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Rewriting Mortgages and the American Social Contract
The American Thinker ^ | March 3, 2009 | Tom Suhadolnik

Posted on 03/02/2009 11:53:00 PM PST by Scanian

All government programs have unintended consequences. But rarely has a program been so potentially damaging to the American social contract than President Obama's Housing Relief Program. To most homeowners paying the mortgage is not merely a legal requirement; it is a moral imperative. The residential mortgage is also the financial and legal underpinning of the American Dream of homeownership. The President's proposal risks stripping mortgage obligations of their bedrock status in our society.

Government programs to redistribute wealth are unpopular with a majority of Americans. The mythical rich who did not pay income tax (in 2006 the top 10% of households with adjusted gross income of $108,904 paid 70.79% of federal income taxes) and welfare recipients like California's In Vitro Octomom are the sort of issues which dominate what substitutes for reasoned debate on wealth redistribution. We discuss these caricatures because people putting money into the system and people taking it out tend not to know each other. Our federal tax system transfers wealth from one socio-economic stratum to another.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: economy; housing; obama

1 posted on 03/02/2009 11:53:00 PM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian
The magic phrase -- which appears in the Constitution, just btw -- is ''impairment of contract''. Prohibited to the several States, dontchaknow.

And thus, prohibited VERY clearly to the United States by Amendment X.

Not that the Constitution means anything at all to Osamabama and his fellow Marxists.

But, one **can** hope.

2 posted on 03/03/2009 12:15:22 AM PST by SAJ
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To: Scanian

Not one unintended consequence has ever been predicted by a democrat.
Libs are in for a shock when they see what life is like under their policies.


3 posted on 03/03/2009 12:34:17 AM PST by genghis
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To: genghis

since hillary gave the power of eminent domain to china in order for them to contimue buying our notes does it really matter about contracts anymore
or soon to be when we default


4 posted on 03/03/2009 12:54:43 AM PST by She hits a grand slam tonight
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To: Scanian

Great read.

Once neighbors start noticing the effects Obama’s redistribution plan is having up-close and personal and witness those that benefit from it, there will be consensus against it. The potential distrust that this redistribution creates could last for a generation.


5 posted on 03/03/2009 1:06:28 AM PST by lmr
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To: SAJ

When they get rid of the hated rich white capitalists. Who will pay the taxes these parasitic mooching pests survive on?


6 posted on 03/03/2009 3:19:25 AM PST by screaminsunshine (f)
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To: screaminsunshine
When they get rid of the hated rich white capitalists. Who will pay the taxes these parasitic mooching pests survive on?

It's all about lowereing our std. of living to the lowest common denomenator LCD.

7 posted on 03/03/2009 5:46:30 AM PST by central_va (Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
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To: screaminsunshine

Who is John Galt?


8 posted on 03/03/2009 9:01:08 AM PST by SAJ
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