Who has been with DU for more than 10 years?

[underahedgerow]

242. Yeah I started in very early 2001 too, and re-invented myself a few years ago as well. Heck

I don't even remember my original name. I got here from Buzzflash. I was writing up a storm there with loads of research about the Florida debacle and my stuff was being re-posted here, so I was one of the originals. I didn't eat or sleep for months after that mess began, I went so deep into the bush history and the Florida mess, that it literally changed my life and everything I thought I knew.

And it all began with an article about a book called 'Votescam, the Stealing Of America'. I had read it in August 2000, when I wanted to find out about the candidates running for President, and began reading about the Bush family. I began writing about it in the few forums I could find, including Buzzflash, and all the signs in Florida pointing to the possibility of it happening again with bush.

No one believed me. Gloating was not an option, I was absolutely devastated.

In 2005 I was packing up all my stuff and doing some minor works around my house. There was a nice guy installing some stuff and making repairs as I was readying it for sale as I had decided to leave the USA after bush fucked us all a 2nd time in 2004.

He said to me 'What do you know that I don't?'

I said, 'this bush economic bubble is going to burst, huge and big time, and it's going to have a global impact. The shitstorm is going to start right here in the real estate market'.

This was after I had bought several properties using those ridiculously easy loan terms, at rock bottom prices, selling them just at the 2 year mark for over 100% profits. The last place I bought at 220K, sold it 2.5 years later for 525K, and it's now valued at 300K. It's been in foreclosure twice. Everyone got paid on my end, btw, I may have committed a bit of fraud in lying about my original assets, but every penny was paid on time and with its interest.

Man, I did NOT know it was going to be anywhere near as big and epic as it has become. SO glad I got out when I did.

And I'm still here on DU. It's just habit now. I don't have a lot to say.