{"id":28980,"date":"2012-03-03T18:41:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T22:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28980"},"modified":"2012-03-03T18:41:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T22:41:05","slug":"how-we-got-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28980","title":{"rendered":"How we got here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, the current economic crisis is George Bush’s fault. It couldn’t be the fault of people buying houses they couldn’t afford, and especially not these poor people interviewed by the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The eviction from their million-dollar home could come at any moment. Keith and Janet Ritter have been bracing for it \u2014 and battling against it \u2014 almost from the moment they moved into the five-bedroom, 4,900-square-foot manse along the Potomac River in Fort Washington.<\/p>\n

In five years, they have never made a mortgage payment, a fact that amazes even the most seasoned veterans of the foreclosure crisis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Their adversaries, they argued, are giant financial institutions with armies of lawyers that are out to make as much money as possible at the expense of homeowners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d argue that their adversary is common sense, which they’ve successfully dodged, apparently. Yeah, banks are supposed to make money, that’s how they stay in business, and that’s how I have free checking and free banking. But then, what do I know? I bought my house without using a bank, because I don’t like banks either. I bought a house that I could afford at the height of the poor housing market and I don’t have a mortgage, so I guess I should have no opinion when someone buys a 1.3 million dollar home and never makes a single payment on it.<\/p>\n

And obviously, the Ritters have no shame about the fraud that they’ve perpetrated on the US economy, otherwise, why would they allow the Post to publish their picture and their story like they’re some kind of Robin Hood taking on the evil banking system?<\/p>\n

In 2007, my bank went out of business because they’d sold an assload of bad mortgages in Georgia, a year later all of my credit cards had changed banks because more banks had gone out of business because of bad loans. Anyone who didn’t see this coming, was intentionally blind. And if I’m not mistaken, George Bush tried to get Congress to tighten restrictions on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who were handing out mortgages like candy to risky borrowers like the Ritters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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