Senators Propose - Buy a US Home Get a Visa

Discussion in 'In the News' started by JordanC, Oct 20, 2011.

  1. JordanC

    JordanC Well-Known Member

    Are they serious??!!


    http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/20/8413642-buy-a-home-get-a-us-visa-senators-propose

    By Roland Jones
    Two Senators have come up with a plan to boost the moribund U.S. housing market: Give residence visas to foreigners who spend at least $500,000 to buy a home in the U.S.
    A report in The Wall Street Journal says Sens. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Mike Lee (R., Utah) are preparing to introduce the idea as part of a larger package of immigration measures. The idea is to help make up for the lack of American buyers in the housing market, according to the report.
    The Journal notes that foreigners now account for a growing share of the homes purchased in South Florida, Southern California, Arizona and other hard-hit housing markets.
    “Chinese and Canadian buyers, among others, are taking advantage not only of big declines in U.S. home prices and reduced competition from Americans but also of favorable foreign exchange rates,” the paper said.
    The plan aims to fuel this demand by offering visas to any foreigners making “a cash investment of at least $500,000 on residential real-estate — a single-family house, condo or townhouse,” the Journal reported.
    “Applicants can spend the entire amount on one house or spend as little as $250,000 on a residence and invest the rest in other residential real estate, which can be rented out,” the paper added.
     
  2. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    And so it begins. The wave of Chinese "owners" hope you fuckers have been brushing up on your Mandarin
     
  3. swirlman07

    swirlman07 Well-Known Member

    I see this having more potential to bring organized crime to the states. I don't think most other country's citizens, who're wealthy, would want visas here, as they only want to be tourists and live in their own countries.
     
  4. JordanC

    JordanC Well-Known Member

    Exactly. If you are legit you can get a visa through the normal process.
     
  5. flaminghetero

    flaminghetero Well-Known Member

    Why all the surprise?

    Illegal immigrants have been buying houses for years.
     
  6. JordanC

    JordanC Well-Known Member

    Yeah but they didn't get a free visa with it. We'll have every drug lord and criminal every other country doesn't want, setting up shop here.
     
  7. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    Actually that's false fam. A lot of wealth Chinese want to leave China since they can't truly own property.

    http://news.yahoo.com/top-chinese-wealthys-wish-list-leave-china-065826880.html
     
  8. flaminghetero

    flaminghetero Well-Known Member

    Hell they don't need a damn visa...they get sanctuary laws...catch and release programs...birthright citizenship ect ect ect ect.
     
  9. swirlman07

    swirlman07 Well-Known Member

    Actually, it's not false fam. I said that most don't and the article does nothing to change that view. It's also one thing to be disgruntled, we do it here when we've the opportunity to stand on a soap box. Even the guy in the article talked about leaving in 10 years, not now. Besides, any article that boasts about how Chinese view the American educational system as great, can't be trusted, lol.
     
  10. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    They're definitely talking about college bro lol. People in Jamaica don't even want their kids in American elementary and high schools.
     
  11. Soulthinker

    Soulthinker Well-Known Member

    I can imagine the people who are against amnesty for illegal immigrants say: OH HELL NO!!!!!!
     
  12. 4north1side2

    4north1side2 Well-Known Member

  13. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    Very true. The only difference is you can transfer propertt generationally here but you're right in this country they take your shit if you miss a tax payment.
     
  14. 4north1side2

    4north1side2 Well-Known Member

    Thru eminent domain as well.

    "It's not an issue that gets much attention, but the government has the right to seize your house, business, and/or land, forcing you into the street. This mighty power, called “eminent domain,” is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment: “… nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” Every single state constitution also stipulates that a person whose property is taken must be justly compensated and that the property must be put to public use. This should mean that if your house is smack-dab in the middle of a proposed highway, the government can take it, pay you market value, and build the highway."

    http://www.disinfo.com/2010/03/the-...-land-then-sell-them-to-private-corporations/
     
  15. Blacktiger2005

    Blacktiger2005 Well-Known Member

    Donald Trump is right. Americans, particularly American Politicians are the dumbest in the world. The rest of the world laugh at us for our stupidity. We commit national suicide by leaving our borders open, we give away our scientific and technological advantages to the chinese and others, we bail everyone out in the world, we give foreign aid to those who hate our guts, we give money to nations like Brazil to harness their oil industry, yet we hold ours back, and on and on. Thanks to the politicians, they are the ones who got us into this fucking economic mess in the first place from the housing mess to our loss in competitiveness in our education system. Yet the dummies who protest on Wall Street only protest the fat cats there and not the fat cats in Washington D.C. We as a nation deserve what we get. America is a nation that is slowing becoming another Roman Empire. If the mexicans do not bring us down internally, the chinese will or perhaps the Arab fanatics will end the West. It took one fanatic to start the chain of events that brought about the First World War that lingered on from a corporal who fought in that war (Hitler) into a Second World War.
     
    Last edited: Oct 23, 2011
  16. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. That's like saying if someone breaks into your house robs you and murders you, you deserved it because you didn't sleep with a gun next to your bed. We shouldn't have to.
     
  17. Blacktiger2005

    Blacktiger2005 Well-Known Member

    The dumbest fucking thing is to know that the shit is hitting the fan you (not you that is) is the dummy who will not duck from the shit. I stand by every fucking word. Denial is motherfucker.
     
  18. jaisee

    jaisee Well-Known Member

    I don't even know where to start on this.
     
  19. z

    z Well-Known Member

    Yep, while now Senators discussing a possible military intervention in Syria, Afghan prez just made a statement this am that if a war breaks out between USA and Pakaistan he will definately side with Pakistan and support them. Ain't that about a bitch, after all America has been doing for his ass. I really hope Karzai made that statement because he is afraid of crazy pakistain who is got nuclear power on their hands, otherwise he is one ungrateful bastard!! Biting the hand that feeds him, smdh.
     
  20. flaminghetero

    flaminghetero Well-Known Member

    They aren't dumb..they know exactly what they are doing.

    The people protesting on Wall Street got it right..

    Wall Street runs the country...not the politicians in Washington...that is just a charade...

    The financial interest on Wall Street OWN your BELOVED politicians from the PROTUS to your local Aldreman/congressman...or whatever you call that crook.

    Yep

    The ENTIRE political apparatus has been PURCHASED by the same Corporations that sold you out to the Indians and Chinese.

    The people that set your interest rates run this bad boy..not some shit-eating politician.


    That shit in Washington is just a fea circus.

    OBAMA

    DOESN'T

    RUN

    SHIT

    :smt039


    WE don't have a Black President...those rich white boys on Wall Street have a Black president.
     

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