“Most Basic Values” Bank of America video

“Most Basic Values” Bank of America video – Sent by ACE at Foreclosure Hamlet

What if we came together and made the nation’s largest banks like Bank of America follow the same rules as we all do around fairness and honesty, paying their…

Yes, that’s what we want – but we need to be united to get it.  Yesterday BofA broke a dime.  That means their stock plummeted below $10 a share – at one point it was at $9.88.  Like most of the banks there has been a snowball effect as people, companies and nations withdraw their funds and short the bank stocks.

Nothing the government can do, short of taking over the banks or propping them up with more money, can stop the declining stock – this is Capitalism shaking out its dirty laundry.  Raising the debt ceiling to pour more money into the failing banks is not the Capitalism that big business continually cries for whining that it will police itself. Continue reading

RSN Elizabeth Warren: A Real Probe Needed on Foreclosure Abuses

Readers Support Network – Amen!

Elizabeth Warren: A Real Probe Needed on Foreclosure Abuses
By Shahien Nasiripour, Huffington Post

15 July 11Prof. Elizabeth Warren, chairman of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau set up to oversee the TARP program, 04/21/09. (photo: Tim Sloan/AFP)

A top Obama administration official on Thursday questioned the scope of the state and federal investigations into alleged mortgage abuses and “illegal” foreclosures perpetrated by the nation’s largest mortgage companies, marking the first time a senior White House official publicly broke ranks with the administration over the issue and raising fresh questions about the wisdom of the government’s rush to settle with the firms.

Elizabeth Warren, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, told a congressional panel that government agencies may not have sufficiently investigated claims that borrowers’ homes were illegally seized by banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Ally Financial. Continue reading

E Komo Mai

E Komo Mai is “Welcome” in Hawaiian and said in the spirit of Aloha.

We are all converging together to unite for support and strength and there are millions of us across the country, in every nationality, culture, race and sex with identical problems.  We were all, one way or another, screwed by Wall Street. Some people call this a war of the classes.  Others identify this as bankster greed.  Whatever we call it – it is destroying families and the American Dream.

How did this happen?  Well, it wasn’t overnight.  The corruption has been penetrating legitimate business for years and the money has influenced lawmakers to make some very bad decisions. Continue reading