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To: bentway who wrote (562263)	4/22/2010 1:29:01 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575596

>> This has ended already. It has been suspended. Not ended. Until the Clinton CRA regulations are superseded it hasn't been "ended". >> No lender was ever FORCED to make any loan. Of course they were. Did the law require it? No. But if the lenders wanted certain "benefits" they were required to do it. "Benefits" without which their corporate growth would be highly restricted. While the FORM was not "forcing" it, the SUBSTANCE was.

To: bentway who wrote (562263)	4/22/2010 6:43:28 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1575596

Obama Homeowner Bailout Program A 75 Billion Dollar Bust The government has no business using taxpayer money to prevent foreclosures in the first place. As Jeb Hensarling has said, We must remember that 93.6% of households rent, own free and clear, or are current on their mortgages...Programs...that force the responsible majority to subsidize the irresponsible minority should be rejected. That brings us to Obama's 75 billion dollar "Homeowner Bailout Program." According to a report by the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the program's a huge failure. Just look at this quote from the report about the "Home Affordable Modification Program"... In sum, until Treasury fulfills its commitment to provide a thoughtfully designed, consistently administered, and fully transparent program, HAMP risks being remembered not for catalyzing a recovery from our current housing crisis, but rather for bold announcements, modest goals, and meager results. "(B)old announcements, modest goals, and meager results." With 75 billion dollars of YOUR MONEY. In private industry, when someone screws up like this, he gets fired. Heck, let's be honest: very few companies can survive a 75 billion dollar screw-up. Typically, when a company fouls up this badly, EVERYONE loses their jobs. How many government workers will be fired for this poorly conceived, poorly executed debacle? Maybe the guy who wrote the report exposing it if it gets enough attention. That, my friends, is why government in this country is slow, stupid, and inept compared to private industry. rightwingnews.com

To: bentway who wrote (562263)	4/22/2010 6:47:24 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1575596

Abortion, Again: Do Babies Feel Pain? Nebraska heats this topic up again. Embarrassed about being the late-term abortion capital of the United States, Nebraska changed the law: Can an unborn child feel pain? That question will dominate the abortion debate in America for the next several years thanks to Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska. Last week, Heineman signed the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act into law, banning abortions in Nebraska at and after 20 weeks based on growing scientific evidence that an unborn child at that age can feel pain. The legislation was enacted as a defensive measure. After the murder of late-term abortionist George Tiller, a physician named LeRoy Carhart declared his intention to carry on Tiller's work at his Bellevue, Neb., clinic. State legislators did not want Nebraska to become the country's late-term abortion capital -- so they voted 44-5 to stop him. The new law will probably spark a Supreme Court showdown, because it directly challenges one of the key tenets of Roe v. Wade -- that "viability" (the point at which an unborn child can survive outside the womb, generally held to be at 22 to 24 weeks) is the threshold at which states can ban abortion. In defending the law, Nebraska will ask the high court to take into account scientific research since Roe and push the legal threshold back further. I have written about this before, from a very personal place. My sons were born at 24 weeks, could feel pain, and felt pain more than the doctors and nurses wanted to admit. Not long after my son left the NICU, the hospital changed a policy on heel sticks (given repeatedly and daily without anesthesia) because they were so painful to the child. This was a "duh" decision to me: I saw my sons silently scream and writhe to get away (they were intubated) every day during the procedure. Of course they felt pain. Only a moron couldn't see that self-evident fact. Do babies feel pain en utero? Yes. For years, doctors have noted that babies avoid ultrasound. No one quite knows why, but it's suspected that the ultrasound waves are at the very least, uncomfortable to them. So, ultrasounds, while performed routinely, are carefully meted out by the best professionals, because they do know that ultrasounds stunt growth and interfere in other ways. If the baby avoids it, there must be a reason. My thought is that unborn babies are more, not less, sensitive to pain. It just makes sense. Their nervous systems are raw and unrefined. They live in a fluid-filled cushion bubble for heaven's sake. I figure it's because the insulation deadens the sensations--the sound, touch, sight, etc.--needfully. The experiences would be too intense otherwise. The fact is, it makes sense that these tiny humans feel acutely. And anyone who has seen a tiny baby, with a beating heart, cannot fathom that they don't feel pain. It is an exercise in denial to haughtily imagine that they are little lumps of protoplasm feeling, learning, expressing nothing. It is inconvenient to imagine a baby as a mini-human. If the baby is a mini-human, the baby has civil rights and should be protected. As the science gets more refined, I expect that people are going to be horrified at what has happened to unborn children. Or, they'll sink deeper into their denial--no one wants to perceive himself as a murderer, little less a pain-inflicting murderer. rightwingnews.com