Bank Of America Stops Foreclosures In All 50 States

What about my house...already sold at auction by BOA in Florida?



I filed a motion to dismiss because according to those documents BOA did not even own the mortgage or have possession of those papers. They used scam attorneys against which there is now a class action suit. That was my retirement gone due to Wall Street games and BOA. I then had to file bankruptcy to protect myself from a judgment not possible to do on disability.



Lawsuit claims that Florida's largest foreclosure firm faked documents.



The suit, filed in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, says David J. Stern and his Plantation-based legal team violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by generating fraudulent mortgage assignments when pursuing foreclosures.



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Trade War Is Here -- and We've Disarmed

We know this. Here is a perspective not clearly made. Businesses who sell to the public look to their customer base. America has 300 million people. China has a billion MORE potential consumers than the US. India about 800,000 more than in the US. Investors consider each a better option than the US as a place to invest their money.



Do the math. Why is it we are losing and why are American companies and the wealthy spending their spare cash ( tax breaks ) moving jobs there? As a market we are 1/3 of their income now and shrinking along with our economy. The wealthy here are not stupid but but they are also not very concerned with out own future because their incomes are becoming less dependent on our middle class spending. And the more they outsource the less we have to spend and the less important we are as a market. It is a downward spiral our own tax dollars have been funding.



We may be doomed already, to becoming the next third world nation, albeit one with super power status, because we are just not that important as a market any longer. We allowed big business to sell us down the river in part because of tax breaks and other incentives to outsource.



Check my article. http://www.joethevoter.org/too-big-for-glenn-beck.html
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Five Ways the Democrats Can Avoid a Catastrophe and Pull Off the Mother of All Upsets

Re the Foreclosure actions, here is a class action suit starting in Florida regarding the issues of who really owned those papers relied upon for filing?



http://tinyurl.com/forclosure-suit-florida
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<i>Third World America</i>: Why I Wrote the Book and What We Need to Do to Save America's Middle Class

I sent this to a number of progressive groups a few minutes ago. Perhaps we can spread the idea to get everyone united behind keeping the GOP out of power then pushing for more "corrections" in Congress --------------------



"At this time I believe that your first priority needs to be to temporarily set aside your bigger objectives and focus on keeping Democrats in power.



We are both aware that if Republicans take over Government in November, your issues will get little attention and less respect than is presently the case.



If your goals are to achieve progress in your area of interest you need progressive people in power. While it may be true that the current Congress has not done as much as it could have, tossing them out will result in diminished chances in the coming couple of years.



I do not suggest you target for support any specific candidate, however, you must target the GOP for defeat as a matter of preserving your own best interest. You will also secure some friends on the left for your efforts which I am sure will be good for your objectives when they return to office.



To that end I suggest you suspend your campaigns on behalf of your own pet projects and focus on getting the word out to as many voters as possible. Urge them to vote Democrat to save any chance that your greater goals have a chance to live."
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Homeless and Empty Homes -- an American Travesty

Part of the problem not addressed is the banks who foreclose on houses then evict paying tenants, sometimes making them homeless as well. I recently received a violation notice on a property that was taken back by the bank. Seems the city still thought I owned it. The place is a mess, trash, weeds as tall as the fence etc. The tenants who lived there were evicted by the bank rather than the bank collecting rent. These people were good tenants, had jobs paid their rent and kept the property in excellent condition. Now the bank is sitting on a vandal target that is deteriorating without an occupant.



Since these properties become a blight and enforcement problem for cities because banks won't respond to code violations etc. Cities need to respond by placing liens on these properties and require the banks to either rent them or to allow the cities to use them to provide shelter for homeless families until the properties are sold. If a homeless families fortunes reverse they should get first dibs on becoming permanent tenants.
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Boehner, Pence: Raising Social Security Retirement Age An Option

Boehner lies...as usual.



Social Security is on good footing and can sustain through the tough economy and still pay full benefits until at least 2037. Politicians cannot raid OUR surplus which is part of what ticks Republicans off. Boehner and his ilk would prefer to find a way to hand the current $2.3Trillion dollars over to one of their private insurance buddies where it no longer has any government protections. Remember how these banks and insurance companies wiped out billions in private retirement accounts prior to 2009 and caused our recession? Do you really think it would be a good idea to put our only safe nest egg into their basket?



SS does not contribute to our deficit because it is self-funded through it's own separate tax paid into from workers and employers.



It is not an "entitlement", a word republicans love to throw out there as a bad thing. It is an insurance policy citizens pay premiums into then collect when they retire.



http://www.joethevoter.org/busted-social-security-myths.html
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Obama Muslim Myth on the Rise

This is a right wing smoke screen they use to hide what they are really up to...the conversion of our nation into a corporate entity that is no longer responsible to the citizens, but to a select few at the top who already hold 98% of our total wealth. These people long ago bought and paid for the GOP and have them doing their dirty work. They are experts at using hate, fear, bigotry and hysteria to turn one American against another for political gain.



What is the sickest part of their plot to create a "corporatist" America is that they have been so successful in manipulating religion and so-called Christians to join in with this bigotry and hate. I guess those are the "Christians" who decided to change the spelling of their deity from GOD to GOP.



But why are the more main stream Christian organizations remaining so quit while all of this takes place?
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