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CBS News Shows How A Growing Scam Is Exploiting Homeowners In Foreclosure

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by r-morris1981 July 14, 2007 11:17 AM EDT
Victims of these foreclosure rescue scams are fighting back in courts all over the country. For links to these and other stories on foreclosure rescue, go yo the blog The Home EquityTheft Reporter at:

http://HomeEquityTheft.blogspot.com

then click link for Foreclosure Rescue Posts.
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by bennyblack1 July 14, 2007 11:16 AM EDT
oops...I CAN only say...return to the Bible...
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by whatithink-2009 July 14, 2007 11:14 AM EDT
bennyblack1 wrote: "This lady did not take care of herself."

- This woman is 70 years old and had a major illness. Have you no shame???
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by bennyblack1 July 14, 2007 11:13 AM EDT
And let me add, that since I wasn't taught properly early in life, that everyone else should come before me, I'm in this hole I can't dig myself out of. It's too late for me, and I just can't expect anyone else to fix it. It's gonna take me until death to fix it, and if it isn't fixed, society will pay for the church's erroneous doctrines. I can't only say, at this junction, return to the Bible. It's the only thing you can trust to tell you the truth.
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by whatithink-2009 July 14, 2007 11:09 AM EDT
bennyblack1,

You profess to be a Christian but you would be the first person to call Jesus a deadbeat!! Have you ever wondered why God came back as someone poor instead of someone rich?

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by bennyblack1 July 14, 2007 11:02 AM EDT
whatithink
The more you talk, the more of what you think sounds crazy. Wake up, smell the coffee, and look around you. If you knew me, you would know that I'm a struggling Christian that would be the first to tell you that I'm "not all that." I would also be the first to tell you Christian principles about borrowing and loaning money. I would also be the first to tell you that God expects his people to plan, work the plan, and finish the plan. He also expects them to know when the plan will fail, and bail. I will be the first to tell you that you DO NOT invest in something that is unprofitable, you DO NOT borrow what you cannot pay back, you DO NOT loan money to people you know will not pay you back. You DO NOT give away money if you cannot pay your own bills and feed yourself after you have given. You simply take care of yourself FIRST, then if you have to give after, do so. The church had me so screwed up for the longest time, but now I know the truth. God commands that we first and foremost take care of ourselves. This lady did not take care of herself.
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by bennyblack1 July 14, 2007 10:51 AM EDT
speaketruth2

Knuckle dragging inbred? I'm a Germanic-Polish Indian Jew.
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by bennyblack1 July 14, 2007 10:48 AM EDT
Whatithink;
Well, you still don't know the difference between empathy and sympathy. I have loads of empathy. I have so much empathy for her that I pity her, which is a lower form of empathy. That means, that you just look at the person and shake your head while walking on by. You still can't do anything about it. I just don't have sympathy for her. She had ample opportunities to do the right thing. She KNEW long before hand what was going to happen, and she wasn't proactive. She was going to lose the house one way or the other. If it was a matter of pride, memories, and emotional attachment, still, I've learned that you don't let those things get in the way of making good decisions. I'm sure that she was warned.
And, Paris Hilton, yes, is just as bad.
Oh, and by the way, if you're gonna fight for this lady, then by God you'd better fight for me.
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by truthspeake2 July 14, 2007 10:17 AM EDT
To ALL the racist knuckle-dragging inbreds here, your world is getting smaller and smaller each and every day!
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by whatithink-2009 July 14, 2007 9:35 AM EDT
markjessup,

Some should be learning who think that racism is dead that it is surely not...thanks to your post.

This is the really problem with racism. It prevents people from having empathy with another human being. That is a tragedy for humanity.

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by whatithink-2009 July 14, 2007 9:31 AM EDT
bennyblack1,

You have still failed to explain to me how you can turn this into a race issue and not turn Paris Hilton's issue into a race issue. How can one be old whining black woman and the other not be young whining white woman? The only reason I can tell is that if you use white, you will be including yourself and we know you don't want to do this because you are so perfect.

The fact is that the minute a black person brings race into the topic, you are the first to harp on someone playing the race card. Yet, you find it completely okay to bring race into the topic. You do not see the hypocrisy in yourself??
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by ramos937 July 14, 2007 8:45 AM EDT
The only ones who should suffer from this subprime mess are the lenders. When I borrow from my bank, they require sufficient proof that I can pay back the loan. If I cannot, while it is a stain on my credit record, they suffer the loss as they should if I submitted good documentation. That is the way it should be with the mortgage lenders. They have lending guidelines established by law and by their industry. If they violate those, then they should be ones suffering the loss not the borrowers.

