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Posted on December 1 at 7:39 a.m.
ARMS do not represent the majority of bad loans in existence, just the majority within the banks mentioned in this article. While these ARMS were and are a problem, the majority of bad mortgages which were held by investment banks or "Wall Street" were simple adjustable mortgages. If these mortgages, offered to people who were not capable of paying these mortgages off, did not become securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, there would have been no incentive to offer them. If the mortgage brokers had no were to sell the mortgages, they would have not been able to make money. Remember mortgage brokers make money selling loans, not holding them. If there was not a market for their fraud, the "shell game" would never have gotten started. Who insisted on the securitization of these questionable mortgages, so these same questionable mortgages offered to minorities could be blended in with performing mortgages, ACRON. ACRON's efforts began during Carter's administration, ask anyone who was in banking in the Seventies.
On AP review: Bush administration backed off calls to crack down on high-risk loans
Posted on November 25 at 7:38 a.m.
CCPS stop trying to balance your budget on the backs of the few students who genuinely want to earn an education.
The, if you think we have not noticed, secret mainstreaming of non-gifted, non-high achieving students into "Challenge" classes takes away the legal right of those who qualify to receive curriculum matched to their advanced abilities. Additionally, all classes listed as "Challenge" with students who tested as "Gifted" must be taught by Gifted Certified teachers for the specific subject they are teaching. This means that CCPS can not legally have a teacher gifted certified in wood shop, teaching a "challenge" chemistry class. This is taking place this school year. These matters are State Of Florida Law and we will sue CCPS if this is not corrected by 2009/2010.
CCPS can easily solve this problem by going back to "cluster" classes of "Challenge" students at "cluster" schools, as "clustering" was working perfectly before CCPS's foolish "take care of our own" program.
Yes, NDN there is a bigger controversy taking place within CCPS, but you would not know anything about this real story, since you do not investigate the truth, you present the bare minimum of days old news or press releases from the City of Naples, Collier County and/or CCPS, all placed a few pages before the advertising you care so much about.
Try being a newspaper with reporters, not "mailbox" junk mail.
On Some Collier students will watch their GPA slide through no fault of their own
Posted on November 20 at 7:27 a.m.
Imagine if more "gangsta" criminals, who did not have to pay tuition under Obama's free tuition plan, found themselves on University campuses throughout the country. That would be an easier game for the criminals to play than Play Station and X-Box!
Posted on November 20 at 7:20 a.m.
Before Barney Frank's love interest at Fanny Mae, Herb Moses and other completely unqualified people at Freddie Mac "securitized" bad Acorn mandated loans and then the Federal Government, including, but very far from limited to Bush people, who failed to insist that the Sarbanes Oxley "Mark To Market" rule be suspended, many Universities held enough value in their endowments where the endowment's interest income per year exceeded the total tuition of that University's students. As a result of their endowment's interest income, many Universities began or were in the process of waving tuition for their undergraduate students. Now that their endowments are worth half or less, because democratic leaders in congress wanted a bad economy going into the presidential election so Obama, the new face/string puppet of the newly merged old Clinton Administration and the greater Daley Family from Chicago would be elected and additionally unqualified comedians could be elected to the Senate, I suspect those programs will no longer be available.
I agree with post 5, Florida's "Bright Futures" and "Bright Start" programs are free tuition without the need for any additional service commitment. The student simply must maintain high grades while attending college.
Problem with free tuition for all. Ask any professor at FGCU and they will tell you they are dealing with the least educated, most self-centered, spoiled children they have ever encountered. They want "A's" for simply showing up once in a while to class. There has been an epidemic of "grade inflation" taking place during the last decade because over-whelmed high school teachers and college professors have to be prepared no less than trail attorneys to verbally flight off parents who insist that their children deserves better grades. It is never the child who does not achieve or put in the effort, it is always the teacher who did something wrong. If you simply let everyone who has nothing else to do, occupy their time sitting in a college class because after all they do not have to pay for the class, what do you expect will happen to "higher" education?
I guess a good answer will be it will become "securitized"
On POLL: Reaction mixed to Obama’s free higher education proposal
Posted on November 18 at 3:50 p.m.
beetlejuice, why did you not complain when the City of Naples failed to develop a park on the Gordon River front property which they were being given for free? Since you did not, why does this park matter? Are you a real estate owner in any form, with property within the City of Naples, who will be paying a fare share for the purposed Antaramian bailout?
Antaramian became a democrat because socialist bailouts are their brittle wood crutches which will collapse and take more down than they hope to help.
Posted on November 18 at 9:57 a.m.
