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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 04:35 PM) Who's going to determine that? And how many people would use the "oh the predatory lending got me! I was dooped! I knew I only made 1500 a month but that 3200 mortgage payment seemed totally doable in 5 years into the future!" Who cares if it gets the economy functional again and gets people working?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 04:27 PM) Well, you are obviously a dumbass since you didn't read my part about having a program for people just like you mentioned. edit: if you are asking me personally I can go about 2 years, maybe a little more. I planned ahead. In fact, I was out of work for almost 18 months and never missed a payment, because I planned ahead. Why am I forced to subsidize YOUR mortgage with tax credits? Why won't that lazy 47% ever learn to take responsibility and start being makers, not takers!

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 04:27 PM) Well, you are obviously a dumbass since you didn't read my part about having a program for people just like you mentioned. You're right, I focused on your deflection that allows you to dismiss the entire idea as helping "dumbasses" (unlike the banks?!).

It accomplishes what all trolling accomplishes, which is making asses out of the targets.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 03:00 PM) I have zero desire for my tax dollars to be used to help some dumbass that bought 4x the house they could afford just because times were 'good'. And simply being underwater doesn't mean you need any 'adjustments'. If you can still make the payments, then just too damn bad that your house isn't worth what it was. If you lost your job and need help, sure, come up with a program for that. Otherwise I don't want to pay YOUR mortgage, just like I don't want to pay your student loans either. How long could you afford your reasonably priced house if you lost your job for 2-4 years starting today? Would you just be another "dumbass?" Should we keep subsidizing your mortgage with the tax credit? I don't want my tax dollars to pay for YOUR mortgage!

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 02:29 PM) Too bad that money goes to the banks, not the citizens. Exactly. Instead of giving the banks more money by buying mortgage-backed securities, just go out and cover some damn mortgages directly.

Rahm Emmanuel with unchecked power, regardless of the situation (not specifically talking schools here), is a disaster waiting to happen.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 03:01 PM) Agreed, so instead of throwing money at the status quo, why not throw the money at creating more opportunities. Ditto with the schools. Instead of throwing money at the schools, throw it into the communities. Shoot, at this point i'm almost ready to pay those kids to show up and get decent grades. You graduate you get a free ride to a community college. Something along those lines. Hopefully a good percentage of those students would take that deal and at least for some generations there'd be some movement up in society. I'm all for ending QE3 and sending checks directly from the Fed to citizens.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 12:42 PM) Anyone else think that given the 1 billion dollar deficit in the CPS budget that Rahm would just close the entire system and start up charter schools instead? Rehire the same teachers sans union, and then have complete control over everything. Probably would be best long term for the City. Semi-privatized authoritarian regime headed by Rahm Emmanuel would be the worst for everyone regardless of location or circumstance.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 11:44 AM) I don't agree with what he said about the teachers not caring about the kids learning at all...but I also believe that if they had gotten raises, they never would have went on strike for the other things, because they weren't the important factors of the strike...they were simply used as additional bargaining chips. the evaluation standards were a lot more important than the raises, imo. It's still a teacher-focused issue, though.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 12:13 PM) Yes but not Jews. According to the Old Testament they are the chosen people so I dont want to f*** with that! this post also literally made me lol

Real wages have been stagnant for decades. The middle class is shrinking and the wealth and income gaps are exploding, especially since the start of this recession. The problem isn't a "moocher" class of lazy poors. The opportunities to pull yourself out of poverty have been disappearing.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 12:26 PM) I think Romney scares anyone that isn't a complete GOP kool aid drinking nutbar. But it doesn't make me like Obama any more. this post made me literally lol

I guess you're right, funding for the CPS is completely static. My mistake.

No no no, his father was a hard-working man just struggling to get by and down on his luck. People like him deserve a helping hand in hard times, it's those other people, those welfare queens that are stealing our hard-earned money.

Money sitting in offshore Cayman Island and Swiss bank accounts could help solve a lot of funding issues.

In the United States of America, it is not a horrible argument.

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I don't understand your "shut up" idea here. I don't think working under the previous contract for the rest of the year was a realistic option (I may be wrong on that one) and the CPS proposal was 4 years. That's four years under a contract 90% of your membership doesn't want and it puts you right back into Presidential Election Season.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 18, 2012 -> 04:27 PM) But its easy to gloss over those and blame the teachers instead. To be fair, I've glossed over that as well because it's such a huge issue and "CPS funding" is only a very, very narrow subset of the problem.

Mitt Romney's courageous foreign policy: Will the exact specifics of this video matter in 50 days or whatever it is? No, probably not for most people who might still be convinced to vote for either candidate. Typically, these "swing" voters are low-information voters anyway, so they're not likely to sit down and read some blogs about this and sure as hell aren't going to watch the full hour long video. But it's yet another bad week of news for Romney where he's on the defensive, where he has to try to spin his statements and is attacked by pundits and politicians both left and right. His campaign is one misstep after another at this point. Every day from here on out is incredibly important for him to start to chip into Obama's EC vote lead, and every day he's addressing this or the Libya comments or anything else besides "Obama has done a bad job" is a lost opportunity.

Buried under the whole "there's no money!" claim is a whole lot of larger taxation and wealth/income equality issues.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 18, 2012 -> 04:12 PM) So why then was anything Romney said so bad? He told the truth! Oh my God, never do that! Well there was a lot of dumb, not-true and silly stuff he said aside from what I find morally repugnant.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 18, 2012 -> 11:24 AM) I can't imagine how the referees could want so much money that this is worth it to the league. It's about $6k per team per game to fund their pension according to whoever I was just listening to on ESPN XM radio.