Tiggy's Comments (740)

“I say I say we need a rooster to take charge....lol”

“Don't foget the K-y jelly or vaseline!”

“Our politicians pay lip service to us and then cast their vote for Wall Street. It is nothing new...it is simply the same old same old. We need to vote out the incumbents one by one until we have replaced the whole lot of them! When we have effectively taken back our house and senate...then we can have real change, not propaganda, but real change.

As to those who will argue that their rep brings home the bacon, while that may be true, he / she also steals the pig so in effect, we are thrown the scrapple! We have to be willing to sacrifice a little now to get the change necessary to better our future. After what we have endured at the hands of Wall Street and the insurance industry a little flesh is long over due. The squeal and oink as our reps are ousted will be our bonus.”

“How true! Some of us actually went in debt simply trying to survive, not live in access, just survive. Do the math, a person making min. wage CAN'T afford to live on their own especially in areas where self owned transportation is required. Pay has simply not kept pace with the cost of living. If you have kids, the cost of taxes, food, electricity, shelter and transportation leave nothing to save, if and I mean if, you could pay all of those things there is nothing left. Our electrical fees have increased 50% and Food has increased 14% all within the past two years. Our pay increase? 0 Our bonus? 0. And there you have it folks...DEBT”

“He also said, "I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared" and look where we are! I also like his take on elections wherein he said, "We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude" the later being where the people now find themselves.

When he crafted the words, "...that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government..." he was right on target.
To the polls people to the polls!”

“While he did assist in the clean up effort, he failed to prevent or even slow the mess! He flat out missed the signs and warnings. So to me, his good does not undo the harm of the mess. Ask anyone who lost their home and job if he should be Person of the year! NO.”

“What I fear the SWAT team will find is a lot of homes already vacated by the homeowners after the banks refused to modify the mortgages. These vacant homes have been sitting in limbo for months, two in our neighborhood since April 2009 and the bank has yet to foreclose. So the next wave of foreclosures will send the housing market into yet another down turn. The sad part is that the banks knew of these properties and failed to list them as toxic assets. So much for the balance sheets! The banks have done absolutely nothing to help clean up the mess they created. They think because their crisis has ended thanks to tax payers it is business as usual. We need reform and we need it fast.”

“Bloomberg news ticker : Lehman's bankruptcy advisors got paid $533.5 million dollars from Sept 2008 to date.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aqRl4rRwz1N8”

“It goes to the Washington mindset has so said by one of their own. As to Obama, he has a track record that is in line with the Washington mindset so there is no pretense on my part.”

“In the pages of the book "True Compass" by Ted Kennedy I read the following, "....Senator Robertson speak very ardently in favor of a certain bill...". "The time for the roll call came. Impressed with the Virginia senator's passion, I cast and "aye" vote when my turn came. When the call got to Robertson, he voted "no". I couldn't believe my ears. I went up to him afterward and said, "Senator, I just listened to you speech on this issue, and you spoike strongly in favor of it. Then you voted "no." I'm confused." Robertson smiled at me. "Well Senator", he said, "in my state people are evenly divided on this bill. To those who favor it, I send my speech. To those who are opposed, I send my vote."

Sound familiar? To those who voted Obama in he sends his words to those who paid the way his vote! Some things and people never change.”

“First I think their pay and bonuses are outrageous in a good economy! I would like nothing better than for any person who received a bonus, if the company they worked for received bailout funds, to pay back every penny with interest! I do not hold true to the notion that "the arsonists are now the firefighters."

Goldman did pay back no doubt with the 100 cents payback they received from AIG.”

“BOA made their money in overdraft fees and interest rate increases, AIG paid all their money to Goldman so they just don't have the funds. About the only thing AIG can pay; big bonuses.”

“You can be 100% sure of one thing...the pay czar has no Bal*s so that money will never be repaid! If anything, they will get that and a heck of a lot more.”

“Sadly, they will never be brought to justice. Personally I consider what the banks and Wall Street did to this economy to be treason! We lynch Madoff and rightfully so, yet the SEC gives these other companies a pass while our Gov't follows up with massive bailouts. And the kicker...there were no restrictions on these bailouts, no tax payer protection mechanisms put in place.

As to your situation. Have you tried contacting your state reps for redress? Certainly if you have all of these agreements in writing they are enforceable. I would check the laws and see if Chase can deny you that. My guess is like with all business deals, especially where the gov't is involved, the people are sold out! Where they really get us, is people lack the necessary $$ to help themselves. If this does not work, then contact the Congressional and Senate Committees with proper oversight for assistance.

Whatever route you chose, do not give up and do not give in. Contact your local news...national news...”

“You betcha I do! I spend a great deal of time helping others and you?”

“Wonder how much more will go to help us citizens via big business...lol. Just keep spending our money...Just like Santa, elections are coming. And I will be singing all the way to the polls...

The cold outside is bitter
For the homeless thanks to the sitters
Cast aside in the snow
Let em go! Let em go! Let em go!

