Thread: Senate Millionaires Kill Citizen Mortgage Relief

Poverty and Wealth in America: Senate Millionaires Kill Citizen Mortgage Relief


by Michael Collins
Global Research, May 2, 2009
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The United States Senate took a swipe at the spirit of May Day in a spectacular show of callous indifference when it voted down a bill to provide limited assistance to citizens at risk for losing their homes. The final vote was 45 in favor, 51 opposed to Senator Richard Durbin's (D-IL) mortgage assistance bill. The original version of the bill covered some but not all of those requiring assistance. The final version was even more restricted. It applied to only homeowners currently in foreclosure as a result of actions prior to the start of 2009.
The denial of assistance to citizens by Senators is ironic given the fact that the origins of the current economic crisis came from Senate legislative actions in 1999 and 2000.

While their avarice knows no bounds, their memory suffers.

Apparently these multimillionaire aristocrats of the Senate "gentlemen's club" haven't been watching the news. The International Monetary Fund declared that the United States is in a depression almost three months ago. Delinquency and foreclosure rates around the country are rising at spectacular rates. Unemployment has jumped by 3.3 million in the last five months. Economic growth has declined at a rate of 6.3% in the first quarter of 2009.

What part of economic crisis can't they understand? Apparently all of it.

Memo to stingy Senators: Workers and their families are in serious trouble or about to be in trouble. That means they lack the money to pay for their homes (also known as shelter, a basic human need). These citizens did nothing to bring on this crisis.

You, the members of the Senate, are largely to blame and you know it.

One of the most revealing remarks came from Democrat Ben Nelson (D-NE) who said:

“Do I want to have my rate go up so that somebody else might be able to cram downâ€

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Pension/Salary/Benefits CONGRESS; Poll/Vote and MORE!
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They just got at least a $3,000 raise. And at NC State Level they passed in the House a Bill going from $10,000 to $20,000 for a once spousal benefit at the death of elected or former elected? official. Doesn't every American deserve burial coverage by our government to the tune of $20,000? I think Social Security gives "We the People" under $300 for expenses?

Ain't it sweet to vote your own raises?

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