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They call the loss of one's home a time for "The Perfect Storm".



Posted: Monday, June 02, 2008

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Yes the American dream of many going down the tubes and what do we see and hear, you got it, how to make money off of someone else's sorrow. Yes the hell with their grief someone has to and will and so why not me, right? Rhetorically speaking, now doesn't that speak a hell of a lot to one's character? What am I saying?

Well here is an example, one of many in the media and on TV, etc, speaking to buying homes cheap and selling them. Doesn't this sound familiar? "The Perfect Storm" is the headline as advertised by Donald Trump University. I only selected this illustration because there it was in a full page ad and it struck me hard as being an issue at the core of the nations problems. The advertisement speaks of now better time then now to buy up [the blood sweat and tears] oh, I'm sorry, that cheap real estate so many are losing to Foreclosure.

Yes, according to this advertisement " it is the most amazing market in decades". Quite frankly, in my opinion, didn't those who caused this "opportunity" already do that? Is this what it is all about in this life? You got it, wealth and more of it. Ok, I understand, why not capitalize on someone else's grief? Yes, I have written to this before so to repeat it is just redundant. Yes I have written to character, ethics, values so why repeat it? It really struck me that this entire page add in my opinion sums up everything wrong with America today. The story of the haves and the taking from the have not and how exciting and profitable it can be.

In my opinion it smells of greed, the lust for more and more, the exploitation of people at a time in their life of utter devastation and when they are most vulnerable. Hey, but you're right, someone has to do it.

You know, you can say it over and over and over again but truly in my opinion not many give a damn. They profess differently but where the tire meets the road, well you know what I mean. Yes they may read it and some say, yea he is right, while others, well they go and read something else. In fact many are just plain apathetic about it all. Can't do much about it so why bother. It is the way it is. Hey pass me some chips and is the coffee ready yet?

Well you know something I'm getting convinced. Yes each day that passes I'm even more convinced. In my opinion the few that understand and care could fit on a pin head and the majority, well simply put, as best one can in one word, MOO.

So as you look out that window and see those fore sale signs on the block you live on, your old neighbors going or gone, that home falling apart and empty and becoming run down because of NO BUYERS, because it takes people with money and credit to buy and where have they gone? You can bet someone off shore. Yes those "Credit Worthy types, who will buy and rent to anyone as long as they get theirs. Yes and the bank or finance company that owns it lets it rot way because, well they already got their write off, but you live with it and yes local government then it just might strike home, might? TYes and when it crumbles these Flippers of lives will turn around and you got it, sell again or walk away from your nice little neighborhood. Yes our fellow Americans at work flipping and making money and getting rich. Yes just like the last batch that thought this way and yes those who have and want more of it. Oh, and as all this happens our governement sits and ponders and thinks and does nothing. It is complex you know. People, hurt, pain, suffering, hey we feel for you but you really shouldn't have gotten yourself in this mess to start with.

So in my opinion we have come full circle and you know something the majority of us like it. We actually could care less or we are a part of it. The never ending search for more and more and more and by the way if there is someone in the laying in the path, cross to the other side, we really don't want them to see us now, do we? Yes a million excuses why they are low life's, brought it upon themselves, etc, etc, etc, but never a look in the mirror.

Yes, I guess you are right. I just thought tonight I'd vent. A good friend died because well frankly he fell at age 38 on hard times. Oh, sure his fault, out of work due an iunjury his company didn't do much about. Pain killers that in my opinion those workman comp doctors are fast to give us average Americans when injured and that wrecked his life. Yes no money, no credit, no hope yes and certainly not "Credit Worthy" any longer. Yes, evicted, family gone somewhere else to live, no real job, injured with no insurance, yea, that low life, it serves him right. Hey he didn't have the strength to pull himself together, right? He could have gone for help, right? There are plenty of agencies that help people like him, right? Oh, he just didn't want it, yea, right? Oh, and by the way, do you happen to how much is his old home going for?

Yea, tell me I'm not right, yea, just go ahead and tell me. Sorry just venting. I venture to say there are a lot of us like that out there sick of the types that destroy people and find it honorable and good. Hey, someone has to do it and after all it is Capitalism, isn't it?

Robert T. Melaccio Sr. 2008 Copyright ©2008 Robert Melaccio



Robert Melaccio Sr. has worked in the computer industry for 40 plus years in a diversified business and managerial environments. He enjoys freelance writing, giving seminars for young adults and teen groups as well as being an accomplished award winning poet of published poetry. He has worked teaching and as a youth minister. He is married and has three children and three grandchildren.

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