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DEBT UPDATE: Watch as the Today Show aired a segment on the proposed Mortgage Bail-out. CNBC’s Trish Reagan did an excellent job of reporting on the crisis. Below is DEBT WARRIORS response to this frightening proposal.

To watch the video on MSNBC click here

  1. Greedy Banks and Investment Firms used Predatory Lending Practices.
  2. The Government turned a blind eye again and again.
  3. These companies persuaded Americans to apply for loans that they wouldn’t be able to afford.
  4. The terms went often undisclosed by Lenders.
  5. Borrowers were mislead by the millions about what they’d have to pay.
  6. Felons convicted of fraud were allowed licenses to broker loans.
  7. Many Investment Firms sold these loans they knew were too risky.
  8. The People who lost their homes may not get any help.
  9. The free market = Less Restrictions + Higher Risk – Losses. The free market is a gamblers game. These Investment Banks gambled with their money, now they want to gamble with yours and mine!
  10. You and I won’t see a dime from all of any profits that are created.

These Investment Banks tricked and then kicked millions of people out of their homes, took position of those houses, drove down the values and ruined entire communities. Now that they can’t sell their homes they want to unload them on the American Public. Give me a break!

DEBT WARRIORS are opposed to this for many more reasons than 10. You would be too if you knew what we know.
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It angers me that Felons convicted of fraud are allowed to work as Mortgage Brokers in Florida.

The Miami Herald in a stunning investigation, exposes dirty Mortgage Brokers like Brahms Alexis. The Herald reports that Brahms kept his state license for almost three years, even after Florida regulators and federal agents dragged him away from a closing in handcuffs. The Herald continues:

“In September 2005, agents with the Office of Financial Regulation — which oversees mortgage brokers — and the U.S. Secret Service videotaped Alexis brokering a bogus $890,000 loan.”

In June 2006, Brahms pleaded guilty to Identity Fraud but still KEPT his license! This is why we are DEBT WARRIORS! We’ve known that something isn’t right with the Mortgage Industry. The Mortgage Market is a tightly rolled ball of misuse, abuse, fraud and misery.

Another case, reports how Scott Almeida went on a crime spree, that stretched from Tampa to Miami, FL. Scott Almeida was involved in nearly $3 million in fraudulent loans and fleeced 30 people — many of them elderly and disabled.

In Florida, the Office of Financial Regulation was created to hold the Mortgage Industry accountable. But complaints were “routinely ignored”. According to public records, and interviews, customers were told “they’d have to fend for themselves”.

These stories and hundreds of millions of others compelled us to become Debt Warriors.  But only a Lawyer is adept at examining the contracts to see what Legal options the consumer has when they’ve been ripped off.

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” ~ The U.S. Declaration of Independence

With honor for God. We come to you today because debt a threat to our inalienable Rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Deregulation of Financial Markets as allowed a system designed to make Americans the new Indentured Servants the Status Quo.

Deuteronomy 23:19 says, “You shall not charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest.”

Yet why is the average Default Credit Card Rate is 32%? The average for a Credit Card ATM withdraw is 24% and the average interest rate for consumers in good standing is 18%.

  • For years American Consumers have been subject to tyranny at the hands of various 1st Party Credit Predators and 3rd Party Debt Collections Terrorist who unfairly usurp wages and earnings from often innocent and or unaware Consumers.
  • For years American Citizens of every walk of life have suffered the abuses of arbitrary charges, due date changes and largely undisclosed changes in credit terms.
  • Consumers are not educated by their Creditors as to what actions [or lack thereof] will trigger a launch of skyrocketing fees and interest for Consumer Accounts.
  • Creditors perpetrate acts of predatory lending upon our most trusting, undereducated and vulnerable citizens.
  • Lack of disclosure by lenders prevents American Consumers from making fully informed financial decisions regarding matters of debt.
  • Exorbitantly high interest rates on loans are unfair to American Consumers yet mostly unchecked by many of those who represent us in government.
  • Big Banks get bailed out while betrayed borrowers are berated for being violated by bogus transactions.
  • Scam home appraisals for sub-prime loans by some of Americas Biggest Lenders have been investigated for colluding with appraisers.
  • Medical expenses pull money out of American families earnings like a syringe. This in-turn sucks the life-blood out of the American Economy. The American Consumer is the Economy. Federal Reserve Board Chair, Ben Bernanke called for changes in Americas health care system. But those calls are ignored by all of the 2008 presidential candidates.
  • Mortgage brokers have been allowed to employ convicted felons to handle large sums of money for consumers. So far a combined 85 million dollars has been stolen from unsuspecting and unaware Consumers.
  • Auto Dealers use slick as oil sales tactics to slide in Addendum Stickers. Many “steal the trade” of the unwitting Consumer which takes the consumer for a ride worth thousands of extra dollars. The worst of the Auto Dealers tell Consumers to “kick the trade” which is illegal. This is why we must see most Auto Dealers as Credit Predators.
  • Cellular phone companies have been found guilty of violating the Unfair Business Practices Act in California, yet most people don’t know the laws that exist in their state.
  • 3rd Party Debt Collections personnel often act like terrorist. They call, harass, berate, and sometimes violate the law in heinous ways. They intimidate Americans with myths and half truths
  • The Big Three Credit Bureaus; Experian, Equifax and Trans-Union are considered by many to be indifferent to the errors and false information placed on Consumer Credit Reports.

Why do we rant so? Because we as Americans must become more debt aware. We must Declare War On Debt. We Must engage and rant and make positive change for our country.

We must be vigilant in our individual duty and responsibility to protect our Credit Standing and Financial Health. America, we must take the responsibility of becoming informed about the invisible land-mines in our back pockets and purses. We must act to prevent the financial catastrophe that awaits us in the form a a total market crash.

All of American Consumers must strive to live sustainably. We must learn to seed and grow and obey the Law of the Harvest.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Our lives begin to end the moment we become silent about things that matter”.

If you are in debt you are not alone. But are you the few who seek to win their war on debt with honor? Do you prefer to surrender to unfair business practices, mandatory arbitration clauses?

Or are you willing to educate yourself, enlist, go off to war against debt, fight back and return with honor and dignity?

If you are, we will help you become more debt intelligent. Join us and spread the word. Tell people that they can settle their debt for themselves.

Wishing you Financial Security!

We are Debt Warriors!