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Cancer Survivor Hopes To Avoid Foreclosure
Cancer Survivor Hopes To Avoid Foreclosure
By Teresa Garcia | KGO-TV San Francisco CA
A cancer survivor's family is still in their Oakland home after winning a battle so many Americans are now facing. They were going to be foreclosed upon and evicted today. Read more.
OAKLAND, CA - 31JULY09 - Home Defender activists sit in on the steps of the home of Tosha Alberty, her husband, four children and two grandchildren, who were evicted after First Franklin Mortgage Services, owned by Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, foreclosed on the home. Community activists in the Home Defenders campaign of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) sat in on the house steps behind the padlocked gate in an act of civil disobedience, and were arrested for trespassing by the Oakland Police.
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With the Alberty family in such dire circumstances, one could wonder how much worse it would be for them if the current proposals pass: "The deal also slightly reduced the cost of premiums for the uninsured, from 12 percent of a household's annual income to 11 percent." Make $21,000? Does that mean your new (forced) bill, a bill you did not have before, will be at least $2,300 per year? A person making $21,000 does not qualify for Medicaid, and would be lucky in most areas of this country to be able to even afford an apartment. How much of an impact would he or she feel. A new $200-a-month bill might just impact that person - right into the streets. Consider the soon-to-arrive 11% of Annual Income - TAX - a Tax Burden you did not have before - with this: "I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes." With these types of "solutions," one could swear to God that we are the middle of the last administration (and former majority).
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