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Apparently banks that are foreclosing on apartment buildings whose owners have not kept up with payments are sending the sheriff to throw tenants out without any notice, even though the tenants have never missed a rent payment or received any indication that their landlord was in foreclosure.  The sheriff has refused to continue following the abusive practice of throwing families out into the streets with such casual disrespect for humanity by not giving them any notice.  He’s angry that banks are demanding he throw people out on the street with all they own when those people are innocent of any wrong doings and have been paying their bills.

"Mortgage companies are supposed to identify a building's occupants before asking for an eviction, but sheriff's deputies routinely find that the mortgage companies have not done so”, Sheriff Dart said.  "These mortgage companies don't care who's in the building.  They simply want their money and don't care who gets hurt along the way.  On top of it all, they want taxpayers to fund their investigative work for them. We're not going to do their jobs for them anymore. We're just not going to evict innocent tenants. It stops today", Sheriff Dart said Wednesday.

The Illinois Bankers Association said, "The reality is that by ignoring the law and his legal responsibilities, he is carrying out 'vigilantism' at the highest level of an elected official".  They demand their legal right to throw out everyone in the building because they foreclosed on it, and apparently they don’t believe they have any moral responsibility to act with a shred of humanity to anyone because the law does not demand that they do so.

Once again the bankers prove they are abusive to the extreme and totally brain-dead to boot.  You’d think they’d throw the landlord out and want to keep the tenants who are paying their rent, but I guess you’d have to have at least a moronic level of intelligence to grasp this simple concept.  Is it any wonder so many banks are going bankrupt?  Why is the government bailing out these vile and abusive businesses run by the brain-dead?  And no, I don’t buy into the political lie of needing to prop them up to protect the people.

What a surprise to see the $700Billion bailout rejected.  I guess their fear of not being re-elected had an affect to temper their panic and arrogance.

What course will they pursue now though?  Will they just resort to more arm twisting, and incentive offerings, to again try to pass it instead of taking a time off and finding a more sensible approach to protecting the economy?

Many of the politicians still do not grasp the need to encourage the intelligent re-employment of the people for the economic protection of the country.  The people are the economic engine of the US consumer driven economy and if ignored the economy will fail.  You cannot ignore changing the oil in your vehicle engine and expect the motor will not eventually fail, nor can you remove parts from the engine or not replace failed parts of the engine and expect it will continue to function.  The removal of such a massive number of jobs from such a structured economy, by itself, was a recipe for disaster.  The greedy bad mortgage loans just speeded up the inevitable.  A solid and growing employment and new business base would have reduced the effects of the bad loans scandal.  Add in the fact that employed people get bank loans and buy everything, including Wall Street stocks, and that additional companies created by the right economic promotion will also contribute to increased equity created in-country and also additional Wall Street stock opportunities.  New business and employment growth creates new equity and promotes the free flow of capital.

Terrorists attacked Washington and took over the country!!!

It looks like the US lost the war on terrorism!  The homegrown terrorist George W. Bush and his gang of economic “experts” got the politicians to crumble and cower in fear in Washington.  The politicians have agreed to hand over $700Billion to the terrorists who said they may yet demand more.  The politicians have agreed to promote the terrorists agenda, and to assist them in their continued destruction of the country.

The terrorists said loans are harder to get so we must give a bunch of money to the greedy incompetent bankers who were the main cause of this economic threat so everyone can more easily get loans from them again, which is of course exactly the formula that got us into this mess in the first place.  They said, “After all, why should we allow the (unnamed) recession to continue for awhile when we can promote the occurrence of a depression of such massive proportions that it could easily bankrupt the country instead?”

