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Igor The Terrible
Guest
Ahh......a member of America's middle class gets the screws put to
her. Did I not tell you this **** was going to happen? One of my
recent posts also included the middle and upper middle class were
beginning to lose their homes as well. You heard it here first.
However, what you read in the article below is a mere smattering of
what lies ahead. Things are going to get REAL ugly in the good old
U.S. of A...and there isn't a ****ing thing our worthless piece of
**** government will be able to do about it. As budgets dwindle (all
levels of government) you will see less law enforcement services,
emergency services, etc... So if your $1.5 million house catches fire
while you are caught up in a home invasion, call a CEO from an
American public corporation for assistance.
Yep! GREED IS GOOD. Just keep believing that. Keep putting money
before your fellow man and country...it's the best thing you can
possibly do--for our competitors and enemies.
The collapse of this former superpower will be one to behold. Never
in this planet's history will anyone ever see one going out kicking
and screaming like this one!
But hey, there is a silver lining to this. At least we can say that
we have the fastest growing tent cities in the world and there isn't a
country in this world that can keep up with our growth rate!!
Each day the world has more fodder on us to laugh at as they kick us
and our credibility to the curb.
Thank you Jesus for Yale!! Because without the charlatan ****suckers,
we could not have the likes of Bush infesting 1600 Pennsylvania Ave--
for two goddamned terms!!
ALTADENA, California (CNN) -- When she was laid off in February,
Patricia Guerrero was making $70,000 a year. Weeks later, with bills
piling up and in need of food for her family, this middle-class mother
did something she never thought she would do: She went to a food bank.
Patricia Guerrero was laid off in February. Desperate to make ends
meet, she recently went to a food bank.
1 of 2 It was Good Friday, and a woman helping her offered to pay her
utility bill.
"It brought tears to my eyes, and I sat there and I cried. I was like,
'This is really where I'm at?' " she told CNN. "I go 'no way;' [but]
this is true. This is reality. This is the stuff you see on TV. It was
hard. It was very hard."
Guerrero is estranged from her husband and raising her two young
children. She's already burned through her savings to help make ends
meet, and is drawing unemployment checks. She has had to take extreme
measures to pay for her interest-only mortgage of $2,500 a month. In
fact, her mother moved in with her to help pay the bills.
Guerrero even applied for food stamps, but was denied.
"I never used the system. I've been working since I was 15-and-a-half.
I needed it now and it turned me down," she said.
Stories like Guerrero's are becoming more common as middle-class
Americans feel the pinch of an economic downturn, rising gas prices
and a housing crunch, especially in a state like California that has
been rocked by foreclosures.
On Wednesday, a key government report on the battered housing market
found new home sales fell to their lowest level in 13 years in
February, suggesting the nation's housing market is still struggling.
Americans also have been attending in large numbers foreclosure fairs
where mortgage lenders, financial planners and counselors offer tips
to hard-hit homeowners.
"Our economy is struggling, and families in the 'Inland Empire' and
across the nation are hurting," California Rep. Joe Baca said,
referring to an area of Southern California in his district.
"Our housing market is in a state of crisis due to rampant abuses of
sub-prime lending, and unemployment is rising. At the same time, the
cost of necessities such as gas, healthcare, and education continue to
rise.
Daryl Brock, the executive director of Second Harvest Food Bank in
California's San Bernardino and Riverside counties, said his
organization supplies food to more than 400 charities in metro Los
Angeles, from homeless shelters to soup kitchens to an array of food
banks. While the majority of people they help are working poor
families, he said they have seen some major changes.
In the last 12 to 18 months, Brock said, the agencies he supplies have
begun seeing more middle-class families coming to their doors.
"Our agencies have said there is an increasing number of people coming
to them for help," Brock told CNN by phone. "Their impression was that
these were not people they normally would have seen before. They
seemed to be better dressed. They seemed to have better cars and yet
they seemed to be in crisis mode."
He added, "The only thing they can do is give us anecdotal evidence
that they think it's because of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown and
the housing crisis."
A former loan processor, Guerrero knows all about that, although so
far she has been able keep her house.
She used her tax refund to help pay many of her bills for the first
two months, but now that money's gone.
She says she's now in a middle-class "no-man's-land."
"It just happened so fast. It happened in a matter of -- what -- two
months," she said.
She's eager to get back to work and to hold onto her home until the
market turns. But for this single mom, every day it becomes harder to
hang on.
