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Our Children Will Forever Pay For George Bush's War Crimes.
America in Foreclosure, And Wars That Cost $6 Trillion……(And The Murder of Innocent Children)
I wonder if we’ll see the day when George Bush and Dick Cheney will be prosecuted for their war crimes?
I wonder if the lies and the fraud that were used to send our nation’s men and women into a pillaging war of conquest will ever be accounted for?
I wonder if this generation of Americans will wake up and hold the war profiteers accountable for ransacking our nation’s treasury and wasting away all that our nation had saved?
I wonder if the chickenhawks, those cowards who never served in uniform and have no idea what the real honor of our nation’s military history is will ever be accountable?
I know we can never repay the debts that we all owe to the men and women who served their country in uniform….
You won’t see this reported in American media…but the cost of Bush’s wars is $6 Trillion…:
The fresh calculation – which includes the cost of spiralling veterans’ care bills and the future interest on war loans – paints a grim picture of how America’s future at home and abroad has been mortgaged to the two conflicts entered into by George W Bush in 2001 and 2003.
“There will be no peace dividend,” is the stark conclusion from the 22-page report from the Kennedy School of Government, “and the legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan wars will be costs that persist for decades.”
The report comes as the US prepares for a final withdrawal from Afghanistan, a move that Barack Obama trumpeted in his State of the Union address as a sign that America was finally moving forward after a sapping decade of war.
However the working paper by Professor Linda J. Bilmes makes clear that the true legacy the two conflicts – which have cost $2 trillion in actual outlays so far – have not yet even begun to be appreciated.
“There’s a sense that we are turning the corner, but unfortunately, the legacy of these wars, because of decision about the way we fought and funded these wars, means we will be paying the costs for a long time to come,” Prof Bilmes said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. “We may be mentally turning the page, but we are certainly not from a budgetary and financial perspective.”
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The banks are pulling a scam over our courts, our judges, our legislature and on every single taxpayer in this state!
What if The Banks Were Systematically, Repetitively And Knowingly Ripping Off The Courts In Foreclosure Cases?
If Florida’s judges, Constitutional officers as they are, became aware that in a significant percentage of the cases that pass their benches, the banks were ripping off the State of Florida? Would the judges have a duty to not allow the foreclosures to continue?
And no, I’m not talking about fraud or forgery or robo signing or any of the other crimes that are so well documented, I’m talking about a new scam that has become apparent. A scam so bold, so arrogant, so persistent that, well….only a banker and their foreclosure mill attorneys would contemplate carrying it out. It’s not at all complex. It’s just another one of those things that’s so blatant, so simple that no one ever thought to look at it.
Now granted, it’s gone unchecked under my radar screen for years and I don’t know of any other foreclosure defense attorney who’s raised the issue. There are very few appellate cases on the issue….only one directly on point. But in each of those cases, and in every time I’ve brought it before a judge….the judges have agreed with me…..
NO FORECLOSURE FOR YOU BANK UNTIL YOU FIX YOUR PROBLEM!
Now, like most defenses, it’s not a free house. Heck, it’s not even a defense really as much as it is a responsibility that the banks have been ignoring…..and we’ve all been letting them get away with it. It’s simply a requirement that banks play by the rules before they use our state resources.
But as our state’s court system continues on this mad dash to grant foreclosure judgments to those irresponsible and downright criminal organizations known as the banks, mark my words…
The banks are pulling a scam over our courts, our judges, our legislature and on every single taxpayer in this state!
Our state’s court budgets are cut every year. And our courts, rather than stand up tall, proud and powerful. Rather than exercise their status a co equal branches of government and force the legislative and executive branches to show us the respect that we are entitled to, our courts just bend and bow, subservient.
If a Foreclosing Plaintiff did not pay the correct, statutorily-mandated filing fee, the Clerk of Court would not issue a Final Judgement of Foreclosure until that fee is paid. I this new area, our judges should not be using precious taxpayer resources to reward the banks….and they certainly should not be rewarding the banks with title to properties, because they have:
Systematically, Repetitively And Knowingly Ripped Off Our State In Foreclosure Cases
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Foreclosure Rocket Dockets: they’re overlooking certain burdens of proof and other evidence that would never be tolerated in other proceedings
Foreclosure Judge: It’s a ROCKET DOCKET and I’m Churning Through 50 Cases A Day….
The foreclosure fraud fiasco continues unabated. In fact, the fraud continues quite nicely, thank you. No one cares anymore about all the fraud, the crimes, the lies.
But a much bigger and far more disturbing aspect of this whole fiasco is the fact that our state’s court system has turned it’s back on it’s most important Constitutional Requirement…
That it protect the integrity of the court system and defend The Constitution and the rights of citizens.
What is occurring in the state is a dramatic shift in court policy, procedure and outcomes. The Legislature has spoken, they have demanded that foreclosures move forward and our state’s courts are dutifully dancing to the tune called by the legislative branch.
