Posted by 101livescan on 11/10/12 9:36am
Msg #442900

Trillions of Dollars for Bank Bailout?

Did any of you hear about this or see this on PBS channel recently?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2012/09/trillions-of-dollars-in-bank-b.html

I disconnected my tv dish while I'm remodeling, no time to watch it any way. I discovered this at a friends' house recently. Oh my, I do not know how I missed it!

Get all caught up in signing work and missed what's going on in banking industry. While we're distracted....

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 11/10/12 9:42am
Msg #442903

IMO this belongs in JP n/m

Reply by PegiT_MN on 11/10/12 10:00am
Msg #442904

Thanks Cheryl For The Info.....

......politics or not......I think it is very important to keep up on what is going on in the banking industry since that directly affects our business as a notary signing agent.

Reply by 101livescan on 11/10/12 10:03am
Msg #442905

Re: Thanks Cheryl For The Info.....

That is exactly why I posted here...many do not go to JP, like me, and this is important industry information for all professional career NSAs who want to be in the know, like us.

Reply by ToniK on 11/10/12 10:13am
Msg #442908

I wouldve never seen in JP

cuz I hate going over. I 99.9% stick to this forum.

Reply by jnew on 11/10/12 4:17pm
Msg #442950

Re: I wouldve never seen in JP

I am with Tony. JP is clearly the black hole of the Notary Talk forum. If only they could find a way to confine the insults there as well.

Reply by Sha/CA on 11/10/12 8:37pm
Msg #442982

Re: IMO this belongs in JP, if there is ever a question

Most posts do not suggest it should be in JP. When it becomes a debate, that's the time IMHO it goes too far.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 11/10/12 9:39pm
Msg #442984

Sha, read the post, read the link...if you don't think

this should be in JP...well, then I don't know what you're reading or what you're thinking.

Reply by HisHughness on 11/10/12 11:30am
Msg #442917

Why do we have to keep fighting this battle?

This, as noted by others, belongs in Just Politics, for any number of reasons:

1. It does not involve a current matter of public policy that will impact our business. Whatever impact it had, it has had for some time now.

2. The bank bailout is a fait accompli, and the subject of intense political dispute.

3. The link is patently, obviously, incontestably politically oriented, as in ""This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you're-on-your-own individualism for everyone else."

Just Politics was created for just this sort of stuff. Whether a NotRot participant visits JPol or not is the participant's choice; that does not mean that anyboidy has the right to pollute our other two forums with political effluent. It is discourteous, rude and inconsiderate to post this kind of stuff in the work forum.

Reply by NVLSlady/VA on 11/10/12 4:43pm
Msg #442956

"subject of intense political dispute"

I wonder what percentage of our topics here fall into this category?? By this definition, no wonder why I put on helmet, shoulder pads, & cleats to participate Here (forget JP). Whether hidden/overt (as in "riddles") or plain as day, most of what I read here relates in some way to a respondent's private agenda . . . 'cause whatever the original intent of the OP was, it seems to go "south," somehow . . . JMHO

Reply by NVLSlady/VA on 11/10/12 4:44pm
Msg #442957

And PBS.org not exactly right/leftwing.net . . . n/m

Reply by HisHughness on 11/10/12 4:53pm
Msg #442958

You can't really be serious

Did you read the original link? Did you read the excerpt from it that I posted? If you did, and still made those two posts, I would suggest a refresher course in comprehension skills, because something is lacking.

It is hardly my personal agenda that is at issue here. The issue is trying to keep this forum for professional matters, not political matters -- and that's true whether the political matters originate on Fox News or PBS, whether they favor conservative wingnuts or liberal moonbats such as I. Harry created a forum to avoid that sort of pollution here; why is it so hard to accomodate him -- and those of us who prefer to keep this place unpolluted?

Reply by NVLSlady/VA on 11/10/12 5:05pm
Msg #442961

Re: You can't really be serious

the excerpt you posted were Quotes from a Senator (which, yes, makes it VERY political). MY question to you is: How can readers/posters avoid "polluting" the site with these references?

I don't think the OP would have any way to control the references made in a generic/current news op ed, right? Don't we reference news and other "data" here rather frequently. I don't think the news is the problem; the commentary following Is.

Reply by NVLSlady/VA on 11/10/12 5:10pm
Msg #442962

As for my level of Comprehension . . .

Now that just might bespeak the time spent with my "company" of late (no personal reference to you, Mr. Hugh, but there are some of us who need more TIME to perceive . . . and that's all right

Reply by Buddy Young on 11/10/12 7:06pm
Msg #442972

Re: You can't really be serious n/m

Reply by Pro Mobile Notary on 11/11/12 2:44pm
Msg #443003

Loans are not necessarily bailouts.

Those loans were all backed 100% by negotiable hard assets like US Treasury bonds and notes. Let us not forget if we did not keep the banks liquid, this country would have fallen into a worse depression than what we went through in th 1930s.

Some of the "bailouts" have worked quite well for taxpayers. We will realize a net profit on our ownership interests in companies like AIG & GM.

From the perspective of a left of center independent person I feel that NPR is too far to the left and their 'commentary' on this issue is too much rhetoric without enough substance in facts.

Reply by CentralNY on 11/11/12 4:55pm
Msg #443006

Interesting Stuff

but some peeps like to be like the high school hall monitors of the forum and I don't mean his Hughness. Pro Mobile read about the Illuminati stuff for the real deal and not just about AIG.

Reply by MW/VA on 11/11/12 8:56pm
Msg #443023

If anyone say the film "Too Big to Fail" you'll realize it

wasn't the banks that got bailed out, but our entire economic system. It was the only option left. Yes, all economic matters are also political fodder.
Like it or not, IMO the stimulus is the reason we're seeing such a surge in refi's. Our economy depends on the banks loaning money.