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When it comes to Gov. Goodhair, the question of whether or not he can be bought is not IF, its HOW MUCH.

How do they know what is robo-signed and what isn’t? Just asking.

Signatures that are obviously not from the same signer (e.g. – significant variations in a supposed notary’s signature) or (in the case of some of the documents) signatures from a single person claiming to be several people are a big clue, but some of the worst offenders have had their names in the news some as well. I seem to recall a case in Florida in which a single robo-signer signed for 20+ people on a single transfer document (that is, signed as if they were more than 20 separate people), but my memory could be faulty.

Not sure. But it’s obvious that the Rs would like Barry’s entire cabinet run by a bipartisan board. (We may get that in the second term — if there is one.)

I can’t understand why they’d be worried about that. I have difficulty understanding how making the cabinet into a bunch of bipartisan boards of ineffectiveness would make for a more business-friendly atmosphere than what is presently in place.

FEC and FCC just off the top of my head, although they’re commissions, not boards. Pretty much the same thing.

Ah, you’re correct. A pair of boards that seem to continuously be mired in so much partisan bickering that they reliably fail to do anything. Pretty much clear that this is what Shelby & the R’s seek for the CFPB as well, since they haven’t ever been in favor of anything that limits the ability of business (especially FIRE) to screw over the rest of us.

Just out of curiosity, are there any other bureaus that are run by a board instead of a single director, or is it just consumer financial protection that R’s are concerned about requiring special oversight?

Let’s say that the funding per-student is comparable to what we have in TX (which has been somewhere between $4,975 and $9,000 per student in public schools – depending on which district and numbers that were wrong when they were used originally back in ’89 and still haven’t been updated), then the worst-case scenario means that the person in the district that gets $4,975 per student per year would be worth somewhere between $2,487 and $4,478.

For a $12,000 per year tuition at a private school (John Cooper School here in The Woodlands is getting about $15K per student for grades 1-8, by the way, so $12K is pretty reasonable as a working figure), that doesn’t QUITE cover the cost of a year’s worth of tuition. In fact, it comes up about $7,500 short. Remember, now, that the low per-student funding happens most frequently in low-income areas, so it is unlikely that the parent(s) of a student in such a district will be able to come up with an extra $833/month (only paying in months where there is actually a class being held).

So please explain to me how a family that is already in a relatively low-income neighborhood can afford the equivalent of an extra car payment and a half per month so they don’t have to send their child to a public school?

Please bear in mind that the price of a private school’s tuition is likely to increase as demand for the fixed number of seats in the private schools increases (standard supply & demand economics, y’know), so in fact the costs to the family will probably be well in excess of the $7500/year demonstrated above…

•Krugman is still shrill.

Not shrill. Not forceful enough in arguing against the shitty record of Obama and Democrats in the last couple of years, either.

It’s time to drop the Obama/Democrats vs. Republicans bs, Krugman, and to stop acting like Obama’s a liberal, but far too polite to fight. Obama’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing with far more in common with Republicans than the rhetoric would suggest. As the campaigning picks up, let’s get beyond the slogans and flowery bullshit rhetoric.

Nonsense. Obama is no wolf, he’s a coyote pretending to be a wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing. He talks a good line, postures a bit, but when it comes down to it is afraid to fight. I don’t believe he has the principles to be an actual wolf (which would be almost something you could respect).

I would point out that Mike Shedlock doesn’t completely blame the homeowners for this mess. His opinion is that only 20% of the loans are in default and those are the homeowners fault for lying on their applications, falsifying income statements and the like, and that the balance of the problem is really the fault of the Fed for encouraging this sort of behavior.

I guess he missed that part where originators were submitting applications without client signatures, falsifying income statements and proofs for borrowers and more (how else do you get a no income, no money down loan approved?)just to get the paperwork out the door so they could bundle it with other similar imperfect mortgages to be sold to the investors?

He’s absolutely certain that the fraud was almost solely on the part of the borrowers despite the fact that we’ve had requirements in place since the mid-30s for things like proof of income and such that have simply been ignored by the originators.

Indeed they do. There’s a nice little graphic illustrating this at this blog. Their information is based upon data gathered by the Tax Foundation.

Thongs & trench coats for those cooler days… :)

I’d prefer a teeny swimsuit day. The kind I have in mind doesn’t leave much to the imagination. They could search what little of it there was, if they REALLY wanted to, I suppose, but being as I’m a sorta largish boy (~310#), they might decide “EWWW!!!” instead… :)

Men could do the strap-on thing too. Imagine the expression on the TSA agents face as he/she finds two or more sets of junk! :)

Doesn’t have to be a signature font. If I have a document with your signature on it, I can create a graphic in about 10 seconds flat that will be indistinguishable from the original. The only catch is that it willl never vary like real signatures do.

To be honest, though, I don’t know that it will make any difference if Obama runs or not in 2012, because I suspect that the economic crash that is coming will bring about changes that we can barely speculate about at this time. I fear it will be even worse than the Great Depression.

Indeed. Cupidity not stupidity.

The problem is fundamentally the same throughout the entirety of what we liberals & progressives have been saying. Politicians will not do what WE THE PEOPLE want, because it is contrary to what their MASTERS (the monied interests) want.

“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
Malcolm X