Skip to comments.
US mortgage crisis creates ghost town (near Cleveland, Ohio)
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080127183107.ahcwfxrz&show_article=1&image=large ^
Posted on 01/27/2008 5:03:23 PM PST by traumer
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120, 121-140, 141-160, 161-177 last
Comment #161 Removed by Moderator
To: traumer
So where is Kucinich in all this. He created the problems when he was Mayor.
And, he wants to be president?
162
posted on
01/29/2008 9:34:58 AM PST
by
Doc91678
(Doc91678)
To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
“Today’s public school geography student need not fear such judgment. If a student believes Cleveland is in Illinois, who are we to judge?”
So to say.
163
posted on
01/29/2008 10:29:23 AM PST
by
CSM
("Dogs and beer. Proof that God loves us.- Al Gator (8/24/2007))
Comment #164 Removed by Moderator
To: TonyRo76
Weirder still. The age of the no-account.
165
posted on
01/29/2008 8:08:25 PM PST
by
bvw
To: TonyRo76; All
166
posted on
01/30/2008 3:35:10 AM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: kinoxi
“OK, who has the B.S. meter gif?
I had to take out a 2 million dollar loan on my truck for this, so I hope it’s worth it...”
Siphon out the gas in the tank and you can pay it off.
;)
167
posted on
01/30/2008 4:00:20 AM PST
by
Forgiven_Sinner
(For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son that whosoever believes in Him should not die)
To: TonyRo76; Las Vegas Dave
To: boxerblues
< snip > Luc Olinga, a French reporter based in New York who wrote the story for AFP, somehow got his geography mixed up.Mr. Frenchy Frenchmen..!
169
posted on
01/30/2008 2:39:55 PM PST
by
Las Vegas Dave
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton, June 2004.)
To: traumer
Shaker Heights has been decaying slowly for the last 3 decades. It was once a very wealthy suburb of Cleveland, with large, stone-faced houses and lots, plenty of small lakes, and access to the Cleveland Rapid Transit system.
Unfortunately, it's lost its lustre as those with the means have moved on to lower-taxed, less-liberal surroundings in the outlying suburbs such as Pepper Pike & Beachwood.
170
posted on
01/30/2008 2:46:00 PM PST
by
meyer
(Illegal Immigration - The profits are privatized, the costs are socialized.)
To: traumer
"All you needed was a pulse to buy a house. Some loans were written with no money down, no proof of buyer's incomes. They did not even check what people were saying. Most of those folks were jobless," he said in an interview.Were lenders really that stupid, or is someone telling a stretcher here in order to gain sympathy.
171
posted on
01/30/2008 2:47:55 PM PST
by
meyer
(Illegal Immigration - The profits are privatized, the costs are socialized.)
To: kidd
Yep next we’ll hear how Detroit was destroyed by the mortgage crisis, which somehow must be the fault of Bush.
Yep, just a small amount of critical thinking pokes holes in this story. An entire town took out these predatory mortgages and then all were evicted? Yep, there’s got to be details missing. Leave it to the news media to spin this the way they want to.
To: D-fendr
Sounds like she fell for a line by a real scum bag.Sounds like she didn't read the federally-required "truth in lending" disclosure prior to signing it.
173
posted on
01/30/2008 2:55:41 PM PST
by
meyer
(Illegal Immigration - The profits are privatized, the costs are socialized.)
To: Right Wing Assault
Well, it seems as if the frenchy reporter had his head up his butt when he wrote the story...Well I'll be doggone. The actual street address is 9422 Union Avenue, in Cleveland's Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. The Mt. Pleasant neighborhood is anything but pleasant, and hasn't been for years. 25 years ago, I walked the neighborhoods on the east side of Cleveland and it's suburbs (including Shaker Heights BTW) as a meter reader for the electric company. This was a rough area then, as was about 1/3 of Shaker. I don't expect that it's gotten any better.
So while the writer is full of baloney, he's not wrong about the trend in some areas of Shaker.
174
posted on
01/30/2008 3:16:19 PM PST
by
meyer
(Illegal Immigration - The profits are privatized, the costs are socialized.)
To: meyer
175
posted on
01/30/2008 3:47:22 PM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: Forgiven_Sinner
Or hoard the gas for a month or two while the prices go up and take a nice little vacation afterwards. Genius. ;)
176
posted on
01/31/2008 7:56:24 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: boxerblues
This article is hilarious. Oops, looks like the reporter mixed up cities! Shaker is alive and well. My wife and I live there with our two young children on a street, in a neighborhood, that could only be described as “near perfect”. The “stone-faced mansions” are still there, and occupied. It continues to be a neighborhood of choice not only for wealthy households and young families, but also for affluent and progressive younger professionals moving to the Cleveland metro from other cities.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120, 121-140, 141-160, 161-177 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson