I’ve been reading some of the messages to the 1% at occupytheboardroom.org, and this one – and many others like it – say so much!
UNDERWATER
Hello. We paid cash for our house back in 2005. Now, it’s worth less than half what we paid for it, in spite of nearly $85,000.00 in improvements financed on our bank credit line. Why the price drop?
The bottom fell out of the FL market, thanks to reckless and selfish actions by banks and mortgage brokers. We are now surrounded by foreclosures and short sales and abandoned houses and weeds and trash and squatters — in what was supposed to be a beautiful, middle class suburban community.
We are seniors. I don’t think we’ll ever get out of this house alive. And folks like you are DIRECTLY TO BLAME for that!
Terrance Lanning
These letters run the gamut from heartbreaking to heartwarming, and make you want to get off your ass and do something to help. So let’s do it.
This morning, I spoke with my friend Howie Klein who blogs at DownWithTyranny.com and runs the Blue America PAC along with Digby and Crooks & Liars Founder John Amato…
I was also joined by my friend Cliff Schecter, who writes a weekly column for Al Jazeera English … we talked about everything from the occupy movement, to the future we see for our kids, to the new radio station he and a few others are launching next month in Washington, DC!