Gov. Rick Scott doing what's best for the people of Florida

[FluffyMcDeath]

What the heck can you do about the cloud of scandal hanging over the mortgage and foreclosure industry? Investigations are just taking too long and things are dragging on - this isn't the way to get the industry going again. Florida needs a way to get things moving faster so Rick Scott came up with a brilliant solution - get rid of the people investigating foreclosure fraud. Problem solved - can we all move on now?

 

[Karlos]

Now that's efficiency!

 

[redrumloa]

That certainly raised an eyebrow here. I hope more comes out on this.

 

[cybereye]

Now that's efficiency!

I agree with that. Obama's administration had created an Consumer Protection Agency. All Florida who feel that their foreclosure are fraud.

 

[Dammy]

What the heck can you do about the cloud of scandal hanging over the mortgage and foreclosure industry? Investigations are just taking too long and things are dragging on - this isn't the way to get the industry going again. Florida needs a way to get things moving faster so Rick Scott came up with a brilliant solution - get rid of the people investigating foreclosure fraud. Problem solved - can we all move on now?

Wow, you have found the great Palm Beach Pravda do to it's massive liberal spin. I knew a circulation supervisor who had to do call backs to those subscribers that stopped their subscription. Typically it was (prior to the Obama Depression) the paper was far too leftist reporting (and the funny thing is, he had to admit that was true). The paper has shrunk drastically since those days to near driveway trash paper. I'll cheer the day I read on the internet that it's folded. Can't believe I once was stupid enough to subscribe to it so many years ago. Palm Beach Pravda started a two week free trial offer on my street last year. I had to call them up and demand them stop throwing it on my driveway, I didn't want to bother 13 more times to pick it up and carry it straight to the recycling bin.

Had a real news reporter done this story unlike the liberal hack (don't tell me the reporter was conservative, I'll laugh in your face) reported both sides of the story on why the two were let go. I suspect incompetence, this should have been wrapped up months ago.

 

[Glaucus]

Lucky for you, you can also read about it at the Orlando Sentinel:
Attorney general's ouster of 2 top investigators raises troubling questions

 

[Dammy]

Lucky for you, you can also read about it at the Orlando Sentinel:
Attorney general's ouster of 2 top investigators raises troubling questions

That's slightly more fair, they actually quoted someone from the office. What the article raises and does not answer is the reason for FL to ask for their resignations. Did it come directly from Scott's orders? Was it done after a dept review? If there was no legitimate reason for them to resign, why do it? If they get fired, they know they have more options then if they resign. What forced them to resign? What are those two not telling us?

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Hmm. Probably stems from this. AGs of 50 states are cutting the banks a deal on the foreclosure fraud. What for you need investigators when you already planning to let the crooks off?

 

[Dammy]

Hmm. Probably stems from this. AGs of 50 states are cutting the banks a deal on the foreclosure fraud. What for you need investigators when you already planning to let the crooks off?

Wow, Obama's admin is deep in this as well:

In exchange, the banks would get immunity from civil lawsuits by the states, as well as similar guarantees by the Justice Department andDepartment of Housing and Urban Development, which have participated in the talks.

State and federal officials declined to say if any form of immunity from criminal prosecution also is under discussion. The banks involved in the talks are Bank of America, Wells Fargo, CitiGroup, JPMorgan Chase and Ally Financial.

Better change the title to, "President Obama Doing What's Best for the People of USA"

 

[redrumloa]

Better change the title to, "President Obama Doing What's Best for the People of USA"

Indeed, the fish rots from the head down.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Wow, Obama's admin is deep in this as well:

You are new here. We have been looking at who funded the Big O for a while and bank friendly policy is not unexpected. The thing is that if the banks thought the GOP had an electable presidential candidate they'd fund him/her too and you'd get the same result. Presidents and elected representatives work for the people who pay for their campaigns, not for the people who vote. In fact you don't get to vote for someone who hasn't already been pre-approved by the real power.

(No, the "real power" is not monolithic. But it certainly is a minority of people. The ruling classes fight between themselves, winning some, losing some, but the majority of the people aren't even in the fight so tend to only lose and never win.)

 

[redrumloa]

You are new here. We have been looking at who funded the Big O for a while and bank friendly policy is not unexpected. The thing is that if the banks thought the GOP had an electable presidential candidate they'd fund him/her too and you'd get the same result. Presidents and elected representatives work for the people who pay for their campaigns, not for the people who vote. In fact you don't get to vote for someone who hasn't already been pre-approved by the real power.

You take this a step to far, but otherwise agreed. All anyone is count the ex-Goldman Sachs employees surrounding a president. Bush was tied to the hip with GS and so is Obama.

 

[Dammy]

You take this a step to far, but otherwise agreed. All anyone is count the ex-Goldman Sachs employees surrounding a president. Bush was tied to the hip with GS and so is Obama.

