For those of you familiar with it, welcome The Fair Housing Act.

http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/FHLaws/yourrights.cfm

For those of you familiar with it, welcome The Fair Housing Act.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/FHLaws/yourrights.cfm

From what I read, if you're over 55(I am), and you have a family(maybe in the future(?)), you're out of luck renting a place to live because the Govt exempted those landlords from that provision.
Is that accurate, Azorus?

--Lee

That is accurate, however that is not where it ends.  The Fair housing act is meant that no one can; Section 109 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin,  or religion in programs and activities receiving financial assistance from HUD's Community Development and Block Grant Program.  This means that anyone is able to own a house.  I choose the word able careful.  In accordance with this program banks set up special departments to get people into house rather than to rent because it was in the banks intrest to have people take more loans out.  This worked against the banks in the end when unemployment/underemployment rose, because they had give so many sub prime loans out to people that just could not afford it.  You know the rest of the story.  In the end it is part banker fualt and part government fualt.  Having said that right now who is suffering from it?

@silverfish, with respect to your Reply #316:

I don't have a lot of time on this borrowed computer, but I agree with practically everything you said.  Well said!

But your last sentence suggested that ordinary people stand up and demand accountability from corrupt politicians(that was the gist)?

Americans often can't agree on a great deal, anyway.  Too many ethnic groups, cultures and different religions, for starters.
Like Israel:  If it weren't for the Arab Muslim presence on their borders, they would be at each other's throats.  I heard a Rabbi say that and I'm Jewish.  He's right; I know what the people are like.

--Lee

Point taken, thanks for replying. What I am trying to say is that we have been artificially divided and ruled through belief, race, colour, religion, caste, political parties, doesn't matter what. We see everything in terms of what separates us and think of ourselves as isolated entities. So when someone is oppressed by the system and has their freedom taken away, we say, that's tough, but it doesn't affect me.
        The problem is that this person's loss is everyone's loss. Right now legislation is actually being discussed to ban free speech on the internet, to infiltrate groups that the government decides are promoting 'conspiracy theories' and use provocateur methods to get them fighting with each other. Loosely defined 'conspiracy theory' means anyone who disagrees with the government and its pronouncements. Suggestions are being made to tax or fine 'conspiracy theorists', whatever that loosely applied term means.
         If you've read Orwell, then you'll remember the concept of 'thought crime'. We'll, we're there already! Freedom and independance of thought are both under direct assault. This is something that affects every one of us, not just a minority.
         Together, we can beat this, divided, we fall...  the idea of a threat is often used to unite people against an enemy, usually a false threat, and a false enemy. Does that make sense? If you are the kind of person that researches and really tries to find out what is happening in the world, the real danger becomes painfully obvious soon enough.
         Ask yourself, if you DON'T demand accountability from those supposedly assigned to protect you, what is the alternative? ZERO accountability. It means they can say and do what they like, and you are considered fair game.
        According to the insane legislation now being proposed, half the people on this forum could be arrested for having 'dissenting views'. This is a fact, and if you doubt it, I suggest you study Cass Sunstein's pronouncements -

http://www.prisonplanet.com/obamas-favorite-for-supreme-court-justice-sunstein-wants-to-ban-guns-free-speech.html

More and more big earthquakes are occurring lately...Do New Age pundits(I think) predict this in their prophecy?

Probably, there's been enough prognostication thrown around over the years to pretty much cover all the bases.

Along the lines of subliminal 'global consciousness', maybe the Princeton Egg has generated some new data that correlates with current events, haven't been over there for a couple of years now:
 
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

I'll have to have a look at earthquake stats, too, now that you mention it:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php

EDIT:

Here's another quake link that might be more informational:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html



Tony

I loved the article http://seekingalpha.com/article/182072-here-comes-the-double-dip-recession
Where some of his numbers are a bit on the extreme, he does outline one thing that is very true that a lot have missed.  If your job losses continue to rise, and job creation is lowering it is impossible to have a lower unemployment rate ie November 2009.  And as his article also points out we will continue to see unemployment increase through most of 2010, because of no stimulus jobs.  Most people will notice that stimulus money has been given to large corporations to create or save jobs, which in November the government no longer made it a requirement for them to track which jobs they made, or saved and to lump it into one number, thus making the number worthless.  Of the 2 trillion dollars that where to be spent on infustruture projects, where is it?

I was only going after the 2 trillion the article hinted at as disappearing, but agreed that it would be more like 4 trillion that would have disappeared in total, if you don't count stupid superbowl ads.  And they will prolly spend it on interest payments to forien criditors, which in turn will make the global economy fall again with the us, when we can not make the next payment of intrest.  All and all a bad situation.  Check out what Maine did today to try and balance there budget, it's on cnn, under us tab.

The article I was refering to was one that involed the governers grand plan to save the states budget for 2011 was to cut half the state jobs, ie schools, traffic repair/control.  in order to cut the States defacet in half.

And no things are not as bad in europe.