Well excuse me but isn't it about damn time?
How much 'shinny objects' do we need here?
How much can we take in this country? Wow, real actions by real people on the streets in our nation, instead of taking our anger out out the Web, that is doing nothing more than supporting those on the Web...............
As Senfield says: Not that there is anything wrong with that. (Not)
Thousands of teachers, social workers, union members and more took part in a march Thursday against Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plans for wide-ranging budget cuts -- and against the Wall Street bankers they blame for the city's budget woes. Activists reported that the NYPD had arrested several marchers, but the demonstration took on a mostly joyful cast, with colorful signs, raucous chants and even a stilt-walker.
The May 12 Coalition's organizers promised a big turnout of more than 10,000 marchers, and while immediately pinning down the crowd's size proved difficult, at least that number turned out. Demonstrators from the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) alone, which faces more than 4,000 teacher cuts if Bloomberg's budget is enacted as is, numbered in the thousands.
Rev. Al Sharpton, UFT President Michael Mulgrew and an array of city councilmembers and state elected officials laid the blame for the budget cuts squarely at Bloomberg and Wall Street's feet. "Wall Street recovered, hedge funds got stimulated, and now they want to lay off teachers and close day care centers," Sharpton said. "We're going where they sent the money," he said of the march. Organizers claimed the city could prevent budget cuts by reinstating the state's "Millionaire Tax," ending subsidies for large companies that failed to meet job-creation targets and renegotiating city contracts with the big banks. They estimate their proposals could save New York City $1.5 billion and billed the event as a demonstration not just against the Bloomberg budget plan but also as an effort to "make the banks pay."
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Well all I can say is this: glory glory Halleluiah, Al Sharpton, and all the rest of you New Yorkers, and welcome the rest of you for the real deal and the real fight, including the Unions at you know what I say?
Meanwhile, lets all take a look at the truth shall we?
A weak housing market, sliding home prices and pressure on lenders to give troubled homeowners more time to work out new payment arrangements or loan terms have all contributed to the longer time frame for foreclosures. Many banks also have taken steps to revisit thousands of foreclosure cases since last fall, delaying the processing of new foreclosures. The logjam has been compounded by court delays in states like Florida, New York and New Jersey, where foreclosures must be approved by a judge.
In the first three months of this year, it took an average of 400 days for a U.S. home to go from receiving an initial notice of default to being foreclosed on, RealtyTrac said. That's up from an average of 340 days in the same period last year and more than double the 151-day average in the first quarter of 2007.
The delays are even lengthier at the state level. In New York and New Jersey, the foreclosure process took more than 900 days, on average, to run its course in the first quarter - more than three times the average length of time in the first quarter of 2007 for both states. In Florida, one of the states hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis, the process took an average of 619 days in the first quarter, up from 470 days a year earlier. In the first quarter of 2007, it took an average of 169 days for the process to play out, RealtyTrac said.
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It's about time you all showed up. Must be great to have Senator Chuck Shumer on 'your side' New Yorkers to allow the 'foreclosure process to go on for over 900 days.' Now the jig is up.
But hey, don't let me keep the Daily Kossacks from paying attention to this article, or for noticing all the great new 'shinny objects' we have going for us now:
All the total crappy bullshit Republican candidates for President who don't stand a chance: All the OBL all the time fear mongering that is simply keeping us in a state of nothing more than the same crap: No Jobs, No movement forward, more reasons to allow President Obama and Alan Simpson, to cut us to the bone and divide us ever further, to strip of us and the Middle Class/Democrats, of any dignity and to undo the New Deal, and destroy Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid.
I mean, keep writing about Romney and Trump and Palin and Gingrich. That is so much more important than, winning the future isn't it?
Every single day, I see all of this happening on the MSM. For every 100 stories there is one that matters. And what are we doing here? We are all talking about the other 99 stories that do not matter, and then we blame each other for 'not crashing the gates?'
Get over it. Stop blaming the MSM, when you are doing exactly what the are doing.
You want to win the future with President Obama? Guess what is the only thing that matters:
Holding Democrats responsible for their actions. Nothing else matters.
Guess what? We are in the driver's seat. Get used to it. Mission Accomplished. No other Republican can ever say, ever again, what President Obama did: he did the job. Now what we have to focus on is this:
End the endless wars.
No more deficit frenzy.
We need jobs, and we need them now, to bring our troops home to give them jobs.
It is a done deal people.
We have the power, we can make 'him do it' or we can write bullshit articles from now until infinity that are meaningless, and make us just as bad if not worse that the MSM.
That is up to you.
Thanks as always.
Ms. B.