Do you mean that the name of the teacher and their salary is on-line? Wow. I wouldn’t like that if I were a teacher.

I am glad to hear that the unions have been pumping money into WI. They need to do that. The 25-1 I’ve been hearing was on the Ed Show. He has been pounding the DNC for money. I think it will be close and depend on the vote.

Government unions is something Obama does not like, but will not say so until after the election. He carefully avoided both WI and that issue. Government workers are the only sector to have maintained their salaries and pensions while the private sector (airlines for example) had their pensions thrown into the company pot to pay the CEO’s their millions. Walker fat cats have spent 25 to 1 in WI. Like the election in November, this one depends on the vote. Teachers are being attacked in WI. One school district published teacher names and salaries. Charter profit schools will replace public education. Forget becoming a teacher in the future or a government employee if you want a living wage and perks.

MSNBC with the Progressive crew are the middle 99%. Crowley and her ilk are the front for the fat cats. Forget Their master and they are fired. Then there are the red states who think the fat cats mean well for them. hahaha

In response to the quote of Ed Schultz last night that 39% of union members will vote for Walker, someone responded a union member voting for Walker is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders. Very disturbing if Walker beats this recall.

CA is the only place in the world that refuses to tax oil depletion. They ignore the ability to transfer commercial real estate without triggering a new assessment since 1978. Despite the large number of people with college degrees, the comments section of CA papers are dominated by the ignorant arrogant right who look forward to all collapse of government. Obstruction began with Prop. 13. Initiatives cater to the wealthy from anywhere in the world and change the state constitution. The miracle is that CA has lasted as long as it has without death from lack of police, firefighters and infrastructure. CA has been the right-wing petri dish.

In California residential real estate transactions rely on the title company. Our local paper is full of righties blaming the victim and writing FOX talking points, but they have no understanding of real estate. Last week the Attorney General was to speak at the State Legislature about a few laws that would begin to improve the situation like limiting robo-signing. They shouted her down and she had to leave without speaking. The County Department of Records says they only record documents, but do not look for fraud.
Can we ever return to a the rule of law with these crazy people obstructing and destroying government?

The word is “caregiver” and applies to anyone giving care for either children or elderly. That is way too much of a socialist plot for anyone in DC to enact as legislation.

I wrote to the Sacramento County Department of Records volunteering to look for fraud in their Real Estate Mortgage Deeds and Notes. They wrote back that they do not represent the quality of what they record. The other problem is that many mortgage transfers were done without records or recordings. Good for the people of Greensboro, NC who want to have an honest record of property transfers that goes back 230 years. Also they are willing to sue the banks when they find fraud. Sacramento County, not so much. Thanks for your hard work DD.

Home value is what a willing buyer is able to pay. That value where I live is less than half the value at the peak when we had money flowing based on fraud. Those trapped when the values crashed will move on one way or another. Life changes. Homes need to be sold. The fat cats can pick their poison. Redo the mortgage so home-owners can afford it and are not throwing good money into a bottomless pit. “Short sale” it to the bigger fool while the home-owner rents or moves. Foreclose with all the servicing crimes they are trying to correct. Meanwhile we have no accurate records of who bought the fraudulent mortgages. What happens when 3 pension funds or investors claim they own the mortgages, but have no paperwork to prove it? Banks and fat cats rule. That is the message. Ask them if they care? Their personal commissions were off-shored long ago. Welcome to chaos, crime, fog and mirrors.

You are misinformed. The number of people who can not comply with the voter suppression laws equal the percent that elected Obama. Get it?

In the real world Wall Street and the idiots in DC who seem to know nothing about mortgages would be bankrupt so quickly they could never inflict the horrible damage we have seen on everyday people. Every idea they have is self-serving and crazy. Who dreamed up an idea of reducing balances on the first mortgage while letting the second mortgage stand? It matches the hiring of pizza parlor people to use their lap tops to approve every loan sent through them before the fake ratings agencies and before the mortgages were sliced and sold with no records kept. Surely those who bought that toxic junk should be aware by now they have been the victim of a monumental crime. I am sitting underwater for six years thank to these jerks with no end in sight.

The gun people are sincere in their belief that if they carry a gun their family and the people at large are more safe. They will argue on my local newspaper comments section forever. Not surprising they would have a sheriff who thinks like them. We need to be aware of our local environment because the courts and local government have been packed with people like this. I hope this case awakes people to the danger they are in even if they are not “walking black”. These people are looking for an opportunity to shoot and are unconcerned about wrong decisions.

In an underwater area like mine at 50% or more, people can’t sell their homes. They can’t rent them to cover their mortgage. The banks are not honest with them. First of all there is a question of who holds the note or the mortgage on the house. The banks sold the loan when it was made and kept no records. Sometimes several places that bought the note show up to collect on the same house. Usually the bank is the loan “servicer”. They spin the owner by collecting massive paperwork, losing it, flipping them around to other parts of the system until the home is foreclosed by surprise. They usually tell the owner they can’t help them unless the don’t pay their mortgage for awhile even if they can afford to pay their mortgage. It is chaos to cover crime. If the home goes into court, the bank servicers fake legal documents. They sell the homes cheap to their buddies. They package foreclosures and sell them to “investors” like hedge funds who will create slums. That is the scam here. I wonder with all the good work on Firedoglake anyone could not know these things.

Fat cats win big time. Instant slums created from their fraud. Those in underwater areas can not afford their mortgage plus taxes and upkeep. They are forced into the rental market where the owners will “bleed” the property taking the rents and ignoring the upkeep. Once nice neighborhoods are already looking like slums with dead lawns, empty homes and walk-away owners.
The compromised legal system will evolve to support the landlords against the tenants. More plutocracy. Righties will wonder what happened to “pride of ownership” and build higher walls on their gated communities.

David Dayen makes all the points that need to be made about DeMarco. He has pushed foreclosures and the profitability of foreclosures over the rights of homeowners ignoring proof for years that the servicing agents were acting illegally after the massive bank fraud and heist of Wall Street. Now we have the sham settlement supposedly done by the Attorney Generals with the help of the helpless Donovan who wants to give banks a free ride while sweeping the problem, the investors and the home-owners under the bus. The home-owning system in the US was subverted to the power of Wall Street. If the GOP wins in 2012, they will restore the power of the rich and let the poor wash down the drain. How does Barney Frank relate to any of that? I don’t want to hear you can’t vote for Obama as if you think there is any other answer. We need to learn to walk and chew gum at the same time.

How did Firedoglake attract rightie trolls with nothing better to do than bash Barney Frank? David has done a stellar job with the mortgage crime spree. He deserves better. Great article David Dayen. If only the media would be so wise, but then we might not be in this mess. The media are also rightie trolls.