With all the economic turmoil in this country right now, many people love to point their fingers at their fellow man and blame them for the problems we all face in this country.
One thing I think many of you fail to realize is that there is a multitude of people innocently affected by the housing crisis. First off, not everyone took out a bad mortgage and not everyone bought more than they could afford. While talking to a fellow blogger on the phone about the current crisis in my neighborhood, I decided to see what the competition is in my neighborhood and the above picture is the “tell all” for what many people are facing today.
Many people have taken huge pay cuts and many people have lost their job due to many companies closing up. When the only option you have is to move to another part of the state or out of state all together to feed your family, how do you sell your house with this type of competition? Many of these homes were approximately 100,000 4 years ago and it wasn’t until last quarter of 2008 when these homes all went into foreclosure. Today, many people would love to get a brand new start and are unable to because they have to make a tough decision to make, and that decision is to either wait out the economic storm and destroy their credit rating trying to save the home they live in, or just walk away entirely further decimating the neighborhood and their once decent credit rating.
Like I have said before, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. I could care less whether or not my neighbor took out a mortgage they couldn’t afford or couldn’t pay the bills due to job loss; I am strictly blaming the banks for the loss of the value of my home.
The banks did not have to refuse to work with the thousands of people that were in jeopardy of losing their homes. They could of worked with these people before things got as bad as they did. If you think the worst is behind us, think again, I am sure there are many people hanging on by barely a thread and its only time before reality hits us a second time.
After reading some posts and seeing a comment from someone stating that the pre-existing issue is BS, I thought I would write up a post in response to that. When I started researching pre-existing conditions and health care I stumbled upon something very interesting.
Did you know that in 8 states and the District of Columbia domestic abuse is considered as a pre-existing condition with insurance companies? I thought this was another pathetic excuse for insurance companies to deny coverage to people who carry their insurance.
So in regards to the BS statement made about pre-existing conditions, hopefully you have never been beaten by your spouse, one day, if you fall down the steps and break your arm, you might be denied health care coverage because in the eyes of the insurance companies, if you have been beaten once, your more then likely to be beaten again.
CIGNA says they are ‘A Business of Caring,’ but the reality is that they are getting filthy rich by denying basic coverage, specially to those patients that need it the most. Sick for Profit launched a contest to rename CIGNA’s advertising tagline.
Here is a great example!
I found this video yesterday at www.defeatthedebt.com
Very interesting to say the least!!!
I looked up many the responses to this video and there were some very angry people out there because they stated they were using children to pass a political message. Many stated it was the right wing going after the current President. I did browse the site for a bit and they seemed to be quite neutral in regards to political stance.
What I find interesting about the responses I read is that many people are still very blind to the real issues that is destroying this country. The American people were blindsided by NAFTA and the excessive loss of American jobs because corporations are no longer loyal to their mother country and would rather find cheaper labor to produce and turn the United States into a nation of consumption not production.
I hear many people scream when the current administration is trying to implement a health care system that is affordable, and usable for its people.
What if NAFTA was never implemented? Would we be in this current mess we are now? The Detroit News published an interactive map a few months ago during the automotive crisis and on each state there were totals of the amount of manufacturing jobs that this country lost so they could find cheaper labor overseas. The totals were in the millions. How many more American jobs are you going to be ok with going overseas before you finally wake up and say, wait a minute, something is wrong? When is the last time you walked into any behemoth corporation and was able to choose between a product “Made in America” and “Made in China”?
I hear many scream “not out of my pocketbook” to help your fellow country men get health care in order to survive or once again become a productive member of society. I have heard many people tell others to go get a job! Where should they go to get that job? Should we all start packing up and moving to that communist country you all supposedly hate, yet, you support with every dollar you spend to get that buck savings?
Capitalism will not work without a level playing field. Nor will this nation prosper if we continue to let our jobs go overseas in areas where there is no labor laws, where there are very unsafe working conditions, and where the product you buy is tainted with chemicals and lead.
Where should the American drive be when many of you feel that it is ok for American laborers to make less money every year while the cost to survive continually goes up and up every year?
Why do you feel its ok for people to go bankrupt and not have health care, yet you continually sell out your fellow American to save a buck at your local corporate behemoth? Instead of screaming at your neighbors to get a job, why don’t you start screaming at the government to first, bring them back, but no, you just continue to buy foreign.
Enjoy your new pledge of allegiance, you deserve it!
If any of this makes sense, read what is on the following link:
http://defeatthedebt.com/understanding-the-national-debt/millions-billions-trillions/
