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DeanM

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ZNP

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The irony right.

The government got their dirty hands involved and made banks make loans to the people who couldn't afford them.
That is not what happened.

What happened is that the Banks made mortgage loans to people who couldn't afford them but then sold the loans to investment banks long before they were to go bust (they were balloon mortgages so they could afford them for five years and then the amount due would double each month and so they couldn't afford them then). Meanwhile the investment banks packaged them into funds containing thousands of these mortgages and sold them to pension funds. The banks and the investment banks all got rich. Meanwhile some guy pays $1,000 a month to the bank for five years (60k) and then the mortgage balloons, they can't afford it, they get evicted, the bank spends 10k to repaint and change rugs and now can sell the house again. They didn't lose. Also the investment banks knew that all these mortgage backed securities would go bust, but they had an ace up their sleeve. When this hit the fan the CEO's went to Washington DC and told the President that either he bails them out or else they spill the beans on 911.

Everyone who sold those NINJA mortgages was violating their fiduciary responsibility. They should have all lost their license and gone to jail or else paid a hefty fine and been open to civil lawsuits. The fact that none of that happened is proof of how corrupt the US government and the banking system has become.

The only losers were the ones who got scammed with these mortgages, the pension funds who bought them and the tax payers who then bailed out the investment banks and helped pay for big fat bonuses for the bankers.
 

Kroogz

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That is not what happened.

What happened is that the Banks made mortgage loans to people who couldn't afford them but then sold the loans to investment banks long before they were to go bust (they were balloon mortgages so they could afford them for five years and then the amount due would double each month and so they couldn't afford them then). Meanwhile the investment banks packaged them into funds containing thousands of these mortgages and sold them to pension funds. The banks and the investment banks all got rich. Meanwhile some guy pays $1,000 a month to the bank for five years (60k) and then the mortgage balloons, they can't afford it, they get evicted, the bank spends 10k to repaint and change rugs and now can sell the house again. They didn't lose. Also the investment banks knew that all these mortgage backed securities would go bust, but they had an ace up their sleeve. When this hit the fan the CEO's went to Washington DC and told the President that either he bails them out or else they spill the beans on 911.

Everyone who sold those NINJA mortgages was violating their fiduciary responsibility. They should have all lost their license and gone to jail or else paid a hefty fine and been open to civil lawsuits. The fact that none of that happened is proof of how corrupt the US government and the banking system has become.

The only losers were the ones who got scammed with these mortgages, the pension funds who bought them and the tax payers who then bailed out the investment banks and helped pay for big fat bonuses for the bankers.
All from ignorant government policies and "goals" that were out of reach.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/norber...inancial-crisis-and-made-the-recession-worse/
 

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At least 15,474 Canadians died in 2023-24 alone before receiving various surgeries or diagnostic scans. The true number is likely double.
The true figure for the fiscal year 2023-24 is likely nearly double owing to a “huge hole” in the data... Missing are data from Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador and most of Manitoba.




https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadians-health-care-wait-list-deaths
You do know those numbers are meaningless in and of themselves in that article, but of course newspapers are in the game of selling via sensationalist headlines.

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https://www.ontariohealth.ca/public-reporting/wait-times-results
 

HeIsHere

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The irony right.

The government got their dirty hands involved and made banks make loans to the people who couldn't afford them.
Suffice it to say, crony capitalism (money influence by robber barons) has been in play since the start.
To deny this is to deny reality.
 

Kroogz

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See,that doesn't actually add up to your admitting what you said was wrong.
I apologize for assuming you understood the point of my post. I thought you were playing along with my point.

The point:

The left, in this case, Canada, despises Trump. They call him every "dirty name" possible.

When in reality, Canada needs someone like Trump. Put Canada first. Focus on Canada and make Canada great again.
 

HeIsHere

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I apologize for assuming you understood the point of my post. I thought you were playing along with my point.

The point:

The left, in this case, Canada, despises Trump. They call him every "dirty name" possible.

When in reality, Canada needs someone like Trump. Put Canada first. Focus on Canada and make Canada great again.
We had someone like Trump and we got rid of him.
You know the profile ... I think Jordan Peterson used the word "mendacious" as part of the constellation of traits.
 

ZNP

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And why is that I wonder.... does the USA feel threatened by a country which has a leader who can speak and be cogent at the same time.
Of course we feel threatened, where do you think our maple syrup comes from? What happens if our supply gets cut off? We have all heard stories of things like that happening but no one ever thinks it will happen to them.
 

DeanM

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I apologize for assuming you understood the point of my post. I thought you were playing along with my point.

The point:

The left, in this case, Canada, despises Trump. They call him every "dirty name" possible.

When in reality, Canada needs someone like Trump. Put Canada first. Focus on Canada and make Canada great again.
I understood what you were doing. Sometimes things dont come across as well in posts as they would in vocal communication.
 

ocean

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At least 15,474 Canadians died in 2023-24 alone before receiving various surgeries or diagnostic scans. The true number is likely double.
The true figure for the fiscal year 2023-24 is likely nearly double owing to a “huge hole” in the data... Missing are data from Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador and most of Manitoba.




https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadians-health-care-wait-list-deaths
Then that is a national scandal. Anything being done about it?
 

ocean

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I doubt it. It's been going on for years. That's why people raise money to come State- side. Like I said, free healthcare is no care at all.
Well it was never really free to begin with but the original system might have worked much better before immigrants were all attached to it and received care without contributing anything. Aren't their clinics available to people?