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Old 03-25-2011, 10:05 AM
 
Location: West Orange, NJ
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Yeah, but don't forget about Abbott. Legislating from the bench!
and the legislature can correct that too. but they don't.
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Old 03-25-2011, 10:07 AM
 
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and the legislature can correct that too. but they don't.
They could still get overruled by the court regardless.
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Old 03-25-2011, 10:58 AM
 
Location: West Orange, NJ
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They could still get overruled by the court regardless.
the court decides based on the law and the constitution. maybe sometimes the courts overstep their bounds, but that's an invitation for the legislature to close the ambiguity in the constitution or the law. checks and balances.
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Old 03-26-2011, 06:17 AM
 
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the court decides based on the law and the constitution. maybe sometimes the courts overstep their bounds, but that's an invitation for the legislature to close the ambiguity in the constitution or the law. checks and balances.
It doesn't matter. Let's say they rewrote the School Funding Formula. The court can just overrule it and say it isn't constitutional.
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Old 03-26-2011, 06:25 AM
 
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You mean the "private" companies who are taxed twenty different ways so they cannot be competitive? You mean the "private" companies whose every move and utterance is regulated to the point of uselessness? You mean the "private" companies who spend most of their resources placating non-productive bureaucrats whose permission they need to stay in business? You mean the "private" companies that can't hire or fire employees without jumping through 35 collectivist hoops that have been placed in their way?

We DONT HAVE private companies. We need to try having them. The first step is to de-governize the entire economy. That means removing government and compulsion step by step by step. Removing regulation. Removing taxes. Removing fees. Removing bureaucratic busybodies. We don't need to return to freedom, we need to discover it.
Funny to hear this from a real estate agent. Combined with bank,mortgage brokers you guys pretty much drove this country into a depression that could only be SAVED by my Govt. Please pipe down as you really have no room to speak on private vs public. Your chosen career track record speaks for itself. Sorry.
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Old 03-26-2011, 09:28 AM
 
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Funny to hear this from a real estate agent. Combined with bank,mortgage brokers you guys pretty much drove this country into a depression that could only be SAVED by my Govt. Please pipe down as you really have no room to speak on private vs public. Your chosen career track record speaks for itself. Sorry.
You mean that same government that lowered interest rates to almost nothing, then raised them way back up 5 years later, just in time to nail people with ARMs?
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Old 03-26-2011, 11:18 AM
 
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You mean that same government that lowered interest rates to almost nothing, then raised them way back up 5 years later, just in time to nail people with ARMs?
Way up? Really have you seen what rates are at and have been at? Actually it was agents and brokers who lied and told people they could afford something when in fact they knew quite well they couldnt. What do interest rates have to do with anything? You are equating what these brokers and agents did to buyers to the govt reducing rates? Um ok genius stuff I tell you.
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Old 03-26-2011, 05:02 PM
 
Location: NJ
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Funny to hear this from a real estate agent. Combined with bank,mortgage brokers you guys pretty much drove this country into a depression that could only be SAVED by my Govt. Please pipe down as you really have no room to speak on private vs public. Your chosen career track record speaks for itself. Sorry.
Give me a break. How much of a complete moron does someone need to be to let a RE agent talk them in to buying a house they can't afford? I would love to talk to one single person who says this happened to them.
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Old 03-26-2011, 05:33 PM
 
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I thought it was the banks? They were the ones just doling out the loans.
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Old 03-26-2011, 06:51 PM
 
Location: New Jersey/Florida
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Give me a break. How much of a complete moron does someone need to be to let a RE agent talk them in to buying a house they can't afford? I would love to talk to one single person who says this happened to them.
Are u serious with this statement. U do not think anyone was told that if they didn't buy now the price will go up and they will miss out on the American dream. I would put the number of morons(as u said) in the millions. Anyway in the defense of realtors it's not their job to dig into your finances, thats the mortgage company(aka Banks) job and they could have cared less if you had a job or not. They just made their commission and moved on. I am close friends with a ex Countrywide mortgage broker, he was making 250-400K a year for about 5 years. He could have cared less if u could have afforded it. He made his commission and was happy. He's unemployed now and in the camp of HATING govt. workers because they have a fairly secure job. Go figure, he didn't even care about them while he was hauling in the dough.
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