Cicero: "Freedom is participation in power."

GM, for whom the loan originator GMAC is a subsidiary, received two different government "bailouts" together totaling well over $50 Billion dollars in the last 18 months. GM, as part of this "restructuring" rip-off ordered the layoffs of thousands of more GM employees, deeply scaled back U.S. production (severely damaging U.S. auto parts manufacturers in the bargain) and severed relationships with hundreds of GM-associated dealerships (many operated for over 50 years) leading directly to their closure. The dealership closures affected small and medium-sized town economies across the country.

Meanwhile, in the Asia Times, GM announced new factories, new jobs, new model construction orders and parts manufacturing partnerships in CHINA with CHINESE workers working in CHINESE plants and CHINESE business partners. GM's U.S. manufacturing overhead costs thus substantially lowered by a sick, sorry, anti-patriotic combination of undeserved federal tax-payer money handouts and the jettisoning of more American workers, parts manufacturers and dealerships, GM is expecting to profit big time by importing cars from China back into the U.S. and ramping up sales of Chinese-made GM cars within China.

The reason our Dimocrats and Refreeperkins are solidly behind this elaborate GM betrayal of America is that it will ultimately boost the value of GM stock FOR THE INVESTOR CLASS as part of our "JOBLESS RECOVERY" FOR THE RICH--the only Amurkans who really matter to either political Party or our ruling oligarchs anymore. The Republicans are compounding the hypocrisy of the situation as usual by bashing Obama for "nationalizing" GM--when he really helped further globalize it--exactly as the Republicans would have done had they been in power when GM demanded the bailouts.

The fact that GM's loan subsidiary GMAC is neck deep in the foreclosure of American homes just adds that final ugly detail to the whole degenerate sordid picture of precisely what is morally, ethically and spiritually wrong with contemporary "Amurka," its misplaced national priorities and its perpetually deceived masses.

Oh, and one DUI shouldn't cost ANY American his or her home. By that leap of illogic
the much worse crimes of violence routinely perpetrated by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, the authors of the torture memos, the individuals who tortured over 100 "detainees" to death in Afghanistan and elsewhere, and major pro athletes in the U.S. should've rendered them all homeless years ago. People who believe a single DUI offense warrants homelessness have been made imbeciles by bad propaganda and/or bad religion. They lack any sense of proportion with respect to the law and are warped to boot. Amurka's now thoroughly twisted regressive anti-kulture is cranking these cranks out by the tens of millions. Too bad we can't build any better high ticket items besides right-wing morons and weapons.

I am so glad team Bush and Obama used OUR taxpayer money to bail out GM AND GMAC (same company) and now I am an investor and free bank for one-in-the-same companies. It feels soo good to help out the rich....I never knew how exciting life could be living out of a 13 ft. camper having to leave my home to find a toilet and a shower each day and wash dishes on the street like the Chinese used to do prior to their capitalist venture with the United States in the late 90's.

I am so busy with figuring out how to get my daily needs met I don't have time to find a paid job...but since there are fewer jobs than there are unemployed workers what's the freakin point of looking? No....I will just keep on living like a third-world person and ponder how many more Americans have to join me in living like an animal before they are willing to join me in caravaning en-mass to DC to camp out in the offices of our corrupt govt. officials offices.

I'm still waiting.....

Portland OR

GMAC (the money/financing arm of General Motors), the same ones who screamed like a sacrificial virgin that they were 'too big to fail' and had to be saved at public expense are now employing the jackboot thugs to take what was never theirs to begin with.

Typical.

And to those posters who are blaming the victim, who has admitted to being an alcoholic (hence the DUI), did you ever think there just might, *might* be a reason WHY she turned to the bottle for solace?

Think on that, when it's your turn to watch the thugs throw your family out into the street this coming winter...

Walk in peace.

So here's how the game goes for the average middle class or poor person in the United States. You're born into debt, even if the family has some wealth. To exist on the land means you must pay a high-priced home mortgage or pay rent. Consequently, every baby born is born in hock to the banks or some real estate concern, though you don't really know that yet.

To "own" your property, you have to pay off this indebtedness for the majority of your working adult life. You have to secure decent-paying work for years on end, which is a very iffy proposition. Even if you are able to pull this off, you may not own the house or condo by the time you die, or you'll be evicted.

You pay police salaries. The police, in this case, protect the property rights of the banks. You have no rights. Remember, unless you pay those who own the land, you're a criminal. Don't think of sleeping in a public park - the police are there to roust you too. Of course you paid tax monies that fund the park too.

You pay tax monies that allow real estate concerns to use the public roads and water systems to sell their overpriced houses that you have scrimp and save to afford, if that.

