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Posted on September 23 at 12:03 p.m.
Please find a way to televise this online. Many of us cannot be there but want to follow this important story that.
This is a part of the financial privatization policy that has stolen so much value from the tax payers already. Enough is enough.
On Urban Land Institute, Collier EDC to host Alligator Alley program
Posted on September 23 at 11:59 a.m.
The problem is the thousands of homeowners who are expected to be going into foreclosure daily. Eight thousand more homes are expected to go into foreclosure right here in Collier County by the end of the year. As this plays out over the coming years, the value of real estate nationally is going to continue to fall.
The reason there is a call for an immediate bailout of $700 billion dollars is because the financial powerhouses want to get their money before we figure out how deep a mess they have created.
We should NOT bail them out quickly, if at all. The financial wheels have already come off. Our decision is whether to bail out the millionaires or to figure out a better method of taking over control of and cleaning up the mess they made. We need to create an agency, perhaps using the $700 million to create a workable solution for the homeowners to ease the pace of the foreclosures.
By slowing the bleeding and developing a plan to stabilize the housing market and home ownership we will do far more to rebuild confidence because it will be based on actual, transparent and fundamentally sound principles. The financial well being of our country is in the balance.
The private financial industry has shown that it cannot be trusted. It sees its primary fiduciary responsibility is to the stockholders and not the homeowners. It has failed both, but comes to us the taxpayers to bail them out. The taxpayers’ primary fiduciary responsibility is to the tax payers. Buying bad debt and getting worthless debt is not in our best interest. But setting up an agency to help homeowners is.
On Bush team urges Congress to pass $700 billion bailout for Wall Street
Posted on September 22 at 1:36 p.m.
Based on these phone conversation dates, where does hiring the Hinshaw and Culbertson firm come in?
Posted on September 22 at 11:02 a.m.
I have a bad feeling about this. Failure to adequately plan on their part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
The problem is the thousands of homeowners who are expected to be going into foreclosure daily. Eight thousand more homes are expected to go into foreclosure right here in Collier County by the end of the year. As this plays out over the coming years, the value of real estate nationally is going to continue to fall.
The reason there is a call for an immediate bailout of $700 billion dollars is because the financial powerhouses want to get their money before we figure out how deep a mess they have created.
We should NOT bail them out quickly, if at all. The financial wheels have already come off. Our decision is whether to bail out the millionaires or to figure out a better method of taking over control of and cleaning up the mess they made. We need to create an agency, perhaps using the $700 million to create a workable solution for the homeowners to ease the pace of the foreclosures.
By slowing the bleeding and developing a plan to stabilize the housing market and home ownership we will do far more to rebuild confidence because it will be based on actual, transparent and fundamentally sound principles. The financial well being of our country is in the balance.
The private financial industry has shown that it cannot be trusted. It sees its primary fiduciary responsibility is to the stockholders and not the homeowners. It has failed both, but comes to us the taxpayers to bail them out. The taxpayers’ primary fiduciary responsibility is to the tax payers. Buying bad debt and getting worthless debt is not in our best interest. But setting up an agency to help homeowners is.
Posted on September 16 at 7:06 p.m.
“Markets work best at solving problems ... instead of regulation,” said Mark Delegal, an attorney for Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar in Tallahassee, whose biggest client is State Farm and also represents the Florida Chamber of Commerce. “I have confidence in Wall Street, not withstanding what has happened in the last 48 hours.”
This man is paid huge sums of money as a lobbyist for the clients mentioned above. Big money is still backing deregulation in spite of the catastrophic implosion on Wall Street. Mark virtually ranted about believing in free markets today like some kind of zealot. There is nothing magical about free markets. There is no invisible hand as if God was guiding the glory of the dollar. In fact, I suspect, this is her wrath we are witnessing at the unmitigated greed of the powerful trampling on the working class.
Let the brokerage firms eat cake for a change. We will all survive and perhaps develop a more sustainable economic system.
Posted on September 3 at 1:12 p.m.
"Go around the universities and look at the BMWs and Corvettes," said Charles Reed, a former State University System chancellor. "It's embarrassing."
