It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by wildtimes
reply to post by sbctinfantry
If you can't spend your money on a house, because you can't get approved to buy one due to your status, you buy a car for cash or no questions asked.
Once you have the car, you start building credit on other things, and the illegal part dissapears when your phony ID matches your credit report.
Just because they are illegal, doesn't mean they are broke. It seems your views of the world are jaded, and you don't understand the problem's scope.
Jaded?? Where did that come from? I said I worked among the struggling Central American immigrants, and that none of them lived in mansions.
And your step-by-step from rathole to Escalade for cash or no questions asked....how does that equal building credit?
I have been present when an acquaintance went out, on a sunny afternoon, to get a fake ID for $10. Took him all of about 2 hours from idea to in-his-hand.
I have seen how HR personnel seem "not to notice" that some SS cards are obviously fake. I have seen bank tellers accept those fake IDs to cash checks.
I have known doctors and attorneys from central america who were working as busboys at Golden Corral.
The point of my earlier post was that it is stereotyping to blame "illegals" in a blanket allegation. What the hell to YOU know from the INSIDE about this population?
Big deal, one guy made a lot of money and has a lawyer (a lawyer? please. Lawyers are at the very bottom of the barrel in many, many cases).
MILLIONS of hardworking people are driving beat up old trucks or cars, or using public transportaion, and are sending money home to starving or ill family members on tiny ranchitos where there is no plumbing or electricity, let alone no computer or cell phone. The "rathole dwellers with Escalades" are a different sector of society, dude, and most of 'em ain't hardworking immigrants. They're drug-dealing thugs. The occasional roofer who has a nice truck and nice boots and a nice western hat is not part of that group either.
"Jaded" my fanny.
Whatever.
Try aware, educated, and experienced.
Originally posted by undo
what i don't get is why they don't just forgive each other's and everyone else's debt, wipe the slat clean. and we all start with no debt, and work from there. it's not real debt anyway, so why pretend it's real? ?edit on 19-10-2011 by undo because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by CrikeyMagnet
Since all this money is made up anyway, could not the government reject debts owed on this Fiat currency, and wipe the slate clean?
How has centralized reserve banking been removed from countries before?
Originally posted by warsight
If the Fed backs this American's have every right to torch the banks coast to coast. 75 trillion distributed in the population would make one nice payday. If the banks are losing there shirts let them fall and get the repo like so many american's faced when they could come up with there bills.
my thoughts were interrupted by a racist...
Originally posted by MidnightTide
HOLY BAILOUT - Federal Reserve Now Backstopping $75 Trillion Of Bank Of America's Derivatives Trades
This story from Bloomberg just hit the wires this morning. Bank of America is shifting derivatives in its Merrill investment banking unit to its depository arm, which has access to the Fed discount window and is protected by the FDIC.
This means that the investment bank's European derivatives exposure is now backstopped by U.S. taxpayers. Bank of America didn't get regulatory approval to do this, they just did it at the request of frightened counterparties. Now the Fed and the FDIC are fighting as to whether this was sound. The Fed wants to "give relief" to the bank holding company, which is under heavy pressure.
Read more at:
dailybail.com...
Yes, you heard that right - 75 trillion dollars.....the big 5 American banks have trillions in derivatives...more money then there is in the world. (like JP Morgan 79 trillion.) The banks want the taxpayer to be held accountable.
To me this is huge, why would they move these to a depository arm - they are going to have to show transparency in reporting and accounting. It is my opinion these banks have been insolvent for years, but they have been cooking the books to hide the fact. I guess this might be why they are coming down hard on people trying to close their accounts - they need all the liquidity they can get their hands on.
and personally, I have seen a lot of errors lately with banking ATMS - something is coming I believe (so make sure to have some extra funds on hand if a bank holiday is coming in the near future)