HP dedicates this song to the unemployed mortgage brokers of America. Missin that VIP lounge right about now, eh?

Yo VIP let's kick it

Now that the party is jumping
With the bass kicked in and the vegas are pumpin'
Quick to the point to the point no faking
I'm cooking MC's like a pound of bacon

Burning them if you ain't quick and nimble
I go crazy when I hear a cymbal
And a hi-hat with a souped up tempo
I'm on a roll and it's time to go solo

HousingPANIC Stupid Question of the Day

How will we know when we've hit bottom?

When do you think that'll be?

Wall Street or Main Street?

Watch this to be the BIG campaign theme in 2008 in local and national races around the country.

* GOP - fighting for Wall Street.
* Dems - fighting for Main Street.

Watch the Dems up the ante on foreclosure bailout plans. Watch McCain have no idea what to do. And watch Bush's popularity rating fall into the single digits as he goes Herbert Hoover.

I'm against ANY type of bailout plan using taxpayer funds, for bankers or housing gamblers, so I'm against BOTH the GOP and Dems on this one. They both want to spend our money, it's just a question of who gets it.

I will fight Obama when he stupidly promotes a bailout. And Clinton just offered another $30 billion today - watch her keep upping that number. Poor McCain just avoids the whole issue, since economics just ain't his thing.

But in terms of general theme, watch this 'Wall Street vs. Main Street' theme really take off now, and watch the housing crash be the #1 issue in November by far.

So I haven't checked lately, but I'd imagine the used-auto market is flooded with realtor cars in places like Phoenix, Miami, DC, San Diego, Vegas etc

Pssst.. Hey buddy. Wanna buy a used Lexus? Only 100,000 miles, stinks like cheap perfume, littered with cigarette butts and has makeup stains all over it, but we'll make you a great deal! We'll take anything -- gotta raise cash and raise it NOW!

Update on the ramen-eater who won't cut her commission, regardless of what the market will pay

I wish more realtor sites would allow comments from consumers instead of just other realtors. They'd be SO much more entertaining.

Active Rain, god bless 'em, allowed HP'ers and others to comment on the post where the realtor stomped her feet and said no way Jose was she cutting her rate - because she had all these other crooks taking her money (waaaaa!!).

$20 an hour I say. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. Take it or leave it.

Here's some of the best comments. Feel free to keep adding, but keep it clean OK...

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Dear Kim,

You provide no value whatsoever. Is there a "vehicletor" when I want to sell my car? No. Sorry cutie, find a new job.

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HAHAHA!, pathetic. Thanks for helping to destroy the economy realtor lady.
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Realtor is the new used car salesman
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Will you be selling houses.....No!
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One word for you.

Redfin

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Realtors are scum. What service do you provide? Your days are numbered.
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you will be getting a lesson in economics, as the free market will be cutting your commission for you, regardless of what you think. have fun revisiting this post and these thoughts in a year!
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You need not cut your commission.

It will be cut for you, by the market, or you will simply become part of the tsunamai of out-of-work used house salespeople.
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I cannot understand why Realtors charge 6% in the US.

I lived in the UK and I sold my house and the Realtors charged 1%

They also prepared beautiful marketing materials - full color brochures - not like the garbage here.

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Just like censoring the dead in Iraq, the REIC-ad-supported US MSM refuses to report the ugly truth about the US housing crash. So here's the BBC.

Tent cities in America.

Coming to a foreclosure city near you.

Hopefully, it's all spiraling out of control now for China and Wal-Mart. Things fall apart. The center will not hold.

Boycott Wal-Mart

Boycott the China Olympics

Free Tibet

The Chinese are now hunting down the protesters in a desperate house-to-house search. While you drive down to Wal-Mart and buy their crap.

ZHONGDIAN, China - The government stepped up its manhunt Friday for protesters in last week's riots in the capital of Tibet, as thousands of troops converged on foot, trucks and helicopters to Tibetan areas of western China.