Your tax dollars are handed over to the banks that loaned the money used to pay the mortgages. These are the same banks that helped inflate the housing bubble in the first place. These corporations committed major fraud but they got bailed out by you on your dime. Don't even ask because there is no bailout for you.

So you pay into a system in which you're essentially a wage slave or an indentured servant - for life. Nothing has really changed since the founding fathers, a bunch of wealthy country bumpkin landholders, conspired to establish a government for us all, on their terms, on someone else's lands. I guess you could say the "frontier" is gone - that's changed. It was Native American land that was stolen.

Your tax dollars return very little to you. No housing. No healthcare. Although, in other developed countries, the state does provide those things using tax dollars - and those are comparable capitalist states too. But no, not here in the United States. Here you're "free" - free to starve or be thrown into prison should you trip up.

In America, you do get to fund pointless illegal wars. You do pay for the forces that would suppress an uprising of like-minded people who might reject this system as inherently unfair. You pay for things like Northcom, or even your friendly local police force. It's just public service.

You're told that you succeed or fail by you're own hard work. Meanwhile, 40 percent of the rich simply get rich by inheriting their wealth. The United States has the greatest wealth disparity between the haves and have-nots of any country on the globe, yet you're supposed to think that we live in a classless egalitarian society.

You have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - in the abstract. But no one said anything about economic security, which is a precondition for life under capitalism.

On top of it all, you've got the law that supports property rights over every other right. You're told that you're free, but you haven't really read the fine print if you believe that.

"Property is theft!" So said the famous 19th century French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and they are words of wisdom today. Property represents the chain of infamy that makes us all into slaves, except for those who have gamed the system. Please think about it, especially those in this thread who get all huffy about a woman getting evicted. What heartless barbarism of thought is cultivated here.

http://tiny.cc/ProudhonWhatIsProperty

-TIA

WHY is this woman in foreclosure? (Nowhere does the story answer this question.) If the bank did something wrong, then she is in the right. If she is the victim of circumstances, ie she lost a job, got sick, etc, then the bank ought to work with her.

On the other hand, if she refinanced ten times to buy new SUVs, then she can freeze to death on a park bench this winter, for all I care. If she bought with an Adjustable Rate mortgage in 2006, at the top of the market, and is now upside down, then my sympathy is very limited.

Police officers are doing nothing wrong here. I hope no one is suggesting they are.

This is due process, its the way the law works. If you can't pay for something you borrowed money to buy, you cannot keep it. Its what you agreed to for the privilage.

Providing a check for $5000 is certainly generous for someone that has absolutely no right to the property.

What does Keith Ellison, the pro-Israeli first Muslim in Congress Representitive to Rosemary Williams have to say about this? Same thing he said as member of the House Judiciary SubCommittee on the Constitution when presented the House Bill to Impeach Cheney and Bush - "SPEAKER PELOSI HAS TAKEN THE ISSUE OF OFF THE TABLE".

Call Rosemary Williams' Representative to Congress and tell him to put this EVICTION back on the table:
Keith Ellison, D-MN5 - 612-522-1212

We have become a nation of people that think they are entitled to keep something for which they have not paid. She has been living in that house for MONTHS for free and she is given a $5000.00 cash award to move??? How insulting to the responsible HOMEOWNERS who budget and meet their obligations every month.

In the past, neighbors with shotguns would show up at the auctions - and make the winning bid of one dollar.

"Police officers plan to remain at the property at least overnight to prevent trespassing."

Is GMAC paying real estate taxes on this property to cover the cost for police protection or are the taxpayers dipping in to their pockets again for the benefit of corporate welfare projects?

If I were a taxpaying citizen of Minneapolis, I would want to know!

The state and its monopoly on violence and coercion exclusively serves the interests of the ruling class. The police are part of the guardian class who undermine their own class interests by serving the interests of the ruling elite. This is how capitalist elites can thrive and enjoy protection from the masses.

Have GMAC produce the mortgage certificate.

The ORIGINAL mortgage certificate with her signature on it obligating her to pay in the first place.

Bet they sold it!

I forgot, isn't GMAC a subsidiary of General Motors? Send her some bailout money.

I imagine the morale of the workers at GMAC is really high now that they have accomplished evicting someone.

We have bad things happening to good people by people who probably want to be good. What to do?

Obama, we beseech you to hear our cries of distress.

And when it is police officers whose houses are foreclosed on, what will they do then? That's coming soon.

Winter is also coming soon. Will banks be putting old poor people out onto the street as winter approaches?

I predict we will see more than one bank burn within the next year.