All the while the people they fleeced
Showed no remorse or sign of peace
Finally we say NO
Let em go! Let em go! Let em go!

The money those thieves did keep
Leaving us people to weep
Like the light in the eyes of a doe
Let em go! Let em go! Let em go!

Now they demand the purse
While us people are angered and curse
Let em carry their brief case in tow
Let em go! Let em go! Let em go!”

“It is our gov't that needs to wake up...with all the tax payer infusions banks still moved forward against the best interest of country by laying people off, failing to modify mortgages, increasing fees and interest rates and paying huge bonuses. And now...those very banks are failing to foreclose on homes that were vacated months back. These homes sit in limbo without maintenance or HOA dues being paid which causes the HOA to increase their dues on those of us paying so that they can meet their budget.

And our naive gov't wants to set aside money for investors to buy troubled assets from banks? Yet we can't get an answer as to how much toxic assets are out there. Wasn't a condition of TARP that banks figure that out? Another example of banks putting country first...yeah right. Accounting ethics went out the window with the balance sheets.”

“As taxpayers we own 80% of that company and we have a right and duty to demand pay restrictions. Let's all write our reps and let our demands be known. If they don't hear us loud and clear, lets remove all doubt when we head to the polls.

A bit of Holiday Cheer...remix
The cold outside is bitter
For the homeless thanks to the sitters
Cast aside in the snow
Let em go! Let em go! Let em go!

All the while the people they fleeced
Showed no remorse or sign of peace
Finally we say NO
Let em go! Let em go! Let em go!

The money those thieves did keep
Leaving us people to weep
Like the light in the eyes of a doe
Let em go! Let em go! Let em go!

Now they demand the purse
While us people are angered and curse
Let em carry their brief case in tow
Let em go! Let em go! Let em go!”

“"...$1 Trillion for the Public-Private Investment Program, designed to help investors buy distressed loans..." Perhaps therein lies the very reason banks have not foreclosed on vacated properties! There are two on our street that the banks have been made aware that have been vacant for over seven months yet the bank has failed to file any paperwork with the courts. Could they be waiting for the "program" so they don't have to realize these toxic assets? Forget that a condition under TARP was for these banks to figure out and disclose their troubled assets! These homes sit in limbo with no maintenence and no HOA dues being paid.

The banks really show their greed when they allow these homes to drag down otherwise nice communities and cause HOA's to increase fees as they are not meeting their budgets due to lack of payments.”

“Because they are a business with a sole purpose to make money, oh yeah...but they weren't until tax payers bailed them out. Accounting ethics be dam*ned as is the balance sheet. I have never witnessed a more egregious and arrogant form of greed than this economic crisis, nor a more incompetent congress for allowing it.

For every bill designed to help us, there is a loophole to help the business sc*ew us. Tax payers all but own AIG yet we have no say in how it operates. Tax payers bailed out Wall Street yet we have no say in how they conduct business.”

“Yeap and the new trend is that banks are raising their fees and interest providing us an "opt out" option which is to pay off your card and cancel it. In a nut, it is their way or the highway. Thanks congress for that bill you passed that was supposed to protect us.”

“Our gov't should take that 200 billion left over and buy into hedge funds that the housing market has not hit bottom and use the profit to pay down the national debt.

A big problem in the works is that banks are NOT going through with foreclosures on properties that they KNOW have been vacated by the homeowner. So after yearly bonuses have been paid and we move forward into the new year we can expect another wave of foreclosures to saturate the market. Yes, causing Wall Street to again benefit. Bankers got their bonuses and Wall Street will get their money...And the people well...we know what we get. Maybe Santa will bring us all vaseline for Christmas”

“The problem is that we failed to act in time! Had we modified these mortgages and in doing so prevented the wave of foreclosures in the beginning, we would not have entered the vicious cycle. That being said how do we fix a problem where the mortgages are "underwater", well, homeowners can walk away, we can modify at owed value by lengthening the payoff constraint (hoping the home will return to positive equity) or banks can modify at current value and write off the remainder as a loss. After all, a condition of TARP was to determine troubled assets and lord knows we citizens can't write off any of our losses these days.

A larger problem that I see from community to community is that people have already vacated the homes, often over six months ago and many nine months ago, and the bank has yet to initiate the or complete the foreclosure process. As a side note, many walked away after the banks FAILED to work with them. So there are a lot of homes in limbo with no one acknowledging their existence. Wonder what will happen after bonuses have been paid and the next of foreclosures begin after the first of the year? Further decline! Wall Street again will be the benefactors!”

“Only problem is to get tough a set of Bal*s is required and our reps lack them...maybe Santa will leave them some in a bag of coal. Oh shoot, Santa doesn't have the money this year...lost it all in the market. We are in big trouble.”

“Already the case for many as what the Fed Gov doesn't take the states do and well what is left is usurped by the mere cost of living...nothing extra at all.”