What is this occurred in other aspects of our nation’s judicial process? What if the legislatures, flush with payouts and bribes from private prison corporations demanded new sentences and harsher prison sentences for criminals….so they could fill up prisons. (Oops, bad example…we’ve already got that….but you get the point.
This is of course, all madness. All parties involved admit just how blatant this is:
“There is a consensus across the state that the locked up backlog [of foreclosure cases] is contributing to Florida’s economic difficulties, and the only way out of this is through it,” said Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey, administrative judge for the civil circuit division. “We’ve been charged by the Supreme Court with this funding to move these cases.’’
But what about the larger and far more important questions about due process and protecting the integrity of the legal process? Our courts, thrown all this to the side so that our courts can help contribute to Florida’s economic difficulties. And is there not an outright admission that our courts have turned their backs on fraud, on crimes, on due process in order to accomplish the more important goal of our judicial branch….solving Florida’s economic difficulties?
But a most interesting thing will begin to occur in the months that will follow after this massive docket clearing exercise. What exactly will the impact be of tens of thousands of foreclosed properties hitting the market? What will the general public’s perception of the court system be when they realize the whole branch has turned its bank on The People and is instead rewarding the bad, bad banks? And what will The People think of The Courts once the inevitable horror stories of these Rocket Dockets begin trickling out? The elderly couple who have been making modification payments but got foreclosed on anyway? What about all the Final Judgments that will be entered based on grossly irregular documents. Oh, who cares….right? What difference does it make…after all, we’ve got an economic recovery to get along to….
From The Miami Herald:
Miami-Dade Circuit Court — choked with foreclosure cases, many dating to 2009 — has gotten tough on pushing cases through the system.
Five months into a state-funded project, Florida’s busiest circuit court is conducting hundreds of foreclosure trials a week.
With $626,000 in special funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, the court has added two senior judge slots and a staff of case managers to help clear a backlog of some 53,668 foreclosure cases.
“It’s a rocket docket,” said Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jon Gordon, a senior judge who is churning through about 50 trials a day.
Regular civil division judges also handle foreclosure proceedings, typically the more complicated ones, along with other cases.
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America is corrupt, and will fail. Mark Me. Because there is no Middle Class anymore... we are the people who actually do the work... But we've been forgotten by our corrupt system.
Mortgage Modifications Denied to Americans, Their Homes Sold To Investors in Foreclosure
Every day I see it, the banks that were bailed out by the American taxpayer will not approve mortgage modifications to the taxpayers that bailed them out.
They will, however, accept Deed In Lieu, Short Sales or Consented Foreclosure Judgments.
Americans are being forced out of their homes so that those same homes can be sold, for cents on the dollar, to institutional investors, hedge funds, the federal government and foreign interests.
When will the American people wake up? This is madness. Perfect madness. Government sponsored and court sanctioned. Here’s what one reader had to say:
NBC News reported yesterday that “Private Entities” backed be Hedgefund investors were buying up millions of homes across the U.S. by offering CASH, preventing most “average middle class buyers” from having a chance to get the home of their dreams.
I am facing Foreclosure after having tried four Loan Modifications. During the forth, I was advised by my lender, GMAC; which was Homecomings Financial Network when I purchased my home; then out of the blue became GMAC, which again out of the blue is now owned by OCWEN; that the chances of my home being refinanced at its true value in today’s market was a long distant possibility.
My OCWEN advisor told me it would be smart to try a Short Sale, which I am in the process of attempting. I put my home on the market and instantly got a call from my Realtor. She had received a CASH offer for the asking price which was in her opinion what the home was worth… without even a visit from the buyer. Site unseen. What does that tell you? After a conversation with my Realtor, she said the buyer was a group that were buying millions of homes across the U.S.
So I am not allowed to refinance my mortgage to its true market value, but Hedge Fund Managers who are the entity buying my home can do whatever they want to do.
America is corrupt, and will fail. Mark Me. Because there is no Middle Class anymore… we are the people who actually do the work… But we’ve been forgotten by our corrupt system.
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Senator Calls For Investigation of Florida’s Hard Hit Mortgage Assistance Program
The State of Florida is running a budget surplus….but they still refuse to help Floridians….
Sen. Bill Nelson is calling for a federal investigation of Florida’s Hardest Hit Fund, a $1 billion mortgage assistance program that has denied aid to thousands of desperate homeowners while helping felons, tax scofflaws and people chronically in debt.
Nelson’s request was prompted by a Tampa Bay Times investigation that uncovered dozens of homeowners with questionable backgrounds getting aid.
It also comes as state officials are moving forward with a plan that could change how some of the money is used. Starting in the Tampa Bay area, they propose spending $50 million in Hardest Hit Fund money to reduce loan principals, a boon to homeowners who owe more than their property is worth
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