e put paper with WF and BOA and you cannot get a loan with a Taxpayer ID only. The only bank that does that which I know of is Banco Popular in TX, and we don't write for them.
If a person hands me a social (actually, I don't write many of the loans myself), I am simply going to put it down and send it in. The idea that I am going to go to the next room and try and call some bureaucrat at Social Security (who have THREE DIFFERENT TAX ID numbers for me and have not been able to get their act together on that for 5 years now) to "confirm" something shows that you have no clue as to what you are talking about.
However, most of our loan and insurance stuff is "mature" business. Almost all of what I do is trade people's money. I have a couple of managed funds. I take 30-50 per cent of your profits (my clients scored 68, 32, and 13 percent gains last year after I took my cut), and that is how I make my money. The insurance and mortgages are really just trolling grounds to pick up customers with money, and it's for damn sure that what hispanic clients don't have $15,000 to let me trade (minimum amount I will accept) for them. In fact, anyone who thinks you can make money off the hispanic or black clientele in any city is crazy, if you don't adopt big fees as part of your processing procedure. We don't want to do that (it is not the kind of office we are), so the stuff we do for them is really more on a "we will help you" basis. We don't run big ads in the yellow pages, we don't "loan you money till payday." and we don't put out a sign saying "SE HABLA ESPANOL."
You know, I could care less whom your clients are.
If you are in banking, you have knowledge of money transfers and flows and have an idea of how many billions are changing hands and leaving the country to Mexico through the hands of illegals.
Your relentless Ad hominem attacks on folks who may not be inclined to your open borders, open markets at any cost attitude and who have legitimate beefs with the current situation - are not large enough donors to the Republican party to persuade your partners in crime in DC. Keep on giving, keep up with that attitude and see what happens in '06 and '08. I would be willing to wager it will not be to your liking.
President Bush, either through his own experiences or advise of folks like you is pandering to corporate or self interests above Citizens - aka taxpayers and Republicans.
When the Republican party (RINO Senators)are more interested in giving away free college benefits and scholarships to non-citzens, and are more interested in baseball doping than correcting budgetary issues, reforming retirement and health plans, and the War in Iraq, you know - thinking beyond their next election - if that far in advance, there will be very little sympathy come election time. Maybe bigtime donors like yourself can bail the party out. You can probably get a bean counter to make it a business expense or tax deduction, you know - a cost of doing business.
Sliming anyone who disagrees with you on border issues as a racist or pitchforker really shows your advanced skills in philosopy.
So whats wrong with making the US a gated community? What's wrong with folks wanting to have neighbors and workers you can speak to in your language and not worry if they are a recidivist felon? Dont you want your fellow citizens to live as well as you do? Or do you get upset at an upwardly mobile middle class?
Since you are such a big "Free" Trader - where are the reciprocal trade agreements with Mexico? Why cant I go to Mexico - work and live as I please, with free medical care, vote, drive, own property - bring my family down there - and
open a business, speak english - without documents and without being jailed? Where is the reciprocity? What has the current administration done besides enable one-sided flows of cash to Mexico and latin america? Why has the president appointed a lawyer buddy of his to be ambassador to Mexico - who in turn marries a Billionaire oligarch baroness and refuses to resign his post or even consider the legal and ethical consequences of his personal actions - violating federal ethics statutes.
Dog us as much as you want. We will see what happens to the RINOS and rats in '06 and '08.