Welcome to 30 years of Reaganomics... Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush... DeRegulation/NAFTA/Strike Breaking and the worst of all... Unregulated Speculation... from an economy of Wealth (ie.. making things, manufacturing, creating) to an economy of speculation and fraud... Welcome to your Randian Vision...

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lardass cop has it.
did you see the size of that creep?
I think those kinds of bastards actually enjoy their jobs.
How can anyone throw out a little child?

I own my own fixed rate home yet, this stuff pisses me REAL off.
I'd like to shit in those wall st golden parachutes.

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Watching this was hard and to be honest Chris Hanson should be doing more of this reporting so that we can all see just how much regulation needs to be done to the banking system and Wall Street. We give the banks the money and no consequences and rules for engagement. I am tired of watching Wall Street's butt be kissed.

I don't understand why we cannot have the govt. freeze the adjustable rate mortgages and renegotiate them to a reasonable level to keep people in their homes while we get the economy back on track. I am frustrated that the help always goes to the top and not to the bottom where it is really needed.

And for those of you who are thinking of going into debt to finance their kids education, be careful.

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Cris Hanson got over his obsession with perverts.

I can not watch this, it will make me cry.

Make Rick Santelli, Jim Cramer and all their buddies sit in a room for one week straight watching this in a loop.

Oh, silly me, I forgot. They would just laugh at the "losers."

Granny's luv note to Jon Stewart Go get a chuckle!

Luv,
Granny

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for these families and for my country. We allowed ourselves to be sold the proverbial snake oil that we could feel good if we just bought this item or that house, and do not worry about the cost, we will bill you! We allowed our politicians to lull us into believing that they were protecting our interests and our nation's most profound principles, while they wiped them out of existence. NOW we get to see the cost of this in our hometowns and to our families and neighbors.

It is time to stop putting band-aids on symptoms and start actually developing programs that cure these problems. I would like to suggest something different from what we have had for nearly 7 decades. It is time to stop trying to be better than the Joneses and start trying to create a new America with the same determination as our Forefathers and our pioneer ancestors. We start at the bottom and we rebuild from the ground up, figuratively and literally.

We start with the homeless. We create from the existing programs a new homesteading act. The homeless families can either work to rehab inner city abandoned facilities into business incubators and residences and empty lots into community gardens and farms, or they can create new rural communities based on an agricultural base with small businesses supporting this base, working at building new homes and new economic models based on organic, alternative programs for energy, building, farming, and education while creating jobs for these families by assisting them to build new businesses. We do not feed them, we help them learn to feed themselves.

I have written a proposal for a homeless homesteading act that will save the country money in the long run and can later be expanded to assist any family living in deep poverty. I have attempted to get it to members of the government in DC, various city agencies, and have sent it to some of the larger homeless assistance programs. It is a program that does not provide a band-aid solution, but rather draws on all areas of assistance to create a cure. It was used historically to help the poor and it is in keeping with the primary mandates of sustainable communities - poverty alleviation and environmental protection.

These families could regain not a rental or continue to be preyed on by the lenders. They could be working to create new communities or inner cities or suburban modifications. It would mean a new beginning for this and future generations of these families. Any suggestions as to how to make this a reality for this nation would be gratefully accepted.

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this is rediculous. what we must do is work together to understand their rules (the banks) relative to the actual Mortgage Agreement.

because these greedy ammoral bastards, sold the Note they have no proof 99% of the time they own it.

i wonder how many other aspects of the legalese of their Agreements are flawed? i assure you many 8-)

also, we gotta shake the shame of failure as consumers we get played this way constantly by the corporations. ever notice every commercial you see is them between you and your freinds..Family?

the so called Courts will only enforce the law which is their function as Baron Courts. Later deal with the Law itself ((we need Law repeal in the US)) something we never do.

Anyone out there an Attorney? Paralegal?

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Back in the Great Depression, didn't literally hundreds, if not thousands of ordinary citizens show up and physically block these foreclosures? Why the fuck aren't we doing this now? I'll be glad to be at one in Seattle. I had mfer's from finance companies LIE to me over the phone about credit cards I was applying for (another reason why I'll NEVER apologize for declaring bankruptcy back in 2004) I have no doubt similar scum lied to a very large percentage of mortgage applicants over the last several years. We'll never know the extent of the sheer outright FRAUD that's been visited upon our fellow citizens (and the OLDER the higher).
We need to brush up on our history or talk to people from that era to find out the APPROPRIATE way to handle this.

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instead of the pervert stories right now. Everyone needs to be able to put a face on what the financial institutions have created in this country...and he should also expose the faces in those institutions and Congress who caused the meltdown of the worldwide economy and the family.

These criminals who created this belong in jail not getting bailout money and bonuses. They all need to be in jail for what they've done to all of us.

I hope Hanson and Dateline will continue to follow stories like this and do followups on the evicted families to see where they ended up...many are in tent cities and campgrounds...these homeless are not only unskilled, uneducated workers, but are also college graduates now.

Isn't it about time to bailout the families, the consumers, the average person, the poor, the working poor, the elderly. the seniors instead of continually bailing these rich bastards out? Send them to jail where they belong.

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