We bought our home in Whittier, CA in 2002. The financial hardships for our family of five first began in 2009. The company my husband worked for was downsizing, and he was laid off. He was able to find a new job in 2010, but in a sub-driver position averaging less than 30 hours per month. Soon after that I lost my job as well, and was unable to find a new one that paid the same amount as my previous position. We tried hard to make ends meet for as long as possible. In 2011, when we could no longer make the mortgage payments for our home in California, my husband and I both cashed out our 401K retirement plans in order to stay current. In November of that year, my husband was offered a new position making significantly less money per hour. We were left with no other options- he needed a full time position, so he took the job. By 2012, when it finally became clear that we were underemployed, we contacted Bank of America to try and obtain a loan modification. We've been getting the runaround from the bank ever since. We have sent in four different loan modification packages, hopeful for a solution each time, only to be let down or asked to start the process all over again. Each time we felt like we were getting somewhere, we were assigned a new representative by Bank of America, putting us right back where we started. Our home means stability for our three children. Our oldest daughter is now working and contributing towards the mortgage. With three incomes in our household we are able to make our payments, but we need Bank of America to approve an affordable loan modification. We work hard and are asking Bank of America to work with us to keep our family together in the only home our three kids have ever known.

Romney's Bain DE law firm (MNAT) handled the merger of Romney's The Learning Co with Mattel in 1999. Meanwhile, MNAT's other client (Goldman Sachs) was taking eToys public in 1999 (where the stock soared to $85; but eToys received less than $20). To make sure that various State, Federal & SEC frauds were NOT investigate/prosecuted. MNAT lied to become eToys bankruptcy attorney and Paul Traub (who worked with Romney/ Michael Glazer at Stage Stores) lied to become eToys Creditors attorney. In 2005, MNAT & Traub confessed lying under oath to a chief federal justice and placing Barry Gold (who was also with Romney/Glazer at Stage Stores) - in as CEO of eToys. Then eToys was sold (almost for Free) to Bain/ Kay Bee (CEO Glazer). When Glazer paid himself $18 million and Bain $83 million before filing bankruptcy of Kay Bee - MNAT represents Bain and Traub asked to be the prosecutor. At the same time, MNAT & Barry Gold nominated Paul Traub's firm to prosecute Goldman Sachs in the N.Y. Supreme Ct. case 601805/2002. They can get away with all of this because - on August 2, 2001 - an MNAT law firm partner (Colm Connolly) became the Delaware United States Attorney who then covered up the crimes.

yea was electrocuted on the job was force to use fmla and own insurance head boss told me if I use worker comp would be fired coming back on light duty for any reason I did what they asked lost job lost insurance use own money for deductables now lost wife and loseing house

Chase cost me almost $10,000 by their gaming of the HAMP program.

The registered nurses of the NNOC (National Nurses Organizing Committee) have purposed a 1% tax on all Wallstreet transactions to generate revenue for needed programs that will benefit all Americans. Since Wallstreet greed caused the near- collapse of the global economy and since they have now been making out like bandits-it is way past time to hold them accountable for giving back a small, small portion of the obscene profits they make (often) to the detriment of Main Street.

Introduced in 1949 by the FCC, The Fairness Doctrine required holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a way that was honest, equitable and balanced. In 1969 it was upheld by an 8-0 vote by the Supreme Court. Since it was repealed under President Reagan in 1985, we have had a proliferation of partisan talk radio, Fox News and the most partisan government of my lifetime. Reinstating the act could be key to bringing sanity back to our politics.

The gridlock in both the House and Senate seems to be controlled by Deep Pockets, not the majority opinion of the representative's constituency. I don't want to wait until November for a change...besides, I approve of how my representatives are voting. I want the gridlock to stop now and the representatives to follow the will of the people who have elected them in good faith.

More work and less pay? No way. But Reps. Eric Cantor and John Boehner and other corporate bought-and-paid-for politicians want to change that. Cantor has prioritized legislation—H.R. 1406—that would let corporate CEOs get out of their legal obligation to pay cash overtime to workers and replace it with the "promise" of time off in the future. If this bill passes, it would change decades of labor law that have protected the 40-hour workweek and fair pay for workers. Workers who work overtime would be paid nothing and be given the “promise” of time off in the future—whenever the boss gives permission to take it, of course. A lot of workers depend on the extra money they get from “time-and-a-half” overtime pay just to make ends meet. This proposal would take that extra money away, and workers who take “time off” would never see a bump in their paycheck. This bill also would undermine the 40-hour workweek by making it cheaper for CEOs to demand long hours from employees. Boehner, Cantor and other right-wing legislators want you to think this is about “flexibility” for workers. But the only people who’d get flexibility from this legislation would be bosses, not employees. Corporations already have the “flexibility” to give time off whenever they want. What they would gain through this bill is the “flexibility” to pay nothing for overtime work, and then tell workers to “take off” when business is slow. Don’t let Boehner, Cantor and our corporate politicians erode fair pay and the 40-hour workweek. Sign the petition to Congress NOW.

This bill would create an entirely new, transparent and ungameable set of capital rules for the nation's banks. It requires banks to hold a significant amount of capital in a rainy day fund. In addition: 1) bankers won't be able to manipulate rating agencies; 2) off-balance sheet assets, derivatives and liabilities must be included in stating a bank's assets; 3) Megabanks will be forced to increase their capital or bring down their size. Help Brown & Vitter wage war on the financial machine (lobbyists) to move the bill forward.

“