YOu said that my "*****" would be right.
You can honestly say that your okay with upping your taxes because someone made the decision to live out of there means?
Rachel, you do not understand this whole mess....it is way too complicated than just as you put it, regarding the helping of people to stay in their homes.....this IS NOT the only thing that caused us to fall to our knees and in to this depression...
Now, regarding me minding if i pay to help those being foreclosed on, which indirectly is HELPING THE BANKS that irresponsibly loaned this money to people who could not afford to pay it back soley for greed and the instant BUCK...which was not good business practice...
My husband and I own our home. We paid cash for it 2 years ago.
My home is now worth LESS than we paid for it....and every day that passes my home is worth less than the previous day.
This is happening because people's homes are being foreclosed on which is putting alot more homes on to the market place....this makes the prices go down for the homes we own...
More than 60% of the very people paying their mortgages on time are now UNDER WATER on their homes....this means that their mortgages that they got to buy their homes, with the bank's appraiser determining the value of their homes, are worth LESS on the market than their mortgages are on these homes.
This has made other people, just walk away from these homes and mortgages because why should you pay $50,000 more for the home on a mortgage than what the home is actually worth....
Then on top of this, you have people that have been paying their mortgages on time, but now have lost their jobs, and knowing that their mortgages are also for more money than their homes are worth and are struggling already, are also walking away from their homes...
all of this putting more and more homes in to foreclosure...putting more and more homes empty on the market....
making homes drop in value even more...
leading to 75% of our homes being worth less than what people owe on their mortgages....it is a vicious downfall, with no stopping it....
sooooooo, i do not mind if the gvt helps people refinance their homes so they can stay in them....
it will help me, INDIRECTLY, by keeping the value of my investment in my home, from continuing its fall in value....
there has never been an economic recovery without a recovery in the housing market....this is what we should have been focused on all along, instead of giving TRILLIONS to the banks and financial institutions and insurance icompanies and billions in stimulus imo, and no where else.
Care