by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
In 2002 I had not yet met Mario – and
he had not run into the enormous problem created intentionally by the
mortgage industry to expedite foreclosures, using the housing market
to create derivatives which could then be monetized, becoming an
investment. Mario, whose training is in dress design of all kinds,
solved his own problem and has helped thousands of other people keep
their homes. He is that kind of guy, warm, compassionate, and
determined.
Attorneys pay him to update them on
foreclosures and how new case law is changing the outcome for many.
Mario became obsessive on the subject and devoured law books when he
realized how people were being harmed. Along with telling me about
his work for people facing foreclosure Marion also mentioned to me in
an off-handed way, he makes hats.
While I know any number of people who
are struggling financially I only knew one other person with a
passion for hats. Naturally, I introduced them. Tonight we chatted
for nearly an hour tonight via conference call. Mario and Maggie got
along like gang-busters.
Maggie once owned a hat shop and loved
being a milliner. She is also in foreclosure herself. So, it was a
very fertile conversation, so to speak. They are now planning a
website to sell hats and help people facing foreclosure. Mario has
shown many people how to handle their own cases. Good things.
Planning out deceptive behavior which
takes people's homes should be a crime. Deceptive behavior is a
problem in other instances as well.
I had just gotten around to reading
“Rove Exposed,” by James
Moore and Wayne Slater, published in 2006. But the story about Rove
that arrested my interest was the sneak way he orchestrated the sale
of invading Iraq. When it happened it was easy to forget the
details, but in the book, there they were, with dates and who said
what, documented and easy to understand.
But
Slater and Moore left out the best part of the story. After the
sales job done to persuade Americans Saddam had weapons of mass
destruction in November, 2002 he contacted the Bush White House and
offered to leave Iraq – if they just paid him. For me, the time
line in “Rove Exposed”
explained why Rove was so anxious to make sure Saddam did not go
anywhere. And Saddam could never speak out.
Imagine that.
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