When I borrowed to buy my house a while back, I had to prove I could pay back the loan which I did.
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by oakishpines July 14, 2007 6:32 AM EDT
i knew an old one once what slept with guns afraid to leave the house and afraid to stay in it, paying t.v. preachets to keep god on her side tho she had a war hero child in law. she deserved a society to bus her around and shower her with food and medicine and spaces all ocver to rest and epic quests to cure common deaths.

folk should rally around get well soon feed the world sick beds instead of around get sicdk soon tax the world flags and bibles.

crossing the ocean or walking on the moon or swimming to pluto is relatively easy: having the faith that one may do so is the far more challenging step.

to look upon an infinite number of worlds is to glance, to seek out the infinite number of world still left unseen is to stare.

imagination is infinity with an infinite exponent.

if one shares just a handful of thoughts or other dances or other bouquets each day with a slitely more large handful of folk and some of those folk tip: a minimum wage income may not be too far away

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by tnt1954 July 14, 2007 6:29 AM EDT
sad sob stories i could tell by the zillions.
right now, one of my 40 x wives is a sad
sob story, but keeping her head above water.
both her brothers were murdered. her husband
was murdered, but the authorities ruled it
a suicide. her dad is dead, her mom was
conservatorized by crooked relatives who
took all her money and gypped her daughter.
she lives in her car, and comes by to see
me now that all her fairweather goodtime
charlies have left her. i give her some
cash for food and gas and for her cellphone
so she can get art customers and dates, out
of my disability check. i just go without,
or shop real cheap. is there a reward for
that? not really. i just couldn't live with
myself if i was a cold blooded mackerel.
there are sad sob stories nowadays like that to fill
all of sea world with fish.
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by tnt1954 July 14, 2007 6:09 AM EDT
that's one thing about the land of opportunity.
you have opportunity to get wealthy, but also
you have the opportunity to lose every dime,
end up homeless, and even go to prison.
singing the blues? ya gotta plenty of company.
when i think i'm a sap, i think of a us marine
who got shot through the head, while bending
down to pick up a kid who just got shot through
the arm. communist always say when they
take over a country to the rich who suddenly
'lose' everything, just like you told us
for years and years, life ain't fair. oh
yes, turnabout is fair play. or is it?
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by nyckate July 14, 2007 4:58 AM EDT
zootallures2 - people are losing their homes because they weren't sophisticated enough to understand the mortgages they were obgliating themselves for and thieves always take advantage of those people - good decent hard working mostly blue collar workers.

And yet these are the same people that Bush wants to have invest their own social security??

I have always felt and feel more strongly that a better educated, better informed American is the best thing for the nation - then not only would we NOT have a guy named Bush in teh white house )even as the janitor!) but people might be more adept at their own finances. THe likes of sob george is supposed to look out for these working class people -- yet another job he failed the nation on.

Also, yaboos like Hannity and Rush keep preaching that the economy is GREAT - GREAT and GREAT. Yeah it is - if you are a hughly paid executive or a trust fund kid like George is - for the ordinary american prices of everything keep going up and salary rises are not going up at same rate.
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by ringading3 July 14, 2007 4:24 AM EDT
Some people want to be "victims" so the con artist realtor and con artist mortgage broker "enable" people to buy who should never buy in the first place. It is *** expensive to buy a house, maintain it, insure it and keep it. Some people will never have the smarts to do this and they should never buy.
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by zootallures2 July 14, 2007 4:08 AM EDT
"The number of Americans struggling to pay their mortgages is higher than it's ever been before."

Then how can unemployment be down, retail sales up, and all the rest of the great economic news be true at the same time?

And what about the scam CBS is involved in? The whole nation really. How did building 7 fall? She lost her house? Iraqis and Afghans are losing their lives. Well, you are victims of your own moral-less system!
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by bennyblack1 July 14, 2007 4:07 AM EDT
oh, and when Paris Hilton was being treated "unfairly," I turned it into a stuck up, rich, snotty nosed brat having a tantrum. She's another one, using status for special treatment. She has NO excuse whatsoever. She's got millions. No college degree. A business partner running amuck with no responsibility, using her beauty to get by. Is it me being prejudice, or reasonably upset? The old Proverb goes, "A beautiful woman with no discretion is like putting ruby earrings on a pig's snout." And the pig uses his snout to root around in the mud.
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by bennyblack1 July 14, 2007 3:47 AM EDT
And she can still rent. Now, if she didn't apply for Social Security, well, again, she's over 67 years old. Why didn't she?
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