‘Stop foreclosures & evictions!’

[dcsmart]

The Network to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions rallied outside City Hall here on Jan. 12 to call on Mayor Sheila Dixon and the City Council to make Baltimore a “foreclosure-and-eviction-free zone.”

The group is calling on the city government to call a moratorium on foreclosures; to support an effort to have the sheriff’s office extend its holiday moratorium on foreclosures and evictions for the winter months; to call on banks directly to halt foreclosure proceedings; and to demand the Public Service Commission and Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. halt utility shutoffs during the winter months.

Andre Powell, an AFSCME delegate to the Baltimore Metropolitan Central Labor Council, said, “We must revive Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s movement for Jobs or Income Now. As a union representative, I would like to express my solidarity with the community and lend our voice to demand a moratorium on foreclosures, evictions, layoffs and budget cuts.”
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FULL ARTICLE:
http://www.workers.org/2009/us/baltimore_0122/

Job cuts devastate small towns

The Chippewa Valley, once called “Wisconsin’s Silicon Valley,” has just been hit by the termination of more than 1,000 factory jobs at SGI, Hutchinson Technology and other computer parts manufacturers. Layoffs have also been announced at Leeson Electric Corp., which makes electric motors.
The damage and pain of this blow have yet to be fully felt by the people here.
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FULL ARTICLE:
http://www.workers.org/2009/us/small_towns_0122/

[lonestarnot]

1. Time management can be of great importance about now!

[.... callchet ....]

2. To save the USA and the world

we are going to have to start by abolishing all debt. There is historic precedence for this see " Jubilee "

"slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest"

[lonestarnot]

3. Yes!

[1monster]

4. K & R

:kick:

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. The real problem is that its hard to parse the ones that should go from the ones that sould not

Not all evictions/foreclosures/closings are wrong. A blanket position is dumb. How should we determine which should go forward and those that should be stopped?

[.... callchet ....]

6. Not everyone killed in a war is a war criminal.

Somethings you just have to do to save the country.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. No clue what you are trying to say here

[.... callchet ....]

8. You can't justify inaction because some may

benefit more than others. The overall benefit will be good for the USA.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

9. I agree action should be taken, but it needs to be intelligent not blanket

[.... callchet ....]

10. It just depends on your view point.

If you think conditions are bad, for repairable needing moderate programs and oversight, then you can afford the luxury of detailed managing.. But if you think things are spiraling out of control, then the solution has to be directed at the end game. Put policies in effect for recovering from a major disaster.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

11. It would also allow those who do not need it to take advantage of it, like tax loopholes

Most tax breaks were created with the best of intentions. However, they often get used by those it was not intended to support. That is why I think some parsing is required

[.... callchet ....]

12. That is true and that is how it will have to be.

There will have to be a certain amount of inequities sustained. This time the inequities will be in favor of the poor and suffering. I am sure there will be some rental properties and other situations owned by large corporations that will fit the qualifications for needing help. But if you believe in doom and gloom coming then you have to accept blanket actions. I have been writing about this current situation for years. Predicting all of it. It may just be an anomaly but so far I have been right. I believe we need drastic measures. Massive tax increase and a return to the 95% income tax bracket for the high test incomes. Like 1944 and 1945. There may even need to be a sur tax on savings to pay the bill. There will need to be many radical programs to put money back in the hands of the poor and start the economy again.

[Joe Chi Minh]

13. Surely, that is a very pragmatic priority, as well as common decency,.

in a situation for which few, if any bear responsibility. Without understanding its nature (unlike the culprits responsible), we have all lived in a "credit bubble", financial culture, created by the right as a better alternative from their purblind perspective, to paying employees a living wage.