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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:34 pm    Post subject: Re: ****** THE BOOMING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

On Dec 21, 4:23 pm, George Grapman <sfgeo...@paccbell.net> wrote:
Quote:
SwampMidget wrote:
hillary's "magic" commodities trading:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/stor...

  And after millions of dollars and years of investigating what did Ken
Starr report about this?

i don't know for sure ...
you may want to check sandy berger's underpants for the facts.
or check out hillarys closet in the west wing for "misplaced" vince
foster files.
but a lock-step liberal lemming like yourself is not the least bit
interested in finding the facts. you're all about bumper sticker
slogans.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:59 pm    Post subject: Re: ****** THE BOOMING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

SwampMidget wrote:
Quote:
On Dec 21, 4:23 pm, George Grapman <sfgeo...@paccbell.net> wrote:
SwampMidget wrote:
hillary's "magic" commodities trading:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/stor...
And after millions of dollars and years of investigating what did Ken
Starr report about this?

i don't know for sure ...


You might want to read up on it, seems that he found no wrongdoing in
the matter by Bill or Hillary,
Quote:
you may want to check sandy berger's underpants for the facts.
or check out hillarys closet in the west wing for "misplaced" vince
foster files.
but a lock-step liberal lemming like yourself is not the least bit
interested in finding the facts.


Facts? You mean the facts after years of looking into Whitewater,
Filgate, Travelgate and Vince Foster all that Ken Starr came u8p with
was Clinton lying ab out consensual sex?
you're all about bumper sticker
Quote:
slogans.

As opposed to your fact filled reply.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:02 pm    Post subject: Re: ****** THE BOOMING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

On Dec 21, 4:10 pm, SwampMidget <webmas...@101click.com> wrote:
Quote:
In Clintons time the market went up and up, now in Bush time it at
best marks time.

ahhhh yes .... the good ol' days of the s&p 32 PE ratios, enron
bubble, and the dot com bust. great job, bill! wonder how the
economy would fare if NY was attacked under a socialist hillary
economy.

i'm sure she's a market prognosticating genius! after all, she did
turn a $1000 commodities account into $250,000 and then claimed she
couldn't even remember making the trades!!

So tell me, why hasn't the stock market gone up and up? Could it be
the poor US economy? Or is it, what, that Clinton did it? Yep, as
far as your concerned Clinton did it.

Look, moron, the US dollar is steadily dropping in value, the national
debt is at a historic high, the trade deficit is at a historic high,
our debt is primarily owned by the commies in China and now lets take
a look at the housing market....AAAAARRRRRGGGHHH.....lets close that
door.

What a maroon, when the pathetic US economy is mentioned the best
idiot boy can come up with is something about those darned Clinton's.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:26 pm    Post subject: Re: ****** THE BOOMING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

On Dec 21, 10:57 am, "theloneranger...@aol.com"
<theloneranger...@aol.com> wrote:
Quote:
Yup........The Bush Economy just keeps BOOMING ALONG.........Ain't It
GRAND?..........Heehee...........

"AP
Consumer Spending Surges in November by Largest Amount in 3 1/2 Years
Friday December 21, 8:49 am ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumers put aside worries about slumping home
sales and soaring gasoline prices and headed to the malls in November,
pushing spending up by the largest amount in 3 1/2 years.

The Commerce Department reported Friday that consumer spending surged
by 1.1 percent last month, nearly triple the October gain."


With spending rising at a faster rate than savings, the nation's
savings rate dipped into negative territory in November at 0.5
percent, the first negative savings rate in 15 months. That meant that
households spent all of their incomes and either dipped into savings
or borrowed to finance high spending last month.


AIN'T IT A HOOT!
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:04 am    Post subject: Re: ****** THE BOOMING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

Quote:


Is all smoke and mirrors, kept afloat by loans from
the Chicoms and OPEC. George W. Bush's
runaway deficit spending will crush the USA.

rw
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:52 am    Post subject: Re: ****** THE TANKING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

On Dec 21, 2:16�pm, SwampMidget <webmas...@101click.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Dec 21, 2:03�pm, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Dec 21, 1:02�pm, SwampMidget <webmas...@101click.com> wrote:

market is up over 150 points

remember, good news for the USA is bad news for lib dems.

Who make up the majority of the US population!

not if homosexuals and oprah watchin' bubble-headed housewives can't
vote.
and when Cheney declares martial law, and becomes emperor, he'll
repeal the 19th amendment, and you and all the degenerates will be put
in reeducation camps.