Then take a count of the former Freddie/Fannie executives around Obama. Wonder why people didn't go to jail over Fred/Fan losing hundreds of billions (maybe a trillion when it's all said and done)? The lap dog media didn't want to do it's job and inform people. Had that been Bush's men, their criminal trials would have been 24/7 coverage on CNN. Wonder why an AT&T guy Ed Whitacre got to run GM when he has never been in the automobile business? Timothy Geithner tapped him after he sold a nearly bankrupt alarm business to AT&T and made millions. The sleaze that the media ignores because it's their team at bat is unbelievable.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Indeed, the fish rots from the head down.

So the question remains - what is Rick Scott going to do about his AG dropping investigations? Has he just rolled over and decided to go along with what the banks want?

 

[faethor]

Had that been Bush's men, their criminal trials would have been 24/7 coverage on CNN.

Unfortunately no. Afterall Bush was the one that passed TARP. So the Republicans too go for payouts instead of trials.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

The lap dog media didn't want to do it's job and inform people. Had that been Bush's men, their criminal trials would have been 24/7 coverage on CNN.

Were you not paying attention through the Bush administration. He was treated with kid gloves through the election, the media went along with the Bush side in the election recount, slavishly sucked up through Enron and his almost perpetual vacationing before Sept 11, the administration insinuations that Iraq was behind Sept 11, and that Iraq had WMDs, etc, etc. Those guys got away with a lot - and the media, when it did mention it, put it on the inside pages while feeding the public sports and celebrity gossip instead.

Wonder why an AT&T guy Ed Whitacre got to run GM when he has never been in the automobile business?

That's how politicians get and give their jobs - back scratching, appointing friends to positions that pay well, whether or not they are qualified. It's plain old corruption and it is endemic in politics (and business). It's the old game of currying favour and buying loyalty using other people's money and it is played by both parties.

 

[Dammy]

Unfortunately no. Afterall Bush was the one that passed TARP. So the Republicans too go for payouts instead of trials.

No no no, Bush who was leaving office in a few months, signed it. The TARP was created by the Democrats who controlled both House of Representatives and the Senate. It was Obama and his boys who administered the money as crony capitalism while Nancy and Harry smiled on.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

No no no, Bush who was leaving office in a few months, signed it.

That's right. Bush could only have STOPPED it. Therefore he is innocent. But then his "base" of the super rich would have lost their shirts in the markets. Don't even begin to imagine he wasn't for it. He knows what class he belongs to. He is from a banking family.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

BTW, think there will be any outcry in Florida telling Rick Scott not to go along with the "Obama" plan to forgive the mortgage crooks instead of pursuing justice and putting the guilty in jail where they belong? Even during that whole deregulated decade fraud was still illegal. Why is Scott siding with Obama? Think the talking heads on TV will ask him this question - even on Fox?

 

[Dammy]

Were you not paying attention through the Bush administration. He was treated with kid gloves through the election,

You must have been only watching Canadian TV, Bush was vilified at every step by the media.

the media went along with the Bush side in the election recount

ROFL! They wanted Gore to win so badly, it was laughable coverage.

slavishly sucked up through Enron

Yet Lay was having birthday party in the White House and the media did pass on it during Enron. Oh wait, Lay did that when Clinton was in power. Funny that, huh? How about the other company, World Com? Oh wait, that was another big Clinton/DNC supporter.

and his almost perpetual vacationing before Sept 11,

How does that compare with the 74 golfing outings Obama has had since he was sworn in?

the administration insinuations that Iraq was behind Sept 11, and that Iraq had WMDs, etc, etc.

Yet Congress who go the same bad intelligence report that Bush got voted for it. As did many other countries who's intel all said Saddam had WMD. So why didn't the media go after the Senate oversight committee members for not finding out that it was bad intelligence? Oh wait, that was the Dems again, funny that.

Those guys got away with a lot - and the media, when it did mention it, put it on the inside pages while feeding the public sports and celebrity gossip instead.

True, when is the last time Cindy Sheehan protest been televised? When is the last time video of coffins being offloaded hit the nightly news in America? Where is the out cry of innocent civilians being killed in Lybia from the media who did their best when Saddam put civilians in military targets? Is the nightly news still giving nightly body counts from Afghanistan/Iraq? Where is the near constant homeless reports we saw so many times under Bush when real homeless rates are through the roof with Obama?

That's how politicians get and give their jobs - back scratching, appointing friends to positions that pay well, whether or not they are qualified. It's plain old corruption and it is endemic in politics (and business). It's the old game of currying favour and buying loyalty using other people's money and it is played by both parties.

They wouldn't have that capabilities if they didn't have the massive size and spending of the federal government backing them. I agree the US government is too large, too powerful and too overreaching. A government powerful enough to give you everything is powerful enough to take everything away.