scared for the first time in my life!!!
Posted by admin on September 2nd, 2009
Realized — just today actually — that I’ve been upset for the past several months ’cause for the First Time In My Life I am scared. “Frightened” is not in my nature. I’ve actually had nightmares and dreamed of the “Wolf at The Door,” in banker’s clothing.
Of course that made me mad at the mortgage lenders scaring me, so I’m reaching out to the only people I think that can do anything about it, which would be producers of movies and television series. (Book publishers could also, but the traditional book publishing process is staggeringly slow, and too many people no longer read.)
One of the most important things to many (most) of us is housing. For millions of Americans, that is now threatened and little is being done about it. Lots of diatribe; no actual results. If I . . . as the 5th generation of my family in California (and 7th in Maine) . . . am frightened, how do the new(er) immigrants feel about moving to the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave with the promise of a home, a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage? Many escaped from Wherever to find peace, opportunity and freedom only to be told “Oh, too bad, you have to move. You have lost your home. Oh, you didn’t read the mortgage papers correctly. All 9,000 words. So sorry.”
Recently in The San Francisco Chronicle, Matier and Ross commented about a man who has lost his home because the “bank” wouldn’t negotiate. What about naming the banks when these stories are told. Matier & Ross must have wanted to as they are responsible journalists, but I’d bet my eye-teeth that they were stopped at the corporate level because that “bank” is probably an advertiser. So much for truth in journalism.
Some weeks ago, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat told the story of James Madison, a Santa Rosa Coldwell Banker agent, who is proud of how much money he is making by “helping” people get out of their homes so he could sell them to someone else. He has approached CRYING men who have to leave their homes. I don’t know James Madison. I don’t want to know him. He is a shark swimming in blood-filled waters. I feel sorry for his wife and children. I feel sorry for him. What goes around comes around.
If magazine/newspaper advertisers cover the expenses — and they do with print as subscriber income has never even covered the cost of paper — then the paper sells out as appropriate to underwrite the bottom line . . . especially now with dwindling dollars from all directions. Hey, it’s business.
Some banks need to have their Charters pulled (which was suggested to me by a successful politial activist.) I have filed a Congressional Inquiry into the bank I am most upset with (name to come later). They are taking tax-payer dollars and they are not helping taxpayers.
Danny DeVito produced Erin Brockovich. First letter is going to him. Hollywood Reporter reaches everyone we need. Letter went to them this a.m. Clint Eastwood kissed me once at a cast party — his idea, not mine — however, maybe I can get through to him (and occasionally I’m sorry I missed what that might have lead to; I left for yet another party).
Of course, I wrote to Dr. Phil — in the section asking to send in stories about American cities that have parties that disagree . . . well, the whole of America disagrees on this one, although we have recently been diverted by news attention to flagging underwriting for medications (this IS a seriously drugged society . . . whether it be with actual prescriptions or food or “toys). People who have secure housing, be they apartment dwellers or home owners, think those of us in danger did “something to deserve it.” Well, they would be wrong. And I understand the “comfort” in thinking, “I did nothing wrong ever, so this dreadful economy won’t touch me.” Guess again. For 16 years I ran a successful fundraiser with this at the top of my mind: “There but for God go I.”
I love “Leverage,” “Burn Notice,” “Bones,” various “CSIs,” all of “Law and Order,” Lie to Me,” etc. A story on one or all of these is precisely what is needed to bring the expletive deleted banks to their knees (while somehow preserving jobs for all the fine people that are actually on the front lines).
Do you know that Wells Fargo has TWO, count ‘em two, class action suits against them? And do you know that Wells is now owned by a Texan? What IS it with that state?
More later . . .
And if you happen to be connected to a producer, PLEASE let me know and/or forward this.
What hard-working people are going through is positively insane. It’s just plain wrong. In a recent Twitter post, William F. Kane noted that according to Cuomo – Yahoo! News “Bonuses paid to executives at nine banks that received U.S. government bailout money in 2008 were greater than net income at some of the banks, the office of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday.”
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