Smoke Another Bowl, DumbAss............
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:14 am    Post subject: Re: ****** THE TANKING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

<theloneranger100@aol.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
Yup........The Bush Economy just keeps BOOMING ALONG.........Ain't It
GRAND?..........Heehee...........

Yup....You Leftist Sonsabitches don't know how GOOD You have it....In the

Banana Republics, the working poor have to build their own Shacks on the
outskirts of Town....Here in the USA, the Peons Can still afford
**TENTS**....Good thing there ain't no Banana Republicans in the
USA....Donchaknow.....Thank you, President Bush....for Trickling down your
Pantleg.....


Tent city in suburbs is cost of home crisis
Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:11pm EST
By Dana Ford

ONTARIO, California (Reuters) - Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar
of departing planes sits "tent city," a terminus for homeless people. It is
not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the
once-booming suburbia of Southern California.

The noisy, dusty camp sprang up in July with 20 residents and now numbers
200 people, including several children, growing as this region east of Los
Angeles has been hit by the U.S. housing crisis.

The unraveling of the region known as the Inland Empire reads like a 21st
century version of "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck's novel about
families driven from their lands by the Great Depression.

As more families throw in the towel and head to foreclosure here and across
the nation, the social costs of collapse are adding up in the form of higher
rates of homelessness, crime and even disease.

While no current residents claim to be victims of foreclosure, all agree
that tent city is a symptom of the wider economic downturn. And it's just a
matter of time before foreclosed families end up at tent city, local housing
experts say.

"They don't hit the streets immediately," said activist Jane Mercer. Most
families can find transitional housing in a motel or with friends before
turning to charity or the streets. "They only hit tent city when they really
bottom out."

Steve, 50, who declined to give his last name, moved to tent city four
months ago. He gets social security payments, but cannot work and said rents
are too high.

"House prices are going down, but the rentals are sky-high," said Steve. "If
it wasn't for here, I wouldn't have a place to go."

'SQUATTING IN VACANT HOUSES'

Nationally, foreclosures are at an all-time high. Filings are up nearly 100
percent from a year ago, according to the data firm RealtyTrac. Officials
say that as many as half a million people could lose their homes as
adjustable mortgage rates rise over the next two years.

California ranks second in the nation for foreclosure filings -- one per 88
households last quarter. Within California, San Bernardino county in the
Inland Empire is worse -- one filing for every 43 households, according to
RealtyTrac.

Maryanne Hernandez bought her dream house in San Bernardino in 2003 and now
risks losing it after falling four months behind on mortgage payments.

"It's not just us. It's all over," said Hernandez, who lives in a
neighborhood where most families are struggling to meet payments and many
have lost their homes.

She has noticed an increase in crime since the foreclosures started. Her
house was robbed, her kids' bikes were stolen and she worries about what
type of message empty houses send.

The pattern is cropping up in communities across the country, like
Cleveland, Ohio, where Mark Wiseman, director of the Cuyahoga County
Foreclosure Prevention Program, said there are entire blocks of homes in
Cleveland where 60 or 70 percent of houses are boarded up.

"I don't think there are enough police to go after criminals holed up in
those houses, squatting or doing drug deals or whatever," Wiseman said.

"And it's not just a problem of a neighborhood filled with people squatting
in the vacant houses, it's the people left behind, who have to worry about
people taking siding off your home or breaking into your house while you're
sleeping."

Health risks are also on the rise. All those empty swimming pools in
California's Inland Empire have become breeding grounds for mosquitoes,
which can transmit the sometimes deadly West Nile virus, Riverside County
officials say.

'TRICKLE-DOWN EFFECT'

But it is not just homeowners who are hit by the foreclosure wave. People
who rent now find themselves in a tighter, more expensive market as demand
rises from families who lost homes, said Jean Beil, senior vice president
for programs and services at Catholic Charities USA.

"Folks who would have been in a house before are now in an apartment and
folks that would have been in an apartment, now can't afford it," said Beil.
"It has a trickle-down effect."

For cities, foreclosures can trigger a range of short-term costs, like added
policing, inspection and code enforcement. These expenses can be
significant, said Lt. Scott Patterson with the San Bernardino Police
Department, but the larger concern is that vacant properties lower home
values and in the long-run, decrease tax revenues.

And it all comes at a time when municipalities are ill-equipped to respond.
High foreclosure rates and declining home values are sapping property tax
revenues, a key source of local funding to tackle such problems.

Earlier this month, U.S. President George W. Bush rolled out a plan to slow
foreclosures by freezing the interest rates on some loans. But for many in
these parts, the intervention is too little and too late.

