If the government really wants to help stabilize the economy and begin owning property by bailing out banks, rather than fixing the root of the problem, why don’t they bail homeowners out directly instead?
They could have homeowners sign over partial ownership directly to the government agency overseeing the transition. What the homeowner is unable to [...]
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So today the House of Representatives went to vote for a bailout plan, which proposes up to $700 billion in spending to help purchase bad debt from mortgages, that was drummed up over the weekend. The results were finally in, and at a 228 to 205 vote against the bill there isn’t going to be [...]
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