Posted on 03/22/2011 7:39:02 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Cut costs.
So the courts profit when people are thrown out of their homes? All the while the courts oversee the process. How is that not a conflict of interest?
From what I hear, 20% of all Florida homes are unoccupied. Too few foreclosures?
The sad truth is that courts and prisons are a cash cow for states.
YES!
wow
I'd say: "Sorry bub; start firing people and reducing your operating costs."
And then maybe laugh maniacally.
hmmm...why do I smell a clear conflict of interest?
I should hope so if there are 20,000 fewer items to process every month. They must be swimming in people with nothing to do. And the thing is, I'll bet the service times aren't any better despite the surplus in manpower.
So, if EVERYONE got thrown out of their home, the state would be RICH...
Uh, ok...
Cut costs, cut benefits out totally for illegal aliens. Fire scummy judges and lawyers.
Amazing!
>So, if EVERYONE got thrown out of their home, the state would be RICH...
...I see you’ve taken a look at Kelo v. New London.
They just spent $50 million on a fancy new building, and now they are short $50 million. Maybe they should sell the building (which is probably worth $25 million at most) and reduce the salaries to make up the rest.
Facts:
1. Court system spent $50,000,000.00 on a court building? ? ?
2. Courts are making money off foreclosures? Even for
lawyers, that is cold.
Reality: American courts are being run by commies making sure the citizens lose all respect for the court system.
Summation: Justices Cloward and Piven are acting out their agenda again.
$293 million Amount that had been expected from foreclosure filing fees
$72.3 million Deficit blamed on a shortfall in filing fees after foreclosure cases dramatically declined
39,114 Foreclosure suits filed in March 2009
8,205 Foreclosure suits filed in February, the lowest level since late 2006
Ipso facto - less suits, less people needed (including judges) to adjudicate and ensure that the administration of justice is being served. Lay the people off, reassign the judges and shut down the court houses.
Just like nature abhors a vacuum, government abhors a surplus of money.
The courts handled the mortgage foreclosures by bringing in senior judges and hiring temporary staff because the current staff already had full dockets and everyone knew this uptick was only temporary (but with Zero at the helm, who knows, really?).
The Legislature created this crisis by messing with Court funding several years ago in an attempt to create “user fees” but relying heavily on filing fees to fund the courts.
The problem with that is criminal cases don’t require filing fees nor do civil cases when the parties are indigent. There are lots of folks using the judicial system who aren’t paying their own way.
Florida is one state where public servants are not overpaid or underworked and court dockets are full to bursting. It’s easy to pretend this is an easy fix by reducing staff but it’s not.
People are being used as cash cows that feed the greedy states that build these stupid 50 million dollar lotteries in cities and call them courthouses.Those with the most money win the big one at the game of socalled justice.
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