Ken Sawa, CEO of Catholic Charities in San Bernardino and Riverside
counties, said his organization is overwhelmed and ill-equipped to handle
the volume of people seeking help.

"We feel helpless," said Sawa. "Obviously, it's a local problem because it's
in our backyard, but the solution is not local."

(Additional reporting by Andrea Hopkins in Ohio; Editing by Mary Milliken
and Eddie Evans)

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Reuters journalists are subject to the Reuters Editorial Handbook which
requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:22 am    Post subject: Re: ****** THE BOOMING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

"SwampMidget" <webmaster@101click.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
market is up over 150 points

remember, good news for the USA is bad news for lib dems.

Holy shit! It oughtta be a very Merry Christmas for you!! You can buy a
new tent for your family with your stock market gains....
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:23 am    Post subject: Re: ****** THE BOOMING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

"theloneranger100@aol.com" <ScreenBeret100@aol.com> wrote in message
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On Dec 21, 11:21 am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Dec 21, 1:17 pm, "theloneranger...@aol.com"





ScreenRanger...@aol.com> wrote:
On Dec 21, 11:12 am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Dec 21, 1:07 pm, "theloneranger...@aol.com"

ScreenRanger...@aol.com> wrote:
On Dec 21, 11:03?am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Dec 21, 1:02?pm, SwampMidget <webmas...@101click.com> wrote:

market is up over 150 points

remember, good news for the USA is bad news for lib dems.

Who make up the majority of the US population!

Naw........The Lefties are a MINORITY, DumbAss..........That's Why
they CAN'T get Anything
Done..........Donchaknow..........Dork............

Nope. They're the majority.

Smoke Another Bowl, DumbAss............- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

So, where do you live, Ranger? Afraid of something? Hummmmm?- Hide quoted
text -

- Show quoted text -

I really Piss You OFF, Prick........Isn't that Just TOO
BAD?........Heehee.........

You piss down your own pantleg daily, dipshit....
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:46 am    Post subject: Re: ****** THE BOOMING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

On Dec 21, 5:22 pm, "Jorge W. Arbusto, Presidential Candidate"
<fakera...@crawford.tex> wrote:
Quote:
"SwampMidget" <webmas...@101click.com> wrote in message

news:0b6c425a-561e-4092-8653-e168221ca8f5@j20g2000hsi.googlegroups.com...

market is up over 150 points

remember, good news for the USA is bad news for lib dems.

Holy shit! It oughtta be a very Merry Christmas for you!! You can buy a
new tent for your family with your stock market gains....

Midget has admitted his ignorance, When asked what Ken Starr
reported about Hillary's cattle future deal he said," I don't know for
sure".
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:16 am    Post subject: Re: ****** THE BOOMING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

On Dec 21, 5:23�pm, "Jorge W. Arbusto, Presidential Candidate"
<fakera...@crawford.tex> wrote:
Quote:
"theloneranger...@aol.com" <ScreenBeret...@aol.com> wrote in message

news:457fd5d9-c5f2-4c21-91fc-6650a27eb09b@q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
On Dec 21, 11:21 am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:





On Dec 21, 1:17 pm, "theloneranger...@aol.com"

ScreenRanger...@aol.com> wrote:
On Dec 21, 11:12 am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Dec 21, 1:07 pm, "theloneranger...@aol.com"

ScreenRanger...@aol.com> wrote:
On Dec 21, 11:03?am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Dec 21, 1:02?pm, SwampMidget <webmas...@101click.com> wrote:

market is up over 150 points

remember, good news for the USA is bad news for lib dems.

Who make up the majority of the US population!

Naw........The Lefties are a MINORITY, DumbAss..........That's Why
they CAN'T get Anything
Done..........Donchaknow..........Dork............

Nope. They're the majority.

Smoke Another Bowl, DumbAss............- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

So, where do you live, Ranger? Afraid of something? Hummmmm?- Hide quoted
text -

- Show quoted text -

I really Piss You OFF, Prick........Isn't that Just TOO
BAD?........Heehee.........