Can anyone tell us who on the city council, the Mayor and members of the Mayor's staff has more than a high school education, if even a high school diploma? If anyone achieved more, specifically what did that individual or those individuals achieve?
I did mean Naples Bay, as it is, all lemons look like lemons and lemons seem to grow well East of 9th Street and North of 5th Avenue South.
"nightranger" in this case I suspect you mean to imply a Chicago Second or Chicago Style "Change", remember Jack Antaramian and Kraft Construction's CEO Robert Carsello both came from Chicago and were well trained in Chicago's long established "machine" way of getting things done. Sharing the money gets the projects, "Pay To Play"! Do not think for a moment that they did not entice our, as you chose to refer them, "well respected and wealthy citizens of Naples".
Remember the gifts we the citizens of Naples have received from this "well respected group":
Private entrance to their private country club.
Reclaimed water which kills Port Royal's non-native landscaping.
A parking garage which is too ugly to even be called a lemon, and will not be used by any women nor the elderly, as women and the elderly fear their vulnerability within parking garages.
And their biggest gift, which apparently was too complicated for everyone to understand or maybe the "talking point" they gave Jenna Buzzacco of the NDN was too vague for her to report the reality of their action - post employment health insurance which means we the citizens of Naples will continue to pay the health insurance of past city council members, mayors and their dependent family members long after their terms are over.
Wake up Naples, you effectively are being robbed!
Posted on November 17 at 5 p.m.
Here is the deal!
Our city council, individually as private parties invested in Bayfront, with deposits on condos they hope to flip for large profits before required closings. The Bayfront project failed to develop market interest, so their deposit are being held by Antaramian. So Passidomo worked out a deal, buy Jack's lemon of a property with city money and Jack will release your deposits and all personal obligations you have with Bayfront.
Can any say "Sunshine Law".
See if NDN was a real newspaper and employed reporters rather than persons who report press releases, they would "follow the money" to the real answer as to why anyone would want to buy land to build a useless park, across the street from the river front land which the city was given for free, where they were going to build a park on, but never did, so the owner took it back.
Posted on November 16 at 8:51 p.m.
What use truly meets any need of the very diverse tax base who would have to paid for this land?
Younger families would use an indoor multipurpose events/sports facility, but are out numbered by residents who would derive no benefit from this use.
$18 million to purchase, an unknown unreasonable number to improve. Could municipal bonds even be rated and sold for this?
Please take a pass City Council, the new taxes from Washington will be all we can handle and to be honest, that "Change" sign which sat on this property has caused a cloud to hang over it.
On Naples City Council advised to delay decision on buying Renaissance Village property
Posted on October 28 at 7:14 a.m.
The City of Naples missed the opportunity to maintain interest in Naples, when it failed to rebut all of the national media which began to "dump" on Naples when their weather trucks left Mayor Barnett sitting on top of the tree in front of City Hall, after the hurricane. How many "Naples is the most overvalued housing market in the Nation" articles were printed since that time? The City of Naples should have immediately began a marketing campaign up North and sold the notion that we still are the "Rob Report" place to visit, just as we were in 2004 and 2005. The City of Naples, or that area West of US-41, is not the most overvalued in the Nation and is not the failing developments along I-75. The national press, needing to sell its "National Enquirer" style garbage, believes Naples to include everything to the Broward County Line. Port Royal, Aqualane, Old Naples, Coquina Sands, the Moorings and Park Shore are not being foreclosed and auctioned. Our beach and golf courses should, by any comparison, be included within any list of the best in the continental United States. What area of the Country had better weather these past two Winters? Really, that should include the past two Falls and Springs, ask anyone who came down late or left early.
When the perception that Naples became "has been" was not rebutted by the so called leaders of this city, and Naples was allowed to become the place no longer to be seen or tell ones peers in the office or club that "I am taking my wife to" or "all of my golf buddies and I are going to" Naples, the image of this City fell off the table and into the trash can.
Sell the City of Naples up in New York, Boston, Chicago and the Northern cities were all of young or youthfully spirited people with money can be found and make Naples "Cool" again. They will come back and hotels will have guests, businesses with have customers and the homes will sell.
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Posted on December 1 at 10:53 a.m.
Antaramian did not deserve "Change" from a foolish investment to financial salvation. And for those who suddenly needed to vote against this, eating the deposit money you spent on pre-construction condo purchases at Naples Bay must be a more tolerable form of pain than your business dealings with Antaramian being known by all.
No one ever answer the question, does anyone on the Naples City Council or the Mayor have more than a high school diploma or GED equivalent?
On City of Naples decides not to purchase Renaissance Village for park