Category Archives: The Economy

PLEASE CALL & EMAIL YOUR SENATORS NOW TO SUPPORT S. 61 SAVE OUR HOMES FROM THE BANKS

Stop whatever you are doing, gather staff, family, and friends, and take the one minute needed to have everyone you know do the following:
Phone AND email your Senator.  Say:
“Hi, I’m [Name] and I live in [town]
I’m calling to urge Senator  ___ to vote for S. 61.
Senator  ____ should stand up to the big banks and support […]

TELL YOUR SENATORS TO SUPPORT SENATE BILL 61; THE HELPING FAMILIES SAVE THEIR HOMES IN BANKRUPTCY ACT OF 2009. REDUCE HOME FORECLOSURES AT NO COST TO TAXPAYERS.

 This foreclosure solution costs taxpayers NOTHING.
  

Over 6,600 American families a day are losing their homes to foreclosure.
In the next five years, over 8,000,000 American family homes
will be lost to foreclosure, unless we do something now.
If we don’t, the value of all of our homes will keep going down and our neighborhoods will suffer.

Bankruptcy Is Not A Four Letter Word

Yes, bankruptcy is a ten letter word!  I use “four letter word” since most people believe a four letter word is bad.  It is important for people to know that bankruptcy does not mean they are a bad person.  In my experience, people do not call me after they “max” out credit cards and become […]

The Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter

As millions of Americans are losing their homes, often unjustly because they were enticed into programs that have harmed them, at least one Website is gleefully tallying the number of these outrageous lenders that have run into trouble themselves.
The Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter has become so recognized that, according to The New York Times, at the […]

Barack Obama Proposes Bankruptcy Reforms

According to the Associated Press and Fox News, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has proposed changing bankruptcy laws to fast-track the process for military families, help seniors keep their homes, and protect people recovering from natural disasters. In doing so, Obama also accused Republican rival John McCain of repeatedly siding with the banking industry, […]