You piss down your own pantleg daily, dipshit....- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

You Poor, Pathetic Sonuvabitch.............
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:07 pm    Post subject: Re: ****** THE TANKING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

On Dec 22, 6:16 am, "theloneranger...@aol.com"
<theloneranger...@aol.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Dec 21, 5:23�pm, "Jorge W. Arbusto, Presidential Candidate"





fakera...@crawford.tex> wrote:
"theloneranger...@aol.com" <ScreenBeret...@aol.com> wrote in message

news:457fd5d9-c5f2-4c21-91fc-6650a27eb09b@q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
On Dec 21, 11:21 am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Dec 21, 1:17 pm, "theloneranger...@aol.com"

ScreenRanger...@aol.com> wrote:
On Dec 21, 11:12 am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Dec 21, 1:07 pm, "theloneranger...@aol.com"

ScreenRanger...@aol.com> wrote:
On Dec 21, 11:03?am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Dec 21, 1:02?pm, SwampMidget <webmas...@101click.com> wrote:

market is up over 150 points

remember, good news for the USA is bad news for lib dems.

Who make up the majority of the US population!

Naw........The Lefties are a MINORITY, DumbAss..........That's Why
they CAN'T get Anything
Done..........Donchaknow..........Dork............

Nope. They're the majority.

Smoke Another Bowl, DumbAss............- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

So, where do you live, Ranger? Afraid of something? Hummmmm?- Hide quoted
text -

- Show quoted text -

I really Piss You OFF, Prick........Isn't that Just TOO
BAD?........Heehee.........

You piss down your own pantleg daily, dipshit....- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

You Poor, Pathetic Sonuvabitch.............- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Smoke another Bowl, you asslicking, braindead, inbred, rightard
Goober. <snicker>
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:50 pm    Post subject: Re: ****** THE BOOMING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

SwampMidget <webmaster@101click.com> wrote in news:467322e7-288b-40f3-b333-
db020ca1aaa0@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

Quote:
hillary's "magic" commodities trading:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
srv/politics/special/whitewater/stories/wwtr940527.htm


July 23, 1979: She withdrew $60,000 and never traded
again, closing the account in October.

To anyone with a working brain cell, this screams "PAYOFF!"

Alas, that hypothetical brain cell would not be Grapman's.

--
I'd rather be a conservative nut job
than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:14 pm    Post subject: Re: ****** THE BOOMING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

<theloneranger100@aol.com> wrote in message
news:8fabde5c-c8c1-4b47-82f7-ae07d37db44c@u48g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
On Dec 21, 5:23?pm, "Jorge W. Arbusto, Presidential Candidate"
<fakera...@crawford.tex> wrote:
Quote:
"theloneranger...@aol.com" <ScreenBeret...@aol.com> wrote in message

news:457fd5d9-c5f2-4c21-91fc-6650a27eb09b@q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
On Dec 21, 11:21 am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:





On Dec 21, 1:17 pm, "theloneranger...@aol.com"

ScreenRanger...@aol.com> wrote:
On Dec 21, 11:12 am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Dec 21, 1:07 pm, "theloneranger...@aol.com"

ScreenRanger...@aol.com> wrote:
On Dec 21, 11:03?am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Dec 21, 1:02?pm, SwampMidget <webmas...@101click.com> wrote:

market is up over 150 points

remember, good news for the USA is bad news for lib dems.

Who make up the majority of the US population!

Naw........The Lefties are a MINORITY, DumbAss..........That's Why
they CAN'T get Anything
Done..........Donchaknow..........Dork............

Nope. They're the majority.

Smoke Another Bowl, DumbAss............- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

So, where do you live, Ranger? Afraid of something? Hummmmm?- Hide
quoted
text -

- Show quoted text -

I really Piss You OFF, Prick........Isn't that Just TOO
BAD?........Heehee.........

You piss down your own pantleg daily, dipshit....- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

You Poor, Pathetic Sonuvabitch.............

Yup...Them Leftist Pukes Sure are some Pathetic Sonsabitches....The probably
expect the Government to provide Them with NEW TENTS....Donchaknow.....Ain't
it a HOOT!!


