Watch this story. Listen to the stories of these crying kids. Look at the tears in their eyes. Listen to their questions. Pay particular attention to the quote from the one young girl, “I feel like it’s my fault.”
No, it’s not the fault of this crying, devastated, damaged 11 year old girl.
IT’S THE FAULT OF THE CRIMINALS ON WALL STREET AND THE CRIMINALS THAT WE ELECTED TO STATEHOUSES ALL ACROSS THIS COUNTRY WHO GUTTED THIS COUNTRY, WHO BLED US ALL DRY AND WHO HAVE LEFT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DEVASTATED.
It remains a sad country that we’re living in when kids are homeless, homes are vacant and in this state our “leaders” have introduced legislation that would throw families into the streets more quickly. Mind you no one in any position of purported leadership has taken any steps to punish the Wall Street titans that caused all this misery….NOT ONE.
What ever happened to Family Values? This story is an outrage, a national disgrace. It is heartbreaking to hear 11 year old Destiny Corfee describe living in a van with her parents and two siblings in a Walmart parking lot, and washing in the store’s restroom each morning prior to leaving for school.
Jorge Corfee described how they put all their possessions and family photos into storage, and later lost it all, seized and sold, when they couldn’t pay that bill. “Most of my stuff was in there; my scooter, my game system, all my games, my clothes. So I lost most of my stuff,” Jorge said. “I had so many of my toys and things. My Barbie dolls, clothes, and it was just all gone,” Destiny said.
President Obama dropped the ball on holding banksters accountable. This should not surprise anyone, big banks were big Obama supporters and control our government and our lives. Another thing, one of Wall Street’s most effective cops, Eliot Spitzer, was sidelined by a sex scandal. While Spitzer is slowly rehabilitating himself, one can only lament how things may have gone if he was at the top of his game.
Elliot Spitzer is the only American who ever took substantive action to stop Wall Street before it wrecked Main Street, according to the Draft Spitzer blog https://draftspitzer.blogspot.com/
“Spitzer v. AIG! How would one even begin to tell the tale of history’s ballsiest Attorney General attempting to take on what was then the most powerful corporation on earth? Here are some brief thoughts from Spitzer himself, which he shared in January, 2010 at The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco.
“I have sort of a unique relationship with AIG”¦. I started off tilting at windmills when we brought our civil case alleging all sorts of accounting fraud at AIG. And it was met with hue and cry from the financial world: ‘How can you say anything bad about AIG? It’s the best company in the world.’
“And I said, ‘You have to understand, this is the center of the web.’ And I would go home at the end of the day and say to my wife, ‘I feel like I’m stuck in this web and this giant black widow is about to kill me but I’m telling you there’s something wrong with this company.'”
AIG received a $180 billion bailout from Americans like the Corfee family. AIG executives continued to receive big salaries as they ran the company into the ground. But the Corfee family didn’t do so well when they hit hard times. Welcome to America 2011.
Neil GIllespie
Ocala, Florida
No, can’t blame it all on Wall Street. Let’s put the blame where it belongs: “Obamanomics” and his greed for POWER (his dream is to be a dictator — it’s happening before your very eyes) and greed for PERKS he gets as president, and greed for MONEY he slurps off the top of corruption like Solyndra and Fast and Furious, and the corruption that surrounds him, his Chicago Mafia. That is WHY we are in the state we are in! The half of this country (thank goodness not me) who put that idiot in the Oval Office because he LIED and promised you socialism and spreading of everyone else’s wealth to the losers of society, said he would FIX the economy. This is HIS ECONOMY. And to think the moron actually thinks he has made the right choices! He thinks the American people are stupid? NOW who is stupid! With 9.1% unemployment, the continued loss of jobs, homes sitting vacant, foreclosures STILL on the rise, separation of families, loss of a triple A rating, and THAT is not the fault of Wall Street; it is the fault of Obama! Obama bailed out Wall Street with taxpayer money, and Wall Street pays to keep Obama in office — quid pro quo. Wall Street at least creates jobs. Obama destroys jobs!
This Obama administration has DESTROYED this country. Never in my lifetime (and I’ve had a long one) have I EVER seen such turmoil in the United States of America. He has DIVIDED a country he told his cult followers he would bring together. Class warfare: divided rich and poor, black and white, Muslim and every other religion. He is the most destructive president in history. Jimmy Carter was a saint compared to Obama.
What the heck is wrong with America that we don’t impeach this fraud in the White House! The fraud who has so far paid over $2 million to keep his records sealed, and apparently, he’s getting away with it “again” by not submitting the appropriate paperwork (birth cert, college records, health records, etc) like the rest of the candidates have to do.
Wake up America. This is insane! To allow this man to continue “shoving” America on a path into the abyss is unbelievable! Get him out of office — NOW — don’t wait until 2012! That just gives him more time to continue with his intended eradication of free America. He hates America. He hates the free market. He hates the middle class. He hates small business. He hates whites. My goodness! what is going on here! His rhetoric manages to suck in the puppets! Are they going to let him pull their strings “again”? Another 4 years and you can kiss America goodbye!
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