"It's just depressing," she said. "For me, I just don't want to get
out of bed, but I have to. That's my hardest thing. I have to."
her. Did I not tell you this **** was going to happen? One of my
recent posts also included the middle and upper middle class were
beginning to lose their homes as well. You heard it here first.
However, what you read in the article below is a mere smattering of
what lies ahead. Things are going to get REAL ugly in the good old
U.S. of A...and there isn't a ****ing thing our worthless piece of
**** government will be able to do about it. As budgets dwindle (all
levels of government) you will see less law enforcement services,
emergency services, etc... So if your $1.5 million house catches fire
while you are caught up in a home invasion, call a CEO from an
American public corporation for assistance.
Yep! GREED IS GOOD. Just keep believing that. Keep putting money
before your fellow man and country...it's the best thing you can
possibly do--for our competitors and enemies.
The collapse of this former superpower will be one to behold. Never
in this planet's history will anyone ever see one going out kicking
and screaming like this one!
But hey, there is a silver lining to this. At least we can say that
we have the fastest growing tent cities in the world and there isn't a
country in this world that can keep up with our growth rate!!
Each day the world has more fodder on us to laugh at as they kick us
and our credibility to the curb.
Thank you Jesus for Yale!! Because without the charlatan ****suckers,
we could not have the likes of Bush infesting 1600 Pennsylvania Ave--
for two goddamned terms!!
ALTADENA, California (CNN) -- When she was laid off in February,
Patricia Guerrero was making $70,000 a year. Weeks later, with bills
piling up and in need of food for her family, this middle-class mother
did something she never thought she would do: She went to a food bank.
Patricia Guerrero was laid off in February. Desperate to make ends
meet, she recently went to a food bank.
1 of 2 It was Good Friday, and a woman helping her offered to pay her
utility bill.
"It brought tears to my eyes, and I sat there and I cried. I was like,
'This is really where I'm at?' " she told CNN. "I go 'no way;' [but]
this is true. This is reality. This is the stuff you see on TV. It was
hard. It was very hard."
Guerrero is estranged from her husband and raising her two young
children. She's already burned through her savings to help make ends
meet, and is drawing unemployment checks. She has had to take extreme
measures to pay for her interest-only mortgage of $2,500 a month. In
fact, her mother moved in with her to help pay the bills.
Guerrero even applied for food stamps, but was denied.
"I never used the system. I've been working since I was 15-and-a-half.
I needed it now and it turned me down," she said.
Stories like Guerrero's are becoming more common as middle-class
Americans feel the pinch of an economic downturn, rising gas prices
and a housing crunch, especially in a state like California that has
been rocked by foreclosures.
On Wednesday, a key government report on the battered housing market
found new home sales fell to their lowest level in 13 years in
February, suggesting the nation's housing market is still struggling.
Americans also have been attending in large numbers foreclosure fairs
where mortgage lenders, financial planners and counselors offer tips
to hard-hit homeowners.
"Our economy is struggling, and families in the 'Inland Empire' and
across the nation are hurting," California Rep. Joe Baca said,
referring to an area of Southern California in his district.
"Our housing market is in a state of crisis due to rampant abuses of
sub-prime lending, and unemployment is rising. At the same time, the
cost of necessities such as gas, healthcare, and education continue to
rise.
Daryl Brock, the executive director of Second Harvest Food Bank in
California's San Bernardino and Riverside counties, said his
organization supplies food to more than 400 charities in metro Los
Angeles, from homeless shelters to soup kitchens to an array of food
banks. While the majority of people they help are working poor
families, he said they have seen some major changes.
In the last 12 to 18 months, Brock said, the agencies he supplies have
begun seeing more middle-class families coming to their doors.
"Our agencies have said there is an increasing number of people coming
to them for help," Brock told CNN by phone. "Their impression was that
these were not people they normally would have seen before. They
seemed to be better dressed. They seemed to have better cars and yet
they seemed to be in crisis mode."
He added, "The only thing they can do is give us anecdotal evidence
that they think it's because of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown and
the housing crisis."
A former loan processor, Guerrero knows all about that, although so
far she has been able keep her house.
She used her tax refund to help pay many of her bills for the first
two months, but now that money's gone.
She says she's now in a middle-class "no-man's-land."
"It just happened so fast. It happened in a matter of -- what -- two
months," she said.
She's eager to get back to work and to hold onto her home until the
market turns. But for this single mom, every day it becomes harder to
hang on.
"It's just depressing," she said. "For me, I just don't want to get
out of bed, but I have to. That's my hardest thing. I have to."