Obama Reaction Blues: A Response To So-Called Achievements – Women of Color

Who was rescued? Not the thousands of auto workers who had already been stripped of salaries and benefits by corporate heads whose incomes increased. Now, auto workers are expected to work at less than a fourth of their previous salaries. People who once were middle class are now poor, working class people who can never recover the lost income and homes and whose retirements will be spent in poverty.

This is an insult to the millions whose homes have been lost to foreclosures because of unpaid medical bills, lost jobs, and lack of capital to businesses owned by people of color and women of all groups. This is the most hurtful, deceitful propaganda. When people apply for this help, they receive many months of run-a-round, which includes time after time being asked to submit the same documents which the banks and mortgage companies claim they don’t receive, no matter how the documents are sent to them. The banks/mortgage companies supposedly working on loan modifications refuse to conduct business in writing, then lie about the conversations, often accusing the home owners as being liars and other derogatory comments. Anyone who refuses to be subjected to insult has their modifications canceled and notifications of intent to foreclose are sent out. Illegal collection harassment is rampant and can result in home owners receiving harassing calls every half hour, up to 12 hours a day. These behaviors surely are related to some of the suicides occurring. Women of color, who receive 48% of the foreclosures, also have the highest suicide rates in the country. People who submit all their documents for loan modification, then are unable to contact those who took the applications or the underwriters, who either don’t answer their phones or have their colleagues say they are out sick. An undercover investigation by ABC News, which revealed these practices, has not been widely publicized, nor have the efforts of those members of Congress fighting predatory loan practices. The Housing Rescue Plan which supposedly is administered by HUD is not. HUD only refers people back to their own mortgage company. It’s an endless circle which includes people making money by providing “credit counseling” to home owners facing foreclosure who are encouraged to give up their houses on short sales, after which they are homeless. There may be a few who have been helped, but they are likely someone’s cronies. The overwhelming majority of people are left dangling in the wind and listening to the insulting remarks of Obama-ites who believe the propaganda that there is real help on a large scale. There is not.

Another sham. This money has gone to the cronies of the politicians. Most of it was kept secret when it arrived until the cronies got it. Then announcements about it were made, after deadlines had passed. The poor, the homeless, the unemployed do not have access to this. The homeless are being shoved around in urban areas to keep their real numbers from being known. Whenever a large number of them stays in one area, the police are used to run them away with no real help or safe alternatives being offers. Those who are blind to the facts will always point to some rare and isolated example of a constructive action or some symbolic gesture as if it means something or helps those who are suffering. Does a starving person feel better by knowing or seeing on television that the Obamas and his administration are wearing the best clothes, eating great food, having dinner-theater dates in New York, site-seeing in Europe, and having fun on the beach in Hawaii? Meanwhile the children of the poor are dying from curable diseases and suffering from cancers resulting from exposures to pesticides while working beside their parents in the fields or living in chemically unsafe urban areas. The failure of people to check facts is appalling, especially with information at the fingertips via the Internet. It is easier to join in the dehumanization of others, ignore their suffering and believe in the fabricated propaganda that those who support the establishment will become prosperous.

This is a fabricated fantasy not worthy of long discussion. Anyone believing in this will not be able to be reasoned with.

This is certainly no achievement. This gave money to the rich with not strings attached and left the masses of the public without any help.

This is not an achievement of the Obama administration. Those closed came about because of the actions and pressure of European citizens. The US still operates and participates in others.

What has been done to aid the Somali people who have been left to starve to death in the millions, which is the situation which generated the Somali pirates trying to get resources for their people to live. Why are the circumstances of the Somali people ignored? Why are they expected to die without any efforts to save themselves and, if they resort to radical acts, are they deemed terrorists?

Isn’t this like keeping people in a concentration camp so there is no alternative to their deaths.

This is a benefit for those with money, as are most of the other benefits of the Obama administration, just like the other presidents before him. With millions having lost their homes to foreclosures and receiving no help, the wealthy now can buy up those homes and rent them out for profit and with their profits get tax write-offs like this or the Cash for Clunkers program mentioned next. Everything for the “haves,” nothing for the “have-nots.”

Not for the poor, unemployed and homeless.