Tent city in suburbs is cost of U.S. home crisis
a.. Reuters
b.. Friday December 21 2007
By Dana Ford
ONTARIO, Calif., Dec 21 (Reuters) - Between railroad tracks and beneath the
roar of departing planes sits "tent city," a terminus for homeless people.
It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the
once-booming suburbia of Southern California.
The noisy, dusty camp sprang up in July with 20 residents and now numbers
200 people, including several children, growing as this region east of Los
Angeles has been hit by the U.S. housing crisis.
The unraveling of the region known as the Inland Empire reads like a 21st
century version of "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck's novel about
families driven from their lands by the Great Depression.
As more families throw in the towel and head to foreclosure here and across
the nation, the social costs of collapse are adding up in the form of higher
rates of homelessness, crime and even disease.
While no current residents claim to be victims of foreclosure, all agree
that tent city is a symptom of the wider economic downturn. And it's just a
matter of time before foreclosed families end up at tent city, local housing
experts say.
"They don't hit the streets immediately," said activist Jane Mercer. Most
families can find transitional housing in a motel or with friends before
turning to charity or the streets. "They only hit tent city when they really
bottom out."
Steve, 50, who declined to give his last name, moved to tent city four
months ago. He gets social security payments, but cannot work and said rents
are too high.
"House prices are going down, but the rentals are sky-high," said Steve. "If
it wasn't for here, I wouldn't have a place to go."
'SQUATTING IN VACANT HOUSES'
Nationally, foreclosures are at an all-time high. Filings are up nearly 100
percent from a year ago, according to the data firm RealtyTrac. Officials
say that as many as half a million people could lose their homes as
adjustable mortgage rates rise over the next two years.
California ranks second in the nation for foreclosure filings -- one per 88
households last quarter. Within California, San Bernardino county in the
Inland Empire is worse -- one filing for every 43 households, according to
RealtyTrac.
Maryanne Hernandez bought her dream house in San Bernardino in 2003 and now
risks losing it after falling four months behind on mortgage payments.
"It's not just us. It's all over," said Hernandez, who lives in a
neighborhood where most families are struggling to meet payments and many
have lost their homes.
She has noticed an increase in crime since the foreclosures started. Her
house was robbed, her kids' bikes were stolen and she worries about what
type of message empty houses send.
The pattern is cropping up in communities across the country, like
Cleveland, Ohio, where Mark Wiseman, director of the Cuyahoga County
Foreclosure Prevention Program, said there are entire blocks of homes in
Cleveland where 60 or 70 percent of houses are boarded up.
"I don't think there are enough police to go after criminals holed up in
those houses, squatting or doing drug deals or whatever," Wiseman said.
"And it's not just a problem of a neighborhood filled with people squatting
in the vacant houses, it's the people left behind, who have to worry about
people taking siding off your home or breaking into your house while you're
sleeping."
Health risks are also on the rise. All those empty swimming pools in
California's Inland Empire have become breeding grounds for mosquitoes,
which can transmit the sometimes deadly West Nile virus, Riverside County
officials say.
'TRICKLE-DOWN EFFECT'
But it is not just homeowners who are hit by the foreclosure wave. People
who rent now find themselves in a tighter, more expensive market as demand
rises from families who lost homes, said Jean Beil, senior vice president
for programs and services at Catholic Charities USA.
"Folks who would have been in a house before are now in an apartment and
folks that would have been in an apartment, now can't afford it," said Beil.
"It has a trickle-down effect."
For cities, foreclosures can trigger a range of short-term costs, like added
policing, inspection and code enforcement. These expenses can be
significant, said Lt. Scott Patterson with the San Bernardino Police
Department, but the larger concern is that vacant properties lower home
values and in the long-run, decrease tax revenues.
And it all comes at a time when municipalities are ill-equipped to respond.
High foreclosure rates and declining home values are sapping property tax
revenues, a key source of local funding to tackle such problems.
Earlier this month, U.S. President George W. Bush rolled out a plan to slow
foreclosures by freezing the interest rates on some loans. But for many in
these parts, the intervention is too little and too late.
Ken Sawa, CEO of Catholic Charities in San Bernardino and Riverside
counties, said his organization is overwhelmed and ill-equipped to handle
the volume of people seeking help.
"We feel helpless," said Sawa. "Obviously, it's a local problem because it's
in our backyard, but the solution is not local."
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:53 pm    Post subject: Re: ****** THE BOOMING BUSH ECONOMY ****** Reply with quote

"Jim Alder" <jimalder@ssnet.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
SwampMidget <webmaster@101click.com> wrote in
news:467322e7-288b-40f3-b333-
db020ca1aaa0@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

hillary's "magic" commodities trading:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
srv/politics/special/whitewater/stories/wwtr940527.htm

July 23, 1979: She withdrew $60,000 and never traded
again, closing the account in October.

To anyone with a working brain cell, this screams "PAYOFF!"

To anyone not suffering from a recto-cranial inversion, and that ain't you,

Alderloon, this screams "Desperate Political Smear!"

" Even allocated trades would not necessarily have benefited Clinton,
Melamed added. "I have no reason to change my original assessment. Mrs.
Clinton violated no rules in the course of her transactions," he said."


Quote:

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I'd rather be a conservative nut job
than a liberal with no nuts and no job.

You've succeded at all three, so what does that make you, Alderloon?
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