[grassland]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('burtonridr', 'T')his is why I just bought a small 23 ft motorhome.

I loose my job, I send in the keys to the bank, they foreclose on my house, we live in the motorhome with 0 bills.

Just need a storage unit or something to house all our food supplies....

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'W')hen I was a boy, my mother always warned me about "Gypsies" who might steal me away. Of course in the pre WWII Europe that my grandmother came from, Gypsies were real. Homeless displaced people pushed out of Russia, Germany, Romania, Hungary. My own grandparents WERE Gypsies.

In those days, the gypsies travelled with wagons drawn by oxen, now todays gypsies are living in SUVs and RVs. Displaced out of their economies as the economy went south. Reduced to crime, to kidnapping, to prostitution, whatever means to survive.

The social welfare net is broken. Old or young, if you do not have a means to provide for yourself now you are human waste, you are on your way to the Human Waste Recycling Plant in San Antonio. Too many losers in the game now, and the Rich flicked the switch. In America, we will learn now what the Pogroms were all about, what the Holocaust was all about. Those in power steal the lives of the poor they sucked the wealth out of. They CONSUME them.

Never Again? I don't think so.

Reverse Engineer

[grassland]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'W')hen I was a boy, my mother always warned me about "Gypsies" who might steal me away. Of course in the pre WWII Europe that my grandmother came from, Gypsies were real. Homeless displaced people pushed out of Russia, Germany, Romania, Hungary. My own grandparents WERE Gypsies.

In those days, the gypsies travelled with wagons drawn by oxen, now todays gypsies are living in SUVs and RVs. Displaced out of their economies as the economy went south. Reduced to crime, to kidnapping, to prostitution, whatever means to survive.

The social welfare net is broken. Old or young, if you do not have a means to provide for yourself now you are human waste, you are on your way to the Human Waste Recycling Plant in San Antonio. Too many losers in the game now, and the Rich flicked the switch. In America, we will learn now what the Pogroms were all about, what the Holocaust was all about. Those in power steal the lives of the poor they sucked the wealth out of. They CONSUME them.

Never Again? I don't think so.

Reverse Engineer

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cube', 'I')f you don't mind me asking, what was your major when you went college?
I know for sure it wasn't engineering!

Let me guess you must of majored in theatrical performance?
Your writing style is.......lets just say very "unconventional" considering this is an internet message board.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('grassland', '
')My friend, in a few months the "RICH" will have the same amount of money as the poor.
Do you understand our dollar is crashing? who cars if you have 2 million pieces of newspaper or 10,000 everyone is poor.

Total collapse.

It will get to the point that people will eat their dead family members.

That is when it is bad., it is nothing yet.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '
')
My original major was Biochemistry. I minored in Mathematics. I ended up with two majors because I read a lot of Psycholgy on my own time and took the GRE in that subject.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', 'A')re you saying that you got a good score on the GRE and your university then granted you a second major in psychology?

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', 'A')re you saying that you got a good score on the GRE and your university then granted you a second major in psychology?

[Nickel]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', '&')lt;i>What is this term middle class homeless? If you are living in your car, you are NOT middle class, you are homeless. <b>Time to recognize there are only two classes of people; those that stole the wealth of America and those that got fleeced.</b></i>

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('CarlosFerreira', 'I')t hurts to see people like that. And, of course, these people have no basic healthcare, no safety, nothing.

[mattduke]

Look what the government/bankers have done to us.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/ ... 8I20081112

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'L')ook what the government/bankers have done to us.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('VMarcHart', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'L')ook what the government/bankers have done to us.

[Northern_Pike]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')VMarcHartLess...........

[Roy]

Bankers and other mortgage slime were at least partially responsible.

For example, when my wife and I were looking to buy here in NC in 2006, we were given a limit of $350k. At the time I was unemployed and my wife self-employed. That limit was arrived at by looking at her earnings for one year.

Contrast that to our first mortgage in 1998 where we had to go back a number of years and a person had to be at a job, IIRC, at least two years to get a mortgage.

We ended up spending less than half that, at the mortgage agencies' displeasure. Fortunately for me my wife had the wisdom to listen to me and not demand a house closer to that limit even though at the time she was a little skeptical of my doomer views.

But I, being a member here for two years at that time, had an idea of what was coming and that a $2500/month house note was probably not a good idea no matter what our combined income was in 2005.

Some people weren't aware and their eyes got bigger than their wallets. They fell for "the value will go up every year" and "you just can't lose on this deal". Trusting these so called experts.

Why on earth would banksters offer that kind of money to people who in all likelihood would have been another foreclosure statistic if they had agreed?

Greed. Pure unadulterated greed. Light sweet greed. We were awash in it. They made their money up front.

Perhaps some heavy sour common sense will come out of all this mess.

Thanks PO.com. You've (at least helped) saved my ass more than once.

So I continue reading and learning from the many knowledgeable posters here.

[Roy]

I had to add this; It just appeared in my inbox and really struck a chord.
Source
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here are over 42 million American adults, 20 percent of whom hold high school diplomas, who cannot read, as well as the 50 million who read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level. Nearly a third of the nation's population is illiterate or barely literate. And their numbers are growing by an estimated 2 million a year. But even those who are supposedly literate retreat in huge numbers into this image-based existence. A third of high school graduates, along with 42 percent of college graduates, never read a book after they finish school. Eighty percent of the families in the United States last year did not buy a book.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he illiterate and semi-literate, once the campaigns are over, remain powerless. They still cannot protect their children from dysfunctional public schools. They still cannot understand predatory loan deals, the intricacies of mortgage papers, credit card agreements and equity lines of credit that drive them into foreclosures and bankruptcies. They still struggle with the most basic chores of daily life from reading instructions on medicine bottles to filling out bank forms, car loan documents and unemployment benefit and insurance papers. They watch helplessly and without comprehension as hundreds of thousands of jobs are shed. They are hostages to brands. Brands come with images and slogans. Images and slogans are all they understand. Many eat at fast food restaurants not only because it is cheap but because they can order from pictures rather than menus. And those who serve them, also semi-literate or illiterate, punch in orders on cash registers whose keys are marked with symbols and pictures. This is our brave new world.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here are over 42 million American adults, 20 percent of whom hold high school diplomas, who cannot read, as well as the 50 million who read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level. Nearly a third of the nation's population is illiterate or barely literate. And their numbers are growing by an estimated 2 million a year. But even those who are supposedly literate retreat in huge numbers into this image-based existence. A third of high school graduates, along with 42 percent of college graduates, never read a book after they finish school. Eighty percent of the families in the United States last year did not buy a book.

[hermit]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'L')ook what the government/bankers have done to us. link

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Northern_Pike', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'V')MarcHartLess