Tell Congress to Vote NO on the "Debt Slavery" Bankruptcy Bill in the Hous

[notadmblnd]

Any day now, your Representative in Congress will vote on a hugely important Bankruptcy Bill (H.R. 685) that could literally change your life.

The bill was written by the credit card industry, which made $30 billion in profits in 2004 - and is blinded by its greed.

It will change current law and prevent you from declaring bankruptcy under Chapter 7, which pays off your debts by liquidating your assets. Instead, it would force you into Chapter 13 with a rigid 5-year repayment plan. You would no longer be able to protect your car and home, and you would have to pay greater legal fees.

Simply put, you would become a debt slave to the credit card companies.

http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/31

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Otherwise known as usury.... the Xtian base that rove and shrub

have so successfully amassed.. may be a little upset with this... one can only hope.. then again, if everybody becomes a corporation, there won't be any problems.

I wonder if they are going to pass legislation on interest rates... say, limiting them to oh perhaps 8 or 9 percent.... nah, didn't think so.

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2005/03/on_usury_2_of_3.html
Dr. Yunus' emphasis on empowerment, I think, gets at the essential meaning of usury.

Lending can empower or it can exploit. The former is a good, the latter is evil -- the sin of usury. Lending at interest enables lenders to continue their business of empowering. It was in recognition of this that Christians -- right around the same time as the modern market economy was developing -- began reconsidering the meaning of the prohibition against usury.

Our understanding of the principle changed, but the principle remains. Exploiting debtors is the sin of usury whether it is done by Dante's Ubriachi or by MBNA and its puppets in Congress.

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[notadmblnd]

2. I've also heard that CC companies have or are prepared to raise the %

from 2% to 4% doubling most peoples minimum payments. I know I read it here a few days ago. There were 3 major companies taking this action. This would mean that if you have a 50.00 minimum payment it would turn into a 100.00 minimum payment. If you have more than one card, It could hurt.

[AzDar]

5. Kick!! eom

[notadmblnd]

3. a shameless kick for the morning crowd

:kick:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Not to change the subject, but while we are on the subject of

slavery.... looky here what has been going on in brother jeb's state.... how simply surprising.... not. Maybe this deserves a new thread in GD... really click on the link... unbelievable...


http://www.palmbeachpost.com/hp/content/moderndayslavery/
Slavery is not just the shameful stuff
of history books - not in Florida
The Palm Beach Post presents a three-part examination of slavery,
its costs and its effects - on the migrant workers, and on you

http://www.migrationint.com.au/ruralnews/palau/jan_2003-06rmn.asp
Three men, brothers Juan and Ramiro Ramos, and a cousin, Jose Ramos, were sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison for enslaving 700 unauthorized workers in Florida's citrus groves near Lake Placid in Okeechobee County from January 2000 to June 2001; they also forfeited $3 million from their immigrant smuggling operation. The Ramos' R & A Harvesting, Inc charged workers a $1,000 smuggling fee, and deducted it from the workers' wages.