No one should be stunned that the mortgage crisis is continuing.  The banks have been selling sub prime mortgages for years, not just the past few months that they have been switching to their higher rates that are causing the failures, so those mortgages will continue to kick into their higher interest rates for years to come to continue the defaults.  Add in the fact that those defaults affect the values of properties around them which will continue to push other people into just walking away from their homes.  Add in that so many good paying jobs are being exported to countries like China and India so a lot of us locals can no longer afford to make our mortgage payments with our lesser paying jobs when in all likelihood our home is not worth the mortgage we hold on it anyway.  Add that all these job losses causes a reduction of local spending which results in even more local people being laid off which increases the competition for the fewer available jobs and you get a continuing cascading effect from all these forces.  Now add in the job losses associated by the high cost of gas and oil that affects the costs of all products to this mess and you have another factor that will ensure this will continue for a long time.  Let’s include the foolish use of food crops to be converted to fuel to burn which will add additional costs to everyone’s food that is already going up because of higher fuel costs anyway, and that also adds to the worldwide loss of available food to feed us people of the world.  These are but a few of the many factors that will continue to drag down the US economy and threaten the future of the country.

Politicians can only see as far as the next election and for the most part haven’t any training in any field that would help them to understand anything other then how to babble deceit to get reelected to continue feeding off the public trough while pretending they are superior to the people who are the country.  They have been kissing the backside of special interest groups for years to get their funding to run their next election campaign, and many of them are always engaged only in electioneering during their full time in office.  Consider the large number of lawyers who are politicians and how their trade is exactly the same which is the babble of deceit to confuse the issue to win regardless of the costs to others or to the country as a whole.  It is always only about them.

So long as we worship unbridled democracy and capitalism instead of God we can only expect more of the same.  When you see something is not working right and continue to ignore it instead of fixing it then only blind fools will expect things will somehow change for the better.  If our vehicle brakes don’t work right do we ignore it and expect things will get better?  God gave us an excellent brain and it only makes sense to use it.  We should not continue to encourage the lowest worldwide found rules to regulate business because it is proven that a lack of concern for life and our environment is the result.  The wealthy and companies should not be allowed to continue the casual destruction of our world and people’s lives just because they are called businessmen and capitalists.  Catering to selfish greed has proven to be a failure so it is time for frameworks to be designed for people and companies to work within, something that maybe we’ll choose to call governing.

Why are we not teaching electricity creation and concepts, and coding programming methods in all our Grade Schools?  Please don’t reply with the usual poor excuses as the question is rhetorically asked as an introduction to this teaching concern.

What does this teaching lack bode for their future to compete in an increasingly fast paced high tech world?  How about their and our short term future?  Our people’s skills must be always, and quickly, updated to keep up with and to create the new technologies used and wanted by the world of us.

Their world is full of electricity, and electrically powered and programmed devices.  They will more easily fit into their world if they are given an early introduction into understanding as many of their world relevant subjects as thoroughly and quickly as they can.  As technology progresses the skills for the new technologies should be taught to all our children and the necessary equipment for study and experimentation should be made available to them as soon as possible, considering copyright and other protection concerns.  An example is to also now include light fiber laser manipulation methodologies and the generally understood light frequency reflection and passing theories that have been used in mass communications delivery for many years now, to further relate and make relevant their education to their world of now and the future.

It would also be smart to teach money management extremely early, as this is a very important skill requirement needed for a better chance of success in their personal and business lives.  An easier way for most people to learn math, or other subjects, is by applying the teaching to real life needs and interests so the learners will have an easier way of grasping the concepts through association usage.  Even in school new technologies or concepts can emerge as various types of thinkers are introduced to greater amounts of the knowledge we currently have, and even the very young can have a leap in understanding that will usher in the wonders of the future.

Do we want our schooling of our children to be relevant to give them a better chance to have a decent and successful life?  The more they know about their environment, and that includes the financial needs and technology in their environment, the better chance they’ll have to survive in and contribute to their society.  We should prepare them so they will be able to move more freely between the many employment changes they will have to address during their lives as they strive to be more valuable employees and contribute to their society.

We need for our children to receive the best education we can think of so they can invent and produce the technologies of the future, and so they can better ensure the continued viability of our communities by their success.

The best way for us to permanently reduce our gas costs is to reduce petroleum demand worldwide, and the real cost is not just the current fill-up value at the pumps but also what it costs us and the planet in getting and using this energy source.

It makes no sense to go down the additional polluting path of increasing petroleum refineries, and of pumping out and shipping around these large volumes of oil to cause further destruction to our environmental requirements for life.

