Foreclosure Fix

To help prevent further foreclosures and to stimulate lending, I think taxpayers should buy up parts of shaky mortgages. Here is how it would work. Say, for example, a homeowner with a documented income is unable to pay his or her monthly mortgage in full. For this person, taxpayers (through the federal government) would buy down a part of the mortgage principle to a point where the homeowner would be able to make reasonable monthly payments. Taxpayers would now own part of the homeowner’s home, and the bank or entity that held the original mortgage would immediately receive an infusion of cash from the transaction to be used for future loans.

Here are some suggestions as to how taxpayers would be repaid: If the home were eventually sold for a profit, taxpayers would first receive their original investment and would share in any profit in proportion to the percent of the home they owned. If the home were sold at a loss, taxpayers would receive their original investment, with interest, before the homeowner received anything. If the homeowner eventually paid off the mortgage, then he or she would have to continue to make payments until taxpayers were paid in full, with interest. The homeowner would also have the opportunity to buy back the taxpayers’ share in the home at any time.

A little known part of the stimulus bill

I was told by a famous writer, artist and teacher (my daughter Cate) not to post long articles.
Here is what Betsy McCaughey, the former lieutenant governor of the state of New York wrote in Bloomberg about the health care provision of the stimulus bill signed into law by President Obama on February 16, 2009. First, $22 billion will be spent (a bad thing) to put everyone’s medical records on an electronic file (a good thing). Also, a new bureaucracy called the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (NCHIT) will monitor your health care to assure that it is safe, effective (two good things) and cost effective (a very bad thing for geezers). The nation faces a $50 trillion bill for future health care, which will break the economy (a very bad thing). Future health care costs need to be contained (a good thing). This is how it will be accomplished. The cost of each procedure and the age of the geezer will be put into a formula. The higher the cost and age, the less likely the procedure will be paid by Medicare or Medicaid (a very, very bad thing for geezers).
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You’re out of your element, Tim

On February 9, President Obama promised a clear and decisive plan to fix the economy from Treasury Secretary Geitner. The next day Secretary Geitner unveiled a plan to spend $1.5 trillion over the next few years, but had not the slightest idea as to how he was going to do it. The market tanked 4,57%. That’s what happens when you give some guy who doesn’t know how to do his taxes $1.5 trillion.

Another tax cheat

It looks like there’s going to be another tax cheat in President Obama’s administration. This might be a prerequisite for inclusion in the Obama team. Senator Dashchle inadvertently, and accidentally forgot to pay, $128,000 in taxes. It was a good-faith mistake, a slight oversight.
Senator Daschle is slated to be President Obama’s secretary of Health and Human Services. He will help design and implement the administration’s health care reforms.

Treasury Secretary Geitner

Tax cheat Timothy Geitner was sworn in as Treasury Secretary by Vice President Biden on January 26th. In his acceptance speech, Secretary Geitner promised to restore integrity in the Treasury Department. Well, at least he has a sense of humor.

Timothy Geithner is a crook

Timothy Geithner is a crook, and he is the dumbest guy in finance. Timothy Geithner failed to pay four years of FICA taxes. When the IRS audited two years of his returns, he finally paid them. He did not have the brains to realize that the IRS can go back as many years as it wants and audit tax returns when it suspects fraud. So he got caught again.

If this guy is appointed Treasury Secretary, as it appears he will be, he will be in charge of your money and my money and the IRS. Do you want a crook in charge of your money? Do you want a dummy in charge of your money? What about the poor IRS agents who audited his tax returns? I guess they will have to join the ranks of 11.1 million now unemployed.

Stimulus Package

I heard on the radio what I think will help the economy get back on its feet.

Congress should provide tax credits to homeowners who insulate their homes, buy energy efficient windows or upgrade their heating and cooling systems. The same could apply to business owners.

A tax credit would immediately stimulate the purchase of these products, which are mostly made in the United States. It would also stimulate work for the U. S. based home building industry, which is greatly depressed. And it would reduce carbon emissions from the burning of oil and coal needed to heat the homes.