EMERGENCY: SAVE STOGIE!

Posted on | July 31, 2010 | 129 Comments

OK, folks, no kidding around this time, it’s time to help a friend in urgent need:

Home foreclosures are continuing at a brisk pace, according to an article by McClatchy News. Many of the first foreclosures that began three years ago, when the housing bubble began to burst, were for subprime mortgages. Now, however, a fresh batch of foreclosures is occurring because people have lost their jobs and can’t pay them. I am now in that category. I didn’t pay my July mortgage payment and probably will miss August as well. I haven’t been answering the phone, which rings constantly from bill collectors.
Our savings kept us afloat for a year. When it was gone, I borrowed the equity out of my life insurance. That’s gone too. We were hoping to ride out this recession, to survive until it was over. However, it is the longest lasting and deepest recession I have ever seen. . . . .
It’s just a matter of weeks before I lose my home. . . . I am a college graduate and a CPA. Accountants were supposed to be immune from unemployment. Not any more. . . .

GO HIT STOGIE’S TIP JAR NOW! Every $5 or $10 helps, folks. This post will be sticky at the top of the page for a couple of days, and I’ll urge my blogger friends to join this campaign.

UPDATE: Thanks to Bob Belvedere at Camp of the Saints, Red at Caught Him With a Corndog, Pete at Da Tech Guy and Fisherville Mike for joining Operation Save Stogie.

Coincidentally or not, the news today highlights how Obamanomics has failed to address the kind of situation Stogie is facing. Here’s a Huffington Post headline:

Dwindling Retirement Savings ‘Undiscussed Explosive Bomb’ Of Recession
. . . Aside from stagnant wages, soaring unemployment and plummeting home values, the major tragedy of this recession is the havoc it has wreaked on the retirement incomes of millions of Americans who have planned and saved their entire lives, only to watch that money drain out of their accounts much sooner than they anticipated.
Retirement statistics are grim. The percentage of American workers who said they have less than $10,000 in savings grew to 43 percent in 2010, according to a recent survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. . . .

And even liberals like Chris Hayes of the Nation are now denouncing the “HAMP” mortgage-adjustment program as “the single biggest failure of the Obama Administration” — which is some pretty stiff competition!

Stogie says thanks to those who’ve hit his tip jar during this emergency, and if you haven’t contributed yet, please do so today.

UPDATE: Georgia homegirl Obi’s Sister joins the campaign.

Category: Blogging, Economics, Saberpoint

Comments

129 Responses to “EMERGENCY: SAVE STOGIE!”

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Jeff Weimer
July 31st, 2010 @ 8:33 pm

Typical y4e. No argument, so you revert to calling names. You should have quit while you were behind.

You also refuse to understand my point, which makes my point quite nicely.

Let me spell it out for you. You are arguing with what you think we are like. It is not a “fact” that Pat’s behavior is “conservative”, except in your mind. That’s called an opinion. And his behavior is more properly termed “despicable”.

Open your eyes and open your mind. We are not the bogeymen you think. You really should start evaluating facts rather than letting MSNBC, Kos, TPM, and HuffPo do it for you, badly. You just might be able to let go some of that impotent rage.
Jeff Weimer
July 31st, 2010 @ 4:33 pm

Typical y4e. No argument, so you revert to calling names. You should have quit while you were behind.

You also refuse to understand my point, which makes my point quite nicely.

Let me spell it out for you. You are arguing with what you think we are like. It is not a “fact” that Pat’s behavior is “conservative”, except in your mind. That’s called an opinion. And his behavior is more properly termed “despicable”.

Open your eyes and open your mind. We are not the bogeymen you think. You really should start evaluating facts rather than letting MSNBC, Kos, TPM, and HuffPo do it for you, badly. You just might be able to let go some of that impotent rage.
kansas
July 31st, 2010 @ 8:49 pm

Kansas, so sad…
You’re so obsessed with playing the race card. I know buddy, white folks have it so bad in this country….

4 eyes. You are so blind you must have no eyes.
Yeah, like your Obama buddies don’t play the race card. Pick a card, any card. The race card.
kansas
July 31st, 2010 @ 4:49 pm

Kansas, so sad…
You’re so obsessed with playing the race card. I know buddy, white folks have it so bad in this country….

4 eyes. You are so blind you must have no eyes.
Yeah, like your Obama buddies don’t play the race card. Pick a card, any card. The race card.
kansas
July 31st, 2010 @ 8:50 pm

Oh,BTW 4 eyes, better get over to LGF and hit the tip jar or it’s gonna go bye bye too, like True/Slant.
kansas
July 31st, 2010 @ 4:50 pm

Oh,BTW 4 eyes, better get over to LGF and hit the tip jar or it’s gonna go bye bye too, like True/Slant.
Kojocaro
July 31st, 2010 @ 8:53 pm

pat fuck off and put a bullet in your spine and btw Y4E now you know how it feels when your cronies play the race card and btw sean penn is coming out with a new movie to make valerie plame look sympathetic because bush twisted intel to make iraq look bad to please his jewish masters…………right jew hating cumbucket sean ”chavez makes my leg tingle” penn
Kojocaro
July 31st, 2010 @ 4:53 pm

pat fuck off and put a bullet in your spine and btw Y4E now you know how it feels when your cronies play the race card and btw sean penn is coming out with a new movie to make valerie plame look sympathetic because bush twisted intel to make iraq look bad to please his jewish masters…………right jew hating cumbucket sean ”chavez makes my leg tingle” penn
young4eyes
July 31st, 2010 @ 10:05 pm

Whoa Kojo, easy on the Limbaugh there.Now I know how it feels when my “cronies” play the race card?
No, I don’t know how it feels because what you guys are doing is a whole other level of playing that card.Can you say “Willie Horton”?
I guess you and Kansas come from the same neck of the woods.That would be the redneck of the woods.This post was about helping a friend out and Kansas had to inject race into it because, well, because it makes him feel better.
Kojo just needed somewhere to spew his raving nonsense.Man, meth is one hell of a drug…
young4eyes
July 31st, 2010 @ 6:05 pm

Whoa Kojo, easy on the Limbaugh there.Now I know how it feels when my “cronies” play the race card?
No, I don’t know how it feels because what you guys are doing is a whole other level of playing that card.Can you say “Willie Horton”?
I guess you and Kansas come from the same neck of the woods.That would be the redneck of the woods.This post was about helping a friend out and Kansas had to inject race into it because, well, because it makes him feel better.
Kojo just needed somewhere to spew his raving nonsense.Man, meth is one hell of a drug…
young4eyes
July 31st, 2010 @ 10:14 pm

“You are arguing with what you think we are like. It is not a “fact” that Pat’s behavior is “conservative”, except in your mind.”
Hey, I’m just going by what your side claims it represents. Pat’s attitude is entirely consistent with Conservative policy: Healthcare–screw them. Unemployment–screw them. Katrina–screw them.

“That’s called an opinion. And his behavior is more properly termed “despicable”.”
Yeah, I agree its despicable. That is why I am not a Conservative. I’m ont standing up for the guy. Just pointing out a curious irony.
BTW, I look forward to seeing you post an “opinion” as fact, considering that it is what Conservatives do best. Remember when Charles Krauthammer was trying to validate Faux News by christening it ” opinion journalism”? Yeah, everybody bought into that one. But it sheds light on the idea that Conservatives try to legislate on “opinion”, hence the anti-gay propositions. Not to mention how Conservatives are so enamored with “opinion polls” to fight legislation they don’t like.
Yeah, Jeff. Keep preaching to me about opinions…
young4eyes
July 31st, 2010 @ 6:14 pm

“You are arguing with what you think we are like. It is not a “fact” that Pat’s behavior is “conservative”, except in your mind.”
Hey, I’m just going by what your side claims it represents. Pat’s attitude is entirely consistent with Conservative policy: Healthcare–screw them. Unemployment–screw them. Katrina–screw them.

“That’s called an opinion. And his behavior is more properly termed “despicable”.”
Yeah, I agree its despicable. That is why I am not a Conservative. I’m ont standing up for the guy. Just pointing out a curious irony.
BTW, I look forward to seeing you post an “opinion” as fact, considering that it is what Conservatives do best. Remember when Charles Krauthammer was trying to validate Faux News by christening it ” opinion journalism”? Yeah, everybody bought into that one. But it sheds light on the idea that Conservatives try to legislate on “opinion”, hence the anti-gay propositions. Not to mention how Conservatives are so enamored with “opinion polls” to fight legislation they don’t like.
Yeah, Jeff. Keep preaching to me about opinions…
left coast rebel
July 31st, 2010 @ 10:21 pm

Any of you here that:

a)don’t have anything nice to say, or

b), actually revel in someone’s hard times are douchenozzles of the highest order (and that’s sayin’ it nice).

I’m going to do what I can to help – and that has nothing to do with politics.

So shut your goddamned mouth if you don’t have anything nice to say.
left coast rebel
July 31st, 2010 @ 6:21 pm

Any of you here that:

a)don’t have anything nice to say, or

b), actually revel in someone’s hard times are douchenozzles of the highest order (and that’s sayin’ it nice).

I’m going to do what I can to help – and that has nothing to do with politics.

So shut your goddamned mouth if you don’t have anything nice to say.
NVA Patriot
July 31st, 2010 @ 10:28 pm

All,

Please donate.

People like Pat are not worth the typing time. Donating is. I don’t know this person at all, nor have I ever read his blog prior to today.

Pat wins everytime we let our fellow Americans down. If we want limited government, we need to show the Pat’s what free people do when there is crisis. We don’t turn it into a power grab.

We respond, we pray, we show that government fails and free people do not.

And just for the record – actions taken by the Obama adinistration have directly reduced the revenue of my employer by 25%. There will be obvious impacts to many others as the ripple effect affects 35 communities where we have staff who have lost their jobs. Others have accepted significant wage cuts or retired or become consultants – 1099 staff who unburden the company of overhead.

To stop what’s happening we need to change who’s in Washington

Our stategy is simple, first we win 2010 – flip congress and the Senate and capture a majority of states to control redistricting.

Next we work hard in 2011 to replace the RINOs. Every RINO gets a primary – Why? It forces establishment RINOs to spend money. We starve the establishment, we don’t volunteer for them in Primaries and we don’t give them money. Even when we don’t win, we force them to concentrate carefully when they reach across the aisle to socialists

In 2012, we hit the Dems again, replacing more or gerrymandering their districts out of existance. We take the Presidency. With the congress and Presidency in hand we have 1 vote – The healthcare bill, financial reform bill, and the remaining TARP funds are repealed/taken from the President

In 2013 we repeat 2011 and up the game by going after liberal judges. For any judge who cites foreign law we go for impeachment. For those we cannot impeach, we defund their court. For those who don’t get teh message – we do what the founders did with teh Judicial act and reoprganize the courts out of existance, e.g the ninth court gets cut up to exist only in San Francisco.

2014 we attack again, and we push to repeal the amendments that made the income tax possible and took away the State’s seat at the table – we mandate 1 Senator from each state must be selected by the legislature of each state

Let’s get to work
NVA Patriot
July 31st, 2010 @ 6:28 pm

All,

Please donate.

People like Pat are not worth the typing time. Donating is. I don’t know this person at all, nor have I ever read his blog prior to today.

Pat wins everytime we let our fellow Americans down. If we want limited government, we need to show the Pat’s what free people do when there is crisis. We don’t turn it into a power grab.

We respond, we pray, we show that government fails and free people do not.

And just for the record – actions taken by the Obama adinistration have directly reduced the revenue of my employer by 25%. There will be obvious impacts to many others as the ripple effect affects 35 communities where we have staff who have lost their jobs. Others have accepted significant wage cuts or retired or become consultants – 1099 staff who unburden the company of overhead.

To stop what’s happening we need to change who’s in Washington

Our stategy is simple, first we win 2010 – flip congress and the Senate and capture a majority of states to control redistricting.

Next we work hard in 2011 to replace the RINOs. Every RINO gets a primary – Why? It forces establishment RINOs to spend money. We starve the establishment, we don’t volunteer for them in Primaries and we don’t give them money. Even when we don’t win, we force them to concentrate carefully when they reach across the aisle to socialists

In 2012, we hit the Dems again, replacing more or gerrymandering their districts out of existance. We take the Presidency. With the congress and Presidency in hand we have 1 vote – The healthcare bill, financial reform bill, and the remaining TARP funds are repealed/taken from the President

In 2013 we repeat 2011 and up the game by going after liberal judges. For any judge who cites foreign law we go for impeachment. For those we cannot impeach, we defund their court. For those who don’t get teh message – we do what the founders did with teh Judicial act and reoprganize the courts out of existance, e.g the ninth court gets cut up to exist only in San Francisco.

2014 we attack again, and we push to repeal the amendments that made the income tax possible and took away the State’s seat at the table – we mandate 1 Senator from each state must be selected by the legislature of each state

Let’s get to work
selfanalyst
July 31st, 2010 @ 10:46 pm

My definition of conservative: I earned it, I get to keep most of it and do as I please with it. Event though I am currently forced to give more than I think is fair to the government, I choose to give a small portion of the remaining funds to Stogie.
selfanalyst
July 31st, 2010 @ 6:46 pm

My definition of conservative: I earned it, I get to keep most of it and do as I please with it. Event though I am currently forced to give more than I think is fair to the government, I choose to give a small portion of the remaining funds to Stogie.
young4eyes
July 31st, 2010 @ 10:47 pm

“actions taken by the Obama adinistration have directly reduced the revenue of my employer by 25%.”
OK. What actions?I love how BO gets blamed for the failures of the free market…
young4eyes
July 31st, 2010 @ 6:47 pm

“actions taken by the Obama adinistration have directly reduced the revenue of my employer by 25%.”
OK. What actions?I love how BO gets blamed for the failures of the free market…
The War Planner
July 31st, 2010 @ 11:02 pm

Stacy,

The above badinage notwithstanding, I hit the tip jar. will stop back by Saber Point’s site from time to time as limited funds permit.

The War Planner
The War Planner
July 31st, 2010 @ 7:02 pm

Stacy,

The above badinage notwithstanding, I hit the tip jar. will stop back by Saber Point’s site from time to time as limited funds permit.

The War Planner
just a conservative girl
July 31st, 2010 @ 11:42 pm

Wish I could help this week, but I can’t. I will go back in a few weeks and help out then. I will also link.

And no 4 eyes, conservatives values are that you help your own. He is a conservative blogger in trouble, so we will help. Those are our values, we don’t let people suffer.
just a conservative girl
July 31st, 2010 @ 7:42 pm

Wish I could help this week, but I can’t. I will go back in a few weeks and help out then. I will also link.

And no 4 eyes, conservatives values are that you help your own. He is a conservative blogger in trouble, so we will help. Those are our values, we don’t let people suffer.
kansas
July 31st, 2010 @ 11:46 pm

I just love democrat stooges on conservative sites. You know, 4 eyes sounds a little like poster on LGF called Jimmah. Now I’m gonna hit the tip jar.
kansas
July 31st, 2010 @ 7:46 pm

I just love democrat stooges on conservative sites. You know, 4 eyes sounds a little like poster on LGF called Jimmah. Now I’m gonna hit the tip jar.
SDN
August 1st, 2010 @ 12:03 am

Christ commanded us to give as we are able. The parable of the Widow’s Mite is instructive. What no Libtard has ever been able to point out to me is where Christ ever endorsed charity by government coercion.
SDN
July 31st, 2010 @ 8:03 pm

Christ commanded us to give as we are able. The parable of the Widow’s Mite is instructive. What no Libtard has ever been able to point out to me is where Christ ever endorsed charity by government coercion.
mghorning
August 1st, 2010 @ 1:23 am

I give to people on the street corners trying to het home. I can give to a conservative blogger.
mghorning
July 31st, 2010 @ 9:23 pm

I give to people on the street corners trying to het home. I can give to a conservative blogger.
NVA Patriot
August 1st, 2010 @ 1:35 am

4 eyes –

Don’t bring knives to gun fights

Barak Obama through executive order has started firing government contractors. It is called in-sourcing. Sounds innocuous – like all Orwellian words from this administration – it is devastating.

Government agencies are required to convert contractor positions to government positions. The bureaucracy is complying. They are firing contractors and opening gov jobs. The problem is that the gov hiring process takes at least 90 days and can take 1 year or more. So contractor fired, no gov employee hired. When the gov does hire, they try to fill the positions with significantly lower qualified people. The contractor staff do not take the jobs because as soon as the folks are fired they either retire, move, or take other jobs at reduced pay, but pay hire than what the gocv now offers. It’s effectively forced impoverishment. Further, in the gap of 90 days to 1 year critical actions supporting the war on terror, medical testing, or other activities don’t take place. The problems ripple quickly. Inside the company, there are now more people being carried on overhead (eating profits and taking companies into the RED) – the company loses value.

As the company loses value its credit lines dry up – that would be because the government under Barak Obama is redoing all the financial regs making lenders uncertain about the future. Now the company’s cash on-hand begins to be used, depleting cash reserves. If it is a public company, the board and shareholders force management to cut expenses until cash is not being depleted.

Barak Obam’s executive order creates the unemployment – directly. Barak Obama’s finance law, rammed through congress against the will and full knowledge of the people, indirectly increasing the unemployment.

President Obama could, through executive order, undo in-sourcing and improve employment by a full point. Government jobs reduce the productivity of the society and the individual. Contractors who work for the government perform most of the work – that’s why when the government employees all stayed home through this winter’s storms, nothing bad happened. Barak’s in-sourcing hasn’t started and the people who do the work were covering the bases – often with uncompensated overtime.

Care offer more wisdom? Young4eyes is your handle – might I suggest you change it to young4no-brains-much-ignorance
NVA Patriot
July 31st, 2010 @ 9:35 pm

4 eyes –

Don’t bring knives to gun fights

Barak Obama through executive order has started firing government contractors. It is called in-sourcing. Sounds innocuous – like all Orwellian words from this administration – it is devastating.

Government agencies are required to convert contractor positions to government positions. The bureaucracy is complying. They are firing contractors and opening gov jobs. The problem is that the gov hiring process takes at least 90 days and can take 1 year or more. So contractor fired, no gov employee hired. When the gov does hire, they try to fill the positions with significantly lower qualified people. The contractor staff do not take the jobs because as soon as the folks are fired they either retire, move, or take other jobs at reduced pay, but pay hire than what the gocv now offers. It’s effectively forced impoverishment. Further, in the gap of 90 days to 1 year critical actions supporting the war on terror, medical testing, or other activities don’t take place. The problems ripple quickly. Inside the company, there are now more people being carried on overhead (eating profits and taking companies into the RED) – the company loses value.

As the company loses value its credit lines dry up – that would be because the government under Barak Obama is redoing all the financial regs making lenders uncertain about the future. Now the company’s cash on-hand begins to be used, depleting cash reserves. If it is a public company, the board and shareholders force management to cut expenses until cash is not being depleted.

Barak Obam’s executive order creates the unemployment – directly. Barak Obama’s finance law, rammed through congress against the will and full knowledge of the people, indirectly increasing the unemployment.

