Friday, March 23, 2012

Welcome The Palestinians To The World Of Nations--And Personal Debt

Be careful what you wish for.

The Palestinian Arabs claim they are ready to be a country just like any other country--and now they have taken a significant step to prove their point: The Palestinian Arabs are up to their eyeballs in unpaid mortgages.

The LA Times reports:
Palestinians are up to ears in debt
The Palestinian middle class has seized on mortgages and consumer loans as a route to upward mobility. But with the credit increase comes soaring personal debt.


Ayman and Rahma abu Hussein can't help but feel they are moving up in the world.

The database engineer and his wife just bought their first home, and it's large enough for both of their children to have their own rooms. There's a Hyundai parked outside and a flat-panel TV hangs in the living room, one of many new appliances decking out the place.

But the Abu Husseins are up to their ears in debt. Their upward mobility, like that of thousands of other Palestinians, came tied to something that was once rare in the West Bank: mortgages and consumer credit.

In recent years, the increased availability of mortgages and consumer loans instead of cash for the middle class has caused personal debt to balloon in the Palestinian territories. It more than doubled, to about $750 million, from 2008 to the end of 2011 and rose 40% over the last year alone, according to figures from the Palestinian Authority.

Most of the increase came from a surge in home loans, which were once available only to the rich or those who could find three people to cosign for them.
Welcome to the Palestinian dream!
(Let us know how that works out for you)

Technorati Tag: and and and .

1 comment:

Empress Trudy said...

Obama will give them a bailout. Probably condemn the Jews for their global control of all money and real estate. On a serious note, it would in fact be cheaper for the EU and all the others to simply pay 100% of the expenses of all Arabs in Gaza and Yesha for eternity. Pay them to sit home and watch tv or whatnot. I doubt it would cost more than 30 billion dollars a year to bribe them all to live the middle class life w/o having to work or go to school or anything. Every one of their needs and desires attended to by eager apparachiks waiting to daub their sweaty brows and hold their trembling hands. Make "Palestine" a full time permanent protectorate of the EU so that the Arabs never have to life a finger. Eventually they'll stop going to school, stop doing anything except sitting their with blank bovine stares waiting to be handfed like zoo animals.