Wow! This tidbit that came out exactly a year later about a Halloween party hosted by lawfirm Steven J. Baum should add fuel to the fire of the OWS movement and lend validity to cries of “class warfare”…. To think that this was encouraged let alone tolerated and encouraged as the “theme” of the party shows the hollow lack of compassion and empathy while showing the arrogance of some boot lickers who want to emulate their bosses’ swag at the expense of someone else. I’m sure these fuckers explanation is “buyer beware” which has been with us since Roman Law…this is where ethics and morality are supposed to come into play in a society in order to assist those less educated, less economically fortunate, and more trusting albeit gullible and niave of us who fall for predatory-styled scams, gimmicks and outright fraud….unfortunately the ruling minority have thrown those childish ideals aside to pursue their desire to become RICH and Famous or pimp their ride or crib just like the t.v. shows they grew up watching on the boob tube have bestowed prestige upon.
The fact that these two women below thought it appropriate and in good taste to clown on Americans who were foreclosed on illegaly and then mock the new “illegal” buyer as a squatter shows the gap in understanding between the majority of the upper 1% (those trying to please their masters in the upper 1/10th of 1%) and the remaining 99%; particularly the bottom 40%. The middle class is late to the party; but, with shrinking pension accounts, reduced wages, higher retirement ages, and reforms to Social Security that will inevitabely come, the Americans who once comprised the middle class and those still clinging to the middle-class title will be the mass necessary to tip the world into global insurrection against banker occupation (GIABO according to Max Keiser).
My views on this are not the norm right now….but what I see is nothing short of global riots, strikes and protests met with an iron fist police state. The iron fist will be wielded by a new financial order that will rise from the ashes of the current system that has flat-lined but been recesitated and is in a medically induced coma; breathing with help from a respirator. This has all been socially-engineered to this point. This is not to say that we should simply stand by and do nothing. Hardly! Just know that all these articles that incite fear and hate, although justified, need to be placed in the proper context of the bigger picture. TPTB’s trap has been set, the surveillance grid is being subtly erected everyday, while more and more people are waking up to the fraud and crimes against humanity that continue to happen and continue to go unpunished. This makes for an ugly next few years domestically; not to mention, the ramifications regionally throughout the world.
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Top Foreclosure Firm’s Homeless-Themed Halloween Party Pictures Spark Controversy on Internet
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-baum-foreclosure-homeless-halloween-255102
(Excerpt from story)
The story goes like this: New York’s largest foreclosure law firm, Steven J. Baum, held it’s big annual Halloween party last year, as they do every year the Friday before October 31. Nearly a year later, a former employee sent photos from the party to NY Times columnist Joe Nocera. But unlike most Halloween costume parties, this one sparked anger: the pictures depict what appears to be a “homeless” theme, with employees at the Buffalo-based firm apparently mocking the very homeowners their law firm targets with foreclosure.
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Anyways, enough of the rant on what I see panning out in the near future, what say you about the picture above?! Good taste? Poor taste? Funny? Classy? What say you?!
is it a moment?
or a GAME OFF! moment
KaD says:
Why? Because it’s just SO funny when the little people lose everything they’ve worked all their life for.
Let them eat cake! Yeah! Remember what happened to the person who originally said that.
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31st October 2011 at 3:07 pm
KaD says:
Maybe THIS halloween the people who didn’t get invited to the party should help the law firm dress up in tar and feathers.
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31st October 2011 at 3:11 pm
Georgia says:
I think it’s RUDE and ignorant and it makes them look dumb. Newsy did a short news video on this story, where a lot of different reactions are compiled: http://www.newsy.com/videos/foreclosure-firm-mocks-homeless/ …needless to say, I think a lot more people will be offended than think it’s funny.
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31st October 2011 at 3:23 pm
Colma Rising says:
Hey, you know, after washing anti-depressants down with expensive wine and swank booze, I’m sure the average joe in a mega-firm thinks anything is A-OK, in my humble opinion.
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31st October 2011 at 3:34 pm
King-shat says:
It would be funny if the bankers were homeless as well. Or if they were’nt bailed out at least.
