When a person has a home foreclosed on, and that home was insured by FHA (Fannie, Freddie, etc), that person cannot buy another insured home until 3 years after the payoff date of the insured mortgage.
In my case, I have regained employment, regained my credit score, and have the ability to buy, but can’t due to the rule of 3 years.
Remove the rule (or reduce it to 1 or 2 years) and there could be an influx of buyers into the market.
Location: Georgia
In 2008, Jeffrey A. Miron (Ph.D. department of economics at Harvard) has estimated that legalizing drugs would inject $76.8 billion a year into the U.S. economy — $44.1 billion from law enforcement savings, and at least $32.7 billion in tax revenue ($6.7 billion from marijuana, $22.5 billion from cocaine and heroin, remainder from other drugs).
If you legalize drugs, the only people who would bear the consequences of using drugs are the drug users themselves. Right now, taxpayers are paying to control the abuse of increasingly dangerous drugs.
Location: America
Why don’t you introduce some sort of employment stimulas plan for sole proprietors … using a theme of “Sole Proprietors Are People” … not Corporations.
Location: Arkansas
Please ask Romney or Gingrich what these so-called “classes” are. Romney seems to complain of warfare on his class — what class is that? In what class would he say the rest of us are? Is this warfare some lower class attacking some upper class?
I think you know what to do with this issue. Just don’t overlook it.
See you for four more years, Mr. President.
Location: Lafayette, Colorado 80026
Consider this example: a company has a patent in the US; it produces the invention covered by the patent abroad, and imports the invention. With the US patent, this company can prevent any other company from producing the invention in the US. There is something wrong with that!
I think Congress needs to change how compensations for patent infringement are calculated. The compensations must be based on how much money an entity based in the US is loosing because of the infringement. If there is no entity based in the US that produces the invention, there is no compensation, even if the patent is infringed. That should help keeping jobs in America.
Location: Houston, Texas
In order to keep jobs here, there should be a large penatlty or at least a large tarrif to be imposed at the time of merchandise essembled in other countries arriving United States. That way we keep jobs here and keep large corporations and manufacturers from benefiting cheap labor and contributing to the economy of other countries instead of their own.
Location: Fresno, California
This act will allow prisoners that are facing several years to reduce a determine number of years off of their sentence if they elect to be on a donor list. If some required a healthy kidney or a blood transfusion etc.. They will not only save lives it will reduce medical cost nationally. This act will allow a national donor registry from our over crowded prisons. I strongly believe that prisoners will have a higher incentive to donate for two reasons. 1. Term reduction 2. Some will want to do it out of remorse and good will for the wrong that they have done to society. This will help our economy turn around and save lives. Thank you President Obama and God bless you and America!! From Creative Thinker – Rickie Norman
Location: (e.g. Washington, D.C.
“Take Back America” theme so popular with all the GOP, begs the question….”From who?”
1. The obvious answer is the “SuperPacs” and those that support them. Chris Matthews recent survey commentary suggest that 59% of republicand support SuperPacs, but only 3-5% Dems do. SuperPacs are Wall Street personified and we should turn this catch phrase back on them, at the right time.
2. We need series of charts “rhetoric vs. reality”. This administration is not getting credit for its good work and the GOP is hiding the results of the previous 8 years. A whole series of these charts on all the GOP talking points will, at least give those who don’t want to discuss the facts a little more of a challenge defending their position at the “country club”.
3. Romney is very careful to parce his words. That’s why he has such trouble when going off script. In NH and paraphrasing, he said that “this president keeps adding to the debt”. This is technically correct, but disguises and dismisses that 90% of the total debt comes from the Bush era. I put this in the category of “reading the fine print” and can be used to support the way Romney and Bain took advantage of less sophisticated listeners. Cynically, it is also why they don’t really want to support educational reform.
Location: Boston, MA
There is a great article on types of capitalism. Here’s the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/13/opinion/lind-romney-bain/index.html
I believe that President Obama believes in stakeholder capitalism and should let the US know this.
Location: Chicago IL
We enter a critical time for the US economy. If gas prices rise to $4.00 per gallon this year, it will stifle any shot at recovery. There needs to be a directed focus on getting gas prices lowered to an acceptable level (under $3.00) and we can all see the significant uptick in the economy happen immediately. Whether it is increased drilling in the US, off-shore, or increasing deals with foreign countries, I truly believe this is the highest priority to continue to spur the economy.
Location: Fort Wayne, IN
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