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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-10-09 11:34 AM Original message |
How would your family finances look if you could "write-down" your "toxic assets" |
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960 (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-10-09 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
1. It would help out alot. I can dream, right? |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-10-09 11:38 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Here? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-10-09 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
3. Isn't that the same as walking away from a mortgage? |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-10-09 11:44 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. perhaps.. but it's also how businesses profit from their profligacy |
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960 (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-10-09 11:45 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Not if the government treated individuals the way they do the big banks. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-10-09 11:45 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. No, it means you thumb your nose at the bank and keep the house |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-10-09 11:47 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Law changes pretty much preclude most of that, but we can dream |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-10-09 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
8. $10,000 would put me in good standing. I am not expecting to get it |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-10-09 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
9. very few toxic assets accept maybe the frozen dinner that tasted bad |
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SmileyRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-10-09 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
10. We have a new section of our local paper regarding this |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-10-09 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
11. I think you misunderstand what an "asset" is |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 08:03 PM Response to Original message |
12. "Bad sex." |
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Generator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
13. My husband bloated after dinner doesn't count? |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
14. Even better how would your finances look if the government gave you $1 million more than you owed. |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-12-09 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
15. That analogy doesn't make sense |
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