President Obama could, through executive order, undo in-sourcing and improve employment by a full point. Government jobs reduce the productivity of the society and the individual. Contractors who work for the government perform most of the work – that’s why when the government employees all stayed home through this winter’s storms, nothing bad happened. Barak’s in-sourcing hasn’t started and the people who do the work were covering the bases – often with uncompensated overtime.

Care offer more wisdom? Young4eyes is your handle – might I suggest you change it to young4no-brains-much-ignorance
Natedawg
August 1st, 2010 @ 2:05 am

“I love how BO gets blamed for the failures of the free market…”

When he actively seeks to undermine the free market he deserves plenty of blame.
Stogie, please accept my $10.00 of free will and free markets!
Natedawg
July 31st, 2010 @ 10:05 pm

“I love how BO gets blamed for the failures of the free market…”

When he actively seeks to undermine the free market he deserves plenty of blame.
Stogie, please accept my $10.00 of free will and free markets!
Taxpayer
August 1st, 2010 @ 3:33 am

There is nothing wrong with being charitable. But the minute people are forced to give, it stops becoming charity.
Taxpayer
July 31st, 2010 @ 11:33 pm

There is nothing wrong with being charitable. But the minute people are forced to give, it stops becoming charity.
Estragon
August 1st, 2010 @ 5:12 am

The left is always most generous with other people’s money.

My thoughts and prayers for Stogie – I’m a victim of Obamanomics myself, and can relate to the dilemma of 50-somethings suddenly unemployed. Those of us in management positions face employers who would prefer to promote from within, building their own farm system for less money than “free agency” while also avoiding the pitfalls of hiring older workers: more medical claims, shorter time to retirement, etc. Even experience is discounted, because many prefer to have managers trained in their own systems, and don’t want outsiders rocking the boat.
Estragon
August 1st, 2010 @ 1:12 am

The left is always most generous with other people’s money.

My thoughts and prayers for Stogie – I’m a victim of Obamanomics myself, and can relate to the dilemma of 50-somethings suddenly unemployed. Those of us in management positions face employers who would prefer to promote from within, building their own farm system for less money than “free agency” while also avoiding the pitfalls of hiring older workers: more medical claims, shorter time to retirement, etc. Even experience is discounted, because many prefer to have managers trained in their own systems, and don’t want outsiders rocking the boat.
Rob
August 1st, 2010 @ 5:25 am

Y4E,

The regulation I prefer from the government in regards to business is “Natural Selection Legislation”.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell — it doesn’t work otherwise.” Jim Rogers
Rob
August 1st, 2010 @ 1:25 am

Y4E,

The regulation I prefer from the government in regards to business is “Natural Selection Legislation”.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell — it doesn’t work otherwise.” Jim Rogers
Kojocaro
August 1st, 2010 @ 1:28 pm

and youngforeskin i lve how bush gets blamed for everything that goes wong despitethe fact he has not been prez for 19 months btw we might suffer a famine by the end of this year anyways
Kojocaro
August 1st, 2010 @ 9:28 am

and youngforeskin i lve how bush gets blamed for everything that goes wong despitethe fact he has not been prez for 19 months btw we might suffer a famine by the end of this year anyways
mRed
August 1st, 2010 @ 2:25 pm

Too many fools trying to make points here in the comments. A man (and his family) is down and needs help. I’m helping now and arguing the points later. BTW, blame Bush for my bad.
mRed
August 1st, 2010 @ 10:25 am

Too many fools trying to make points here in the comments. A man (and his family) is down and needs help. I’m helping now and arguing the points later. BTW, blame Bush for my bad.
The Mexican
August 1st, 2010 @ 2:37 pm

Done
The Mexican
August 1st, 2010 @ 10:37 am

Done
Kojocaro
August 1st, 2010 @ 2:54 pm

Wrong*

btw where is that crapweasel youngforeskin?
Kojocaro
August 1st, 2010 @ 10:54 am

Wrong*

btw where is that crapweasel youngforeskin?