Posted on 02/18/2009 3:23:15 PM PST by callthemlikeyouseethem
PHOENIX, Ariz. ACORN members are celebrating President Obama's announcement today of the "Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan," the first federal effort to fight foreclosures since the crisis that brought down the economy began two years ago.
For years, ACORN has been advocating repeal of the ban on judicial modifications, a central plank in the Obama plan that Congress should immediately take up in a must-pass bill and get to the President in March. Obama also proposes administrative actions to spend $75 billion of the Financial Stabilization Fund on facilitating modifications and to require companies receiving taxpayer assistance to use a rational foreclosure prevention protocol to prevent unnecessary foreclosures. These three planks are absolutely essential to repair our economy and are exactly what ACORN called for in its memo to the Obama Transition in January, "Housing for America: A Roadmap out of the Crisis."
"Finally, a President who is a friend of homeowners when it counts," said Bertha Lewis, ACORN CEO. "With 8 to 9 million Americans on the verge of losing their homes in the next four years, the nation's housing crisis demands leadership commensurate with its enormous scale, and we got that today from the Obama Administration. These effective sticks and carrots will do the job that the previous all-voluntary efforts have failed to do, and help prevent millions of unnecessary foreclosures once fully operational and enacted in law. Until that time, however, there should not be a single foreclosure on any family that could benefit from this comprehensive housing plan, so we need a thorough, binding moratorium."
(Excerpt) Read more at acorn.org ...
I believe those are in the “circular” file aren’t they?
Gee, a nut likes, nuts, who would have guessed it.
Me too. I just got his first ‘letter’ to me asking for money. I was going to call this week and ask if he can at least put limits on our money so that none of it goes to Specter,Collins and Snowe..or any other republican senator that pisses us off between now and 2010....lol
We should at least have a checkbox of who we want our money going to and who we do no when we donate to the RNC.
The current system was considered a fantastically generous innovation at the time it was created. Earlier the home was part of the bankruptcy and they could toss you into the street quite easily.
Apparantly ACORN and the Obamaistas want to roll back the current system and allow judges to consider the status of the residence in bankruptcy proceedings.
I suspect they haven't thought this out all that carefully.
Among the changes I refer to are pulling support for dopes like Collins,Snowe, and SPECTRE. Time to get real repubs in the primaries.
And 40% down to make sure the borrower has "some skin in the game".
Then we need to start calling and asking by the millions.
Now, these same non-qualified squatters expect that OTHERS should pay for their mortgages (because THEY can afford it), and The Messiah is pushing for yet another wealth-redistribution here.
HOW THE HELL CAN THE USSC SIT BY AND LET THIS GO ON?
“Just don’t pay...the ACORN way!”
ACORN demands an end to residents evictions
Group protesting to stop deputies from removing homeowners who have fallen behind on mortgages
By DAVID ELLISON and MOISES MENDOZA
Houston Chronicle
Feb. 17, 2009, 10:47PM
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in Houston and six other cities are planning to stage civil-disobedience protests to prevent deputies from evicting residents who have fallen behind on their mortgages.
Ginny Goldman, head organizer for ACORN in Texas, said the group already has 100 volunteers ready to mobilize the day after a homeowner gets a 24-hour notice of eviction. She said the supporters will send a message saying: Please dont remove these peoples furniture. Please dont evict this family. We are here to support them. They dont deserve to be thrown out in the street.
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Oh, I think it was well thought out well in advance.
I bet ACORN has a "credit counseling" wing....all set up to "advise" people on the mortgage bailouts. And Obama/Pelosi will shower BILLIONS on them for their trouble.
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If you haven’t seen this Michelle Malkin thread from today, please do!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2188255/posts
The ACORN “civil disobedience” campaign begins tomorrow...
Most of the money given to ACORN will stay with ACORN.
I think we should start planning protest marches on ACORN offices all over the country. I am sick of this crap!
No doubt ACORN has a scam or two in the fire, but the concept they are pushing extends far beyond their little inner circle of friends ~ the big boys who order up the multimillion dollar mansions in Florida (as a hedge against bankruptcy) will not be pleased!
I wrote a letter to my mortgage company (GMAC) asking them if I should stop paying on my loan. I asked why responsible people should have to subsidize irresponsible people. I said that I wanted to know what they are going to offer me, since I am responsible.
If we all contacted our mortgage companies instead of our congressman, we would have our own lobbyists. We should say that we are going to stop paying so that we can receive “fair” treatment, that is to say we want some of the pie.
“Finally, a President who is a friend of homeowners when it counts,” said Bertha Lewis, ACORN CEO.”
Finally we have a communist president she means.
this has to assure we regain control in 2010 and he gone in 2012 it just has too! he just erased welfare reform in the matter of a couple of weeks! damn do i hate this guy
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