That was published in a local paper. If anyone needs help call 211. It speaks to an agency that helps people in need to survive. Rent, electric, and other necessities. Now this is true and these agencies they refer you to are damn good people. Trying to help what is an unending number of people, too many to possibly help they are overtaxed. Yes plain ordinary people, not the irresponsible, or non credit worthy so many of you are quick to label. No just plain ordinary down on their luck people. Everyday average Americans making under $50,000 a year or less and crushed.
The fact is this is all sadly just another facade. There is not enough money or resources to help People and like everything else these braggarts or so called leaders in my opinion refer to these agencies that are insufficiently manned, under funded and can't keep pace with demand as helping everyone. Just call and get help. In my opinion how totally pathetic and yes corrupt. Even more so those who believe their talk.
I was just listening to an "expert" say that the American people are at fault for this. They are the irresponsible ones, not the banks and investors. They own the mortgage, they took the money, they made the deal and they have to live up to it. Yes just like their parents did. They wanted more then they could afford. He conveniently passed the buck to people and left out a hell of a lot of additional facts.
Yes my father and mother took a risk and purchased a home with a mortgage, but and here we go with a list of buts that will fill a book, that home appreciated not depreciated. They paid, sold and made money not lost 75% of its values. The American dream was just that but it is no more and they have the gall to place the blame on average Americans for buying more then they could afford. They home my mom and dad purchased was a gamble, a risk for them. They weren't on easy street USA. They were working people like many of these all across this land who only wanted a slice of the dream.
So yes mom and dad both had jobs and jobs that were fairly secure. If they lost a job they were fairly certain of finding work in a reasonable time frame. The did not have to contend with the predatory lenders and investors and practices of today. Yes and while they paid back three times the cost of the home they had fair and reasonable terms. People were content with a fair profit and making money. People were able to sell and move up, they had equity, that was the system. That was the American dream and it was built on credit, banks, and organizations that sold that dream and took a chance and trusted people and vice versa.
So when you throw lost jobs, outsourcing, greed, lying, usury, crime, sin and everything else into the equation average Americans have no chance. No, they are now to be labeled irresponsible while these corporate big wigs aren't? They are at fault for doing what the system encouraged, had been the American way of life, a job, a family, a home, a car for eons. To move up in life, be successful and do better, provide a better life for their family. Yes our mistake, ok, trust in the thieves, the greedy, the exploiters, the wolves. That is the mistake and that mistake continues in the guise of these very same politicians. In that we are the fools. The cattle, the bovine.
Look there is a certain amount of trust in everything one does in business and life. You buy a car and you hope you get the terms and car you expected to get. Trust and hope. When trust is violated you are stuck and hope dies. The problem today is not a small number stuck, the problem is massive in scope. Did you sign the contract certainly, are you stuck probably. Yet that does not make it moral, right or just.
Yes a sign of the times. The nations character, certainly. For those who are fools and believe by changing the president will change your life, what can one say. For those that have yes, you will do better. For those that have not, you have better times to day then you and yours will up the road only you can't accept that. Look at what they promise and can really deliver. Are you that naive? Gas doped significantly per barrel did it at the pump yes and right before an election. It is well past understanding into the domain of surreal.
To sum it up because why write any longer, the have reversed, redirected and placed the blame away from themselves and onto you the average American. They make themselves righteous and you the thief. How totally pitiful. They justify for themselves what they do as honorable, right and as what God would do and all the while knowing not the God they profess to believe in.
Yes you shall know them by their works in what they have done and failed to do, the fruit of their labor and not int heir words. That is those who truly believe shall know and that's a fact jack, as the movie line goes and no amount or warning, writing or saying will change them. They are who the bible says they are. As in the days of Noah.
Robert T. Melaccio Sr. 2008 Copyright ©2008 Robert Melaccio Sr.
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