Said To Their Bank: “Show Me The Note, Motherf-cker!”
October 18, 2010
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Gonzalo Lira writes another great post here:
http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2010/10/this-is-what-brian-and-ilsa-said-to.html
Brian and Ilsa tried complaining about the unfairness of the situation, but once again, they were given the runaround.
Then, they and I both discovered that a lot of the people who were initially said to qualify for HAMP in fact did not qualify—they were added to the program so that banks and servicers could collect Federal government bonuses, then bumped off the program once their three-month “trial mod” was over.
It didn’t matter if they qualified or not—it was all just some sort of sick game with these people, done so that they could get some of that Federal government bonus money. The proof of this was the undisputed testimony of a whistleblower—whose testimony was of course ignored by the mainstream media.
After all this heartbreak and frustration—and fear—Brian and Ilsa had reached the end of their tether: Ilsa had said, essentially, F-ckit, and was urging her husband Brian for them to strategically default. Brian was wavering, though he was as equally outraged as his wife.
The point of my piece was, If and when solid upstanding middle-class people such as Brian and Ilsa ever do throw in the towel and let out a collective F-ckit, then it’s curtains for the American Republic: You cannot have a viable society where the backbone of the country thinks that following the rules and the law is for suckers and chumps.
With the facts of their story in hand, I went off and wrote up my piece, posted it—and watched as it garnered 50,000 hits in a matter of days—over 70,000 hits as of today, eleven days later—and it’s still going strong.
the rest is here
http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2010/10/this-is-what-brian-and-ilsa-said-to.html
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