The more non petroleum electricity we produce for all our power requirements the less the demand for oil sourced power will be.  And ensuring local communities have their own power sources will provide a level of protection for these communities against excessive fuel cost increases and any disruption in their power sources from outside influences.

Can you imagine walking around your community without having to breathe in the foul poisonous fumes of vehicle exhausts?  We could live like that if our leaders choose to promote it.  This lifestyle will help reduce many health problems and help reign in health costs increases also.

We need to remember that our country and world are made up of small communities.  All these communities need to be nurtured and protected because together they make up our cities, states and countries.  Local community security is not just about guns or borders, as things like local employment and energy are also very important.  The best protection for our local community is the protection of all the communities around us as well, and many communities everywhere in the world would benefit from having their own local power sources even if just to provide their drinking and crop irrigating water.

We need leaders who will protect us from threats and lead us intelligently through our lifetime and into the future.  That is why we choose leaders, make councils and create governments.

I try to communicate intelligent thoughts for our leaders to consider, like in my open letter to politicians, at sites like:

http://www.myspace.com/josephthepoet

http://rhymster.com/members/Joseph_McNeil/

The attack into Iraq was swift and well done, but no plans were made for after sadistic Saddam was removed from power.

Without equipment, supplies and people landing to assist in helping the Iraqis immediately in starting the rebuilding of their country the Iraqis were instead left to sit around stewing in their misery which allowed the anti-America forces to gain unrestricted access throughout the country.  If there had been any intelligent planning on what to do after wresting control from Saddam’s forces then the people would have acted against those who wanted to come in and cause problems in their country instead of turning a blind eye to them.

President Bush and the UN argued over who would create the Iraqi government while they totally ignored the plight of the people.  That is not what liberators act like, or even what a smart conqueror would do.  How could they have not realized that they must address the plight of the Iraqis if they wanted to stabilize the country?  The first few days gave proof that the Iraqis first welcomed the US troops, but that advantage was lost when the US offered up nothing to improve their lives.

The same lack of insight in understanding, or maybe simply a lack of caring about, the plight of the people is causing the failure of the US today as well.  How can anyone honestly think that exporting the good paying jobs of the country’s people, without replacing them with equally valuable local employment, will somehow help the country?  And allowing businesses to do anything they please, like the financial institutions abusing mortgage lending practices that promote the failure of those mortgages, is further proof of incompetence in governing.

President Bush’s government is throwing money around like a madman and enacting policies that destroy the economic stability of the country’s masses, yet all his “experts” fail to see the coming fall.  The US needs a government that realizes that the people, the masses not the few extremely wealthy, are the country.  If the masses fail financially then the country fails too.

Is the US in a recession?  I think the worst is yet to come.

The American dollar is becoming a liability.  The smart money is switching to the Euro.

Soon the world’s big oil suppliers will demand oil be priced and paid in Euros instead of the continually faltering American buck, and we’ll have to buy imported oil using Euros because no one will want to get stuck with US dollars.

Still the US legislators insist on throwing $160 Billion foolishly into the market as a pretended economic stimulation package, instead of using the money to promote the country towards a financially stable footing by requiring the money be spent in specific US markets that will stimulate and protect our economy.

People without good jobs can’t spend the money our country needs to sustain our consumer driven society or pay the taxes our government needs to operate and pay its bills, so we have to create many new jobs to replace the large number of good paying jobs that have been moved out of the country.  And the more locally produced power we create the less oil we’ll need to import to meet our needs.  It can’t get any simpler than that.  These two simple factors in an equation that will help protect or destroy our economy, depending on whether or not we properly address them.

The $160 Billion should be mostly spent to promote local business and employment growth in local energy creating, and some other infrastructure works as well.  It wouldn’t require waiting until May to create economic activity and the money would be already spent promoting the US economy before the $160 Billion is given out by the government under the right plan.

The US has little time left to protect against the economy tanking big time.

My “Open Letter to North American Politicians” addresses the threats we are facing and I continue under “The US Stimulation Package 1 and 2”, at: http://community.myfoxstl.com/blogs/JosephThePoeta>