Posted on 06/22/2022 12:28:58 PM PDT by Steely Tom
Longtime MSNBC commentator joins the show to discuss the country's political future. Then Midwest Newsroom editors discuss their work to chronicle abuses inflicted on wouldbe home buyers, and Iowa Legal Aid weighs in on what options these buyers have.
Following 26 years on television including MSNBC's Hardball, Chris Matthews has been a primetime voice on politics, national and abroad. On this episode of River to River, host Ben Kieffer speaks with Matthews about the Republicans and Democrats and the extent to which they appeal to working people. Matthews also discusses his alleged history of sexist behavior and comments.
One of the few ways individuals and households who can't get a conventional mortgage can come to own a home is through so-called contracts for deeds. These private agreements are between two parties to buy a house, a seller and buyer. The seller collects monthly payments, but it's not until the last payment that the deed is exchanged. A new investigation from the Midwest Newsroom shows how a general lack of regulation and oversight around these contracts means many buyers end up paying into houses they never end up owning, losing all their equity in the process.
Last, Alex Kornya of Iowa Legal Aid joins the show. Despite Iowa's comparatively stronger protections for buyers, he said Iowa Legal Aid continues to find clients in precarious positions after a contract for deed went awry. He describes one case his team dealt with:
"He was facing homelessness. He had no real capacity to start again. And if he hadn't been able to find counsel to get the forfeiture dismissed, I think things would have been pretty bad for him," Kornya said. "... There's no protection really, except possibly the disclosure laws which are really limited in many ways for enforceability."
Or they could just stay out of my life.
That would appeal to me.
Handouts are popular and will appeal to most people.
Indeed. And sheeple and herd mentality are real phenomenon’s among human beings, as well.
Weird to see his name. I truly thought Chrissie died a few years ago. Guess not.
Go away Chris.
what political parties can do to appeal to working people
MOVE TO VENEZUELA!
Can you imagine this clown barbering around the water cooler about The Good Old Days?
“NO, you putz, I said ‘TINGLE,’ not ‘TINKLE!’”
Dear Chris Matthews,
Here’s what political parties can do to appeal to working class people.
1. Cut taxes
2. Reduce these $6.50/gallon fuel prices back to
$1.50/gallon like they were on Election Day.
3. CUT TAXES
4. Guarantee that the Second Amendment will be
honored and obeyed for eternity
5. Build the wall, deport all illegals and the
kids, make English the official language, and
anybody who doesn’t speak it can’t get in
6. CUT TAXES
7. Get rid of socialism
8. Control inflation
9. CUT TAXES
10. Stop trying to stuff electric cars, solar
panels and wind turbines down everybody’s throat
11. Most of all, stop focusing on everything that
was ever bad in America, such as “Juneteenth” and
“Pride Month” and Drag Queen Shows, and focus on
everything good in America, like Washington’s
Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday (separate holidays)
I thought he was dead. No, seriously, I really thought he had died. I must have him confused with some other liberal talking head.
Have a big picnic and use Chris Matthews as a pinata.
Yep. Reducing the Federal Register by 50% ALWAYS unleashes the economy, drives prices down and supply up.
Doing that plus restoring Trump’s energy and border policies alone would do the trick.
Drop dead Matthews. Hard to believe this tool sat in for Rush on occasions.
I didn’t know PMSNBC can this clown
Spittle Boy, Mr. “Thrill Up My Leg’’ has crawled out from under a rock.
Holy Smokes I thought he was dead.
“contracts for deeds” Isn’t that what Bill and Hillary did with Whitewater? Target older people and “sell” them retirement property. When they miss a payment ownership went back to the Clintons to sell again and again. The tinggler should have mentioned that and maybe people would mistake him for a real reporter.
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