Now this sh*t is Un-American! While the Unable/Unstable ticket takes this election for a joke, putting more focus on gimmicks than real solutions, Americans are losing everything. Between Palin and McCain, they own 10 or more homes, 15 cars, 2 planes, a snowmobile and a damn partridge in a pear tree.
The real desparation of a 90 year old woman trying to hold onto the only thing she has left, below the fold....
WTF? What country is this, dammit?! A civilization that cannot care for its sick and elderly - is this our shining example to the world?
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - A 90-year-old Ohio woman, facing eviction from the home she has lived in for 38 years, shot and wounded herself this week, becoming a grim symbol of the U.S. home mortgage crisis.
Addie Polk was found lying on the floor of her home with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to her shoulder when police came to the home on Wednesday to serve an eviction notice, Akron police spokesman Lt. Rick Edwards said on Friday.
Polk survived the shooting and is being treated in a hospital.
It was the latest attempt by sheriff's deputies to evict Polk from her modest single-family home because she could not keep up with her mortgage.
"It appears they're evicting her over her mortgage. She's lived in the house, the neighbors said, something like 38 years and in the last couple of years fell prey to some predatory lending company or financial institution," Edwards said.
Local news reports said deputies had tried to serve Polk's eviction notice more than 30 times before Wednesday's shooting.
Home foreclosure rates are at record highs in the United States, in many cases because buyers with adjustable interest rates could not keep up with sharp increases in monthly payments. The foreclosure crisis has sparked a wider housing market downturn and is at the heart of the U.S. financial crisis.
http://www.reuters.com/...
We must honor Grandpa Harold, Pop Pop, and now Addie Polk and all the awesome grandparents and parents who sacrificed, raised families and worked hard for this country without asking or expecting a thing in return, who - without a hero's welcome or fanfare have truly given themselves to build a better country. They deserve to know that this country will be in better hands this time and that we will work our hearts out to make that happen.
Ohioans - get your asses out and register NOW and vote! Ms. Addie Polk needs you. America needs you. Please. And that goes for residents and neighbors of every battleground state! Seriously, I am sick of stories like this. I am sick of our elderly suffering for food, shelter and medication. I want Obama to win in a landslide. I want to beat the Republicans so fucking badly that they have to change the name of the party going forward, it's so shit-soiled. Have them resurrect the "Bull Moose" party name, I don't care - but I want the Republican brand to go down in falmes this November.
I do not know who Ms. Polk supports for President. But what I do know is that Barack supports her. Get well soon, Ms. Polk. A Change (the right change) is Going to Come.
*Update: Fannie Mae holds the loan and will forgive it based on the circumstances. 30 attempts at eviction and the woman has to shoot herself to get some help. CNN story update below. http://www.cnn.com/...
Sorry for the already diaried topic. I didn't see it before, but I'll keep this one up because it looks like some others were in the same boat I was.