Please tell me where I can buy a $4000 BMW or other fancy car. Good grief...that makes no sense at all. Room and board are $8-10,000 per year on top of the tuition. The scholarships are also good at private colleges.
It is bad policy to tax the poor for education through a lottery fund, but the concept of rewarding students who work hard is a good policy and needs to be preserved.
Posted on August 23 at 9:46 a.m.
Good job NDN for knocking this article off as the headlinging story.
Fournier is a Karl Rove lapdog writing anti Obama/Biden tripe and this article is just the latest of many.
Here is an example of his attempts to paint Obama as uppity:
"He can be a bit too cocky for his own good," a veteran political reporter for the Associated Press, Ron Fournier, wrote in a column Monday. He said Mr. Obama is "bordering on arrogance" and that the Illinois senator and his wife "ooze a sense of entitlement."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_campaignpl...
For those who need more evidence that the AP political writer Fournier is biased, the following excerpt is from a compelling analysis:“…while investigators for the House Oversight Committee were looking into the 2004 death of Cpl. Pat Tillman, the former NFL player whose story was promoted by the White House before it was revealed that he had been killed by friendly fire, they discovered that top political aide Karl Rove had exchanged emails with the Associated Press' Ron Fournier on the day the news of Tillman's death broke.
In one email, Rove asked, "How does our country continue to produce men and women like this?" Fournier responded: "The Lord creates men and women like this all over the world. But only the great and free countries allow them to flourish. Keep up the fight."”
Written during the presidential re-election campaign where Fournier is throwing away his credentials as a professional journalist and kowtowing to the rightwing.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/20080...
Posted on August 16 at 9:25 p.m.
Phil,
When you soften the standard to so that there is an exception made for an intermediary to carry messages between elected officials out of the view of the public (even if you feel a greater good is possible as the result of a journalist being the exception) the weakened system erodes the protection of the public. Other intermediate people (spouses of elected officials, friends of elected officials, lobbyists etc) can evade public scrutiny by carrying messages between officials outside the sunshine of the publicly noticed meeting.
Publicly noticed meetings are required by law before the business of the public is carried out or even discussed (see relevant statute below). That serves us by protecting us from the bad old days of smoke filled back rooms where the decisions regarding our welfare were made and served the needs of the privileged few with the power. There is a heightened sense that this is exactly what happened with our current school board last year when they ousted one superintendent and within minutes installed a new one from out state who had his bags packed already and they expected the public to believe that this happened as a result of their quasi-judicial public meeting held that day.
It is a slippery slope. I agree with Mr. Galbraith and thank you for presenting his opinion.
SECTION 24. Access to public records and meetings.--
(b) All meetings of any collegial public body of the executive branch of state government or of any collegial public body of a county, municipality, school district, or special district, at which official acts are to be taken or at which public business of such body is to be transacted or discussed, shall be open and noticed to the public and meetings of the legislature shall be open and noticed as provided in Article III, Section 4(e), except with respect to meetings exempted pursuant to this section or specifically closed by this Constitution.
Posted on August 4 at 8:42 p.m.
There are 500,000 uninsured children in working class families who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid in Florida. The working class are stuck in the middle, paying for Medicaid and Medicare with their taxes so that others can benefit from national health care, but they are left out. There is nothing okay about this state of affairs.
Every wealthy retiree in Naples is 'entitled' to every medical whim, paid for by Medicaid. They did not contribute the vast amount spent on their needs. The bill is being footed by the working class, 40,000,000 of whom do not have health insurance for their families.
If your employer cannot supply it, and the vast majority of small businesses cannot afford it, then a family of four has to pay on average $1200 per month for private insurance.
That is more than the average mortgage.
We are a magnificent nation. We can take care of our own. We will insist on it. And we will do it by learning the facts by talking about it. The insurance industry lobbyists cannot infiltrate every blog.
On Naples workers losing jobs say they face uncertain future
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Posted on September 26 at 3:37 p.m.
85,000,000,000 / 200,000,000 = 425
On $35M heading to Southwest Florida for foreclosures fixes