Mortgage Bailout on the Way?

Remember the mock outrage of so many politicians last year as the U.S. economic national debt ceiling approached $10 trillion? Last October, when we heard about a $700 billion bailout of the financial system, it seemed like all the money in the world as a manner of speaking. Never mind the debt ceiling since President Obama doesn’t recognize national debt as an issue. Since then, the collective “we” in this country have managed to spend another $10 trillion without accomplishing a thing beyond buying preferred shares in certain banks. The year isn’t over yet (it’s only February 9th) and more economic stimulus is probably on the plate as job losses continue.

How has the nation lost its’ way? A lack of common agreement regarding simple principles and a common vision for the future that makes sense reveals the true crisis. Deceptive flawed thinking among lawmakers portends a real problem for the future as far as the common American is concerned.  Disagreement and strife is the real standard that lawmakers hold to. There has been no presidential honeymoon that this writer can see. We have forgotten what stewardship really is. Hope isn’t on the plate where elected lawmakers are concerned. A divided house cannot stand indefinitely. Perhaps President Obama needs to campaign to the American people to grip some sort of vision….but I digress from this mental exercise.

Another couple of trillion dollars would pay off every residential mortgage in the country and Americans would be home free…literally. What foreclosure crisis? Every American with a home would have a piece of America to call their own without a bank involved. Think of the quick national stimulus  the nation would enjoy as everyone spent their house payment on disposable income and new vehicles, the current blight of lack in the current economy.

The fact remains that the national foreclosure crisis is always on the back burner, yet is blamed as the basis for the nation’s economic demise. Naturally, lawmakers can’t support any kind of quick national housing stimulus that I sarcastically penned because of the $40 trillion plus in potential interest  income that scandalous bankers would never receive because of early prepayment before the term. Any bailout like that won’t happen because it takes power away from the system. Taking money away from bankers would be far too simple while firing and imprisoning financial thieves is too difficult and embarrassing.  Real economic stimulus is far too simple when it comes down to rewarding honest income producing activities. Instead, politics simply gives bankers more money as if that will really solve the problem as they complain about esoteric banking derivatives that nobody knows how to fix. Let Timothy Geithner have a go at this bailout.  Based on what has been discussed, the nation is still looking at investment shell games that are no better than what bolstered the economic crisis to begin with on Wall Street. That is the financial literacy that the Federal Reserve and Wall Street know. ‘Democrats’ deserve a chance to repair the system and they will have that chance.

Can you imagine a retired economist presenting such ideas and speaking in such a way? Remember, it is always about money and authority, but then it always comes back to money and the status quo. That’s all about authority too. ~ E. Manning