The government’s deal with five major banks to provide $1,500 to $2,000 to homeowners who are behind in their mortgages to help them pay the banks is rewarding the banks who made these horrible mortgages in the first place. Those homes should be re-appraised and the banks made to re-do the mortgages at today’s low percentage rates.
This should stop the foreclosures, put people back in their homes and eventually save the banks from receiving this welfare from taxpayers.
Marvin Purser, Hollywood
Almost a month ago, a Coral Gables travel agency chartering flights to Cuba was firebombed. The agency had recently helped facilitate the pilgrimage of hundreds of Cuban-American Catholic worshipers and others to Cuba to participate in a papal mass.
Re the May 20 column by Myriam Marquez, State shares blame for school woes: Marquez honestly addresses how thoughtless, imbalanced and inconsistent the state’s leadership has been since declaring an all-out assault on public education. Her question “Is the point to strengthen public schools or to destroy them?” needs a definitive answer.
Re the May 22 letter The goal: more water conservation: You cannot tell existing homeowners to limit water-sprinkler use while building more homes, each having showers, dishwashers, sprinklers, etc.
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