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31st October 2011 at 3:40 pm
howard in nyc says:
i think lou reed had a song lyric like that.
“give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. Lemme piss on ‘em.”
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31st October 2011 at 4:00 pm
Stucky says:
Here is a secret for you.
People who make a living off of other people’s money don’t give a flying fuck about the other person. Never have. Never will. (Please don’t bother posting exceptions to the rule.)
In the car business, after a sale is made the manager will ask, “Did you crack them?”. “Crack” means you made a lot of money on the deal … percentage sold over invoice, high finance rate, horrible terms, whatever. You know who the heros are in the car biz? Those salespeople who crack buyers most often and hardest. If you give the buyer a good deal … you’re treated like a fucking scumbag.
Ms Freud’s son is a dipshit stock broker on Wall Street. 25 years old. Bought a house for $750k last year … made $250,000 CASH downpayment. He loves to come over and brag about make tens of thousands of bucks on a single transaction … an how he can’t believe he convinced the client to pay his fees, believe his schpiel, whatever. It’s all a fucking game. And the customer is the mark. He even tried to make money off his mother. Cocksucker.
In the mortgage biz … well, inless the loan officer someone charges an interest rate over par, they’ll basically be working for minimum wage. Fucking over the buyer is how you make lots of money,
If a financial professional makes more than what is fair … YOU lose. There is no other way around it.
The out-in-the-open regarding the Halloween story is somewhat of a shock. But not their disregard for their marks.
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31st October 2011 at 4:57 pm
Pirate Jo says:
Well, Stucky, that would be why I fired my financial salesman. I figured out I was being conned, and I wish I had figured it out sooner, but I’m not sitting around crying about it. I do have a responsibility to look out for myself. Now I tell whoever else will listen, in order to help others avoid making the same mistake.
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31st October 2011 at 5:10 pm
Opinionated Bloviator says:
Those 2 women should not get to comfortable, if they have enough equity in their homes to make stealing them with false title paperwork profitabe I see a Linda Green photoshoped signature and a large cardboard box under a bridge in their future.
That’s the problem with Rule of Whim wealth confiscation, once it gets started it only stops when you hit Argentina or Zimbabwe.
That is why the United States is going down the S bend, you cannot have a first world economy with a third world government and legal system.
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31st October 2011 at 9:44 pm
Novista says:
And lo! another clock
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Whee!!! more marks to target.
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31st October 2011 at 11:02 pm
Karl Marx says:
It is called capitalism Stucky. The goal of any business is to maximize profitability. I am glad you are finally coming around to my school of thought.
“If a financial professional makes more than what is fair … YOU lose. There is no other way around it.”
I am so proud of you! You have finally realized that the market can not dictate a fair price by mutual consent between buyer and seller! Caveat Emptor no longer works because that would mean people would have to think for themselves and take personal responsibility.
Your next step in your evolutionary thought process will be to realized that no one should have more wealth than anyone else! These resources really belong to the State!
Did you secretly vote for Comrade Obama?
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31st October 2011 at 8:30 am
Karl Marx says:
“Realize…..not realized”
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31st October 2011 at 8:31 am
Stucky says:
Karl Marx
If you think you and I will go out on a bouble-date you are mistaken. I have NOT “come around” to your school of thought.
I am not against capitalism … whatever the fuck that means these days. To be more specific, I am not against a company or person making a profit … whether it’s under capitalism or any other “ism”.
The car biz for example. I am not against the salesman making a REASONABLE profit. Jeezus Krist! If the dealership sells the car at true cost how in the hell will they pay for electricity, their empoyees, taxes, etc etc??
I am against unreasonable profiteering. Charging $300 for $10 worth of sprayed-on undercoating. Or, charging 7% interest when the buyer qualifies for 4%. That type of thing.
Are we clear?
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31st October 2011 at 10:25 am
Stucky says:
double-date … employees
goddammit
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31st October 2011 at 10:27 am
KARL MARX says:
What if I came up with an awesome invention that costs me 50 dollars to produce. How much should I be able to sell it for?
