oops.

tschus pyotr

"azotic" on Sun, 3 Apr 2011 21:51:59 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Right up until the judge holds the bank/collection agency in contempt, and voids the whole she-bang.

That has happened in of all places Kalifornia.

Best Regards Tom.

Perhaps someone (Ed's mafia friends?) could send their boys downtown to knock off the dealers and steal their stash, then "invest" all of it into the bankers in questions' veins. 3 birds with one stone, wot? Dealers, badassbankers, and drugs all off the streets at once.

Works for me.

-- Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. -- Peter Minard

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-- Unka George (George McDuffee) .............................. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author. The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).

Too bad that the era of consequences is long past. Oh well. I'm glad I'm old and won't live to see the new era of consequences...and bible thumpers think Sodom and Gomorrah were bad.

China would line them up and shoot them.

That's interesting Tom.

The Bush administration took an imperialist stance, rooted in delusions of American exceptionalism. IOW, America decided to view itself as Charlie Sheen.

Because of America's tiger blood and Adonis DNA, the U.S. was too special to be understood by any normal country, so we decided to do strafing runs in our underwear before we had our first cup of coffee.

Karl Rove's secretive, post-reality, ideological hubris resulted in a credibility gap that the American political system has yet to recover from.

Dick Cheney's personal cornered-rat paranoia resulted in policies that ushered in a preemptive war on a sovereign nation -- and ever since, we are a nation that debates the merits of torture and lives in fear.

Neoconservative fiscal policies ushered in the fastest, most balls-to-the-wall economic calamities that have ever happened in America. American life, as a result, took on the morose character of the Bush administration: We became isolated, paranoid and morally bankrupt and ultimately broke -- a dry-drunk nation, in other words, that had totaled its car and lost all daddy's money.

The carnage we've been digging out from under for the last couple of years looks seriously like consequences to me.

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It all depends on who pays the consequences.

It does not appear for the most part that the people/organizations that "caused" the problems are paying the price, or indeed anything. From the viewpoint of America's "rich and useless," they have never had it so good. To be sure there were a few sacrificial scapegoats such as GMC, and Madoff, but the vast majority of people accountable are crying all the way to the bank, while the people they screwed over in the first place, take it in the shorts again and again.

-- Unka George (George McDuffee) .............................. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author. The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).

Not really. Consequences are consequences.

OK, but Tom siad we were living in an era without consequences. You couldn't believe that and have a pulse at the same time.

It could be worse and might be. Here is an analysis of the HR 4529, known to the public as the Republican budget that Congress will shortly adopt.

And then charge the family for the cartridge. My family would gladly buy a whole box sometimes!