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31st October 2011 at 7:38 pm
llpoh says:
Stuck – car dealerships make their money via their service department moreso than via car sales. When buying a car, always tell them you will get it serviced there as it can save you a lot of money during negotiation. They often sell cars at cost. Just saying.
Also, as you are against unreasonable profiteering, I guess that means that reasonable profiteering is just fine. Personally, I try to be reasonable in my profiteering. Please provide your graphs showing where reasonable becomes unreasonable so I know where I stand.
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31st October 2011 at 7:55 pm
llpoh says:
Karl – as far as I am concerned you should be able to sell it for as much as you want. Whatever people will pay for it is fine by me. Let the supply/demand curve dictate your price.
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31st October 2011 at 7:56 pm
Pirate Jo says:
I am against unreasonable profiteering too, so I shop around for a competitor who won’t do that. I don’t jump up and down demanding that I be absolved of all responsibility in the matter and that THERE OUGHTTA BE A LAW!!!
You can waste all the time you want saying Wall Street should be regulated so that we can trust them. Fuck that. You CAN’T trust them. Get used to it, and get over it. And for that matter, you can’t trust the regulators either, so it makes no difference. Take care of your own damn money.
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31st October 2011 at 7:57 pm
Stucky says:
llpoh — You’re a dick.
Karl — You’re an even bigger dick.
Nice try. I don’t play with dicks. (Except my own.)
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31st October 2011 at 8:00 pm
llpoh says:
Stuck – I guess that means you have a lot of free time on your hands.
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31st October 2011 at 8:06 pm
Bob says:
I’ve only been around since the early 80s, so I don’t have a reference point to fall back on, but seriously was there once a heady time in America where businesspeople sat down with their reasonable/unreasonable profit calculator and didn’t charge one red cent more than it said they should? Or is this more back-in-the-old-days propaganda that people have lapped up and retroactively applied as truth?
People are inherently self-interested. It’s a survival mechanism. Altruism is a myth. This has always been the case. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that most of the compassionate capitalists on here have never turned down any “unreasonable” windfall.
“Reasonable profit” is Marxist language. If someone is charging $300 for $10 sprayed-on undercoating, I’d go out and charge $150 for it and cut the bastard’s legs out from under him while making a killing. THAT’S economic justice.
If people don’t want their asses fucked they shouldn’t show up at the dance with their buttholes lubed up and their pants around their ankles. Or in other words, educate yourself before you enter into these situations and you won’t get taken for a ride. One thing I DO know used to exist in America is an educated and informed populace that didn’t blame others when it screwed the pooch and wasn’t perpetually indignant and always ready to lament and point the finger at oh-so-insensitive meanies.
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31st October 2011 at 8:28 pm
KARL MARX says:
llpoh-
Thank you! Any other answer indicates a non capitalist viewpoint by definition. I believe strongly in the ability for the invisible hand of the market to function. If price discovery is not allowed to work what is the point? I also believe Stucky is in the TBTF crowd. Too Broke To Fail.
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31st October 2011 at 11:27 pm
Lance says:
I buy houses at foreclosure auctions to rehab and sell or to keep as rentals. In all the houses that I have bought I have had only two instances in which those that lost the home hadn’t made terrible personal or financial decisions. I am not talking about them losing their jobs or the effects of some external factor forcing them to lose their house. I mean just plain bad decisions starting usually from long before they ever bought the house they lost. Just when I am getting to feel bad for anyone of them in particular I find a crack pipe in a cabinet or I walk in and find they have been living there with 2 inches of dog shit covering every square foot of the place. I make a decent living at this because I am willing to deal with crazy people, tons and tons of refuse, and lots of animal (and often human) feces.
These lawyers are hounded every minute of every work day by people who, if they weren’t delusional before they bought their house, are pushed there by the prospect of losing it. I don’t care how nice a person you were before you started in this business, after hearing every fake sob story in the book you get a little calous and start to think dressing up like these lawyers did is really funny.
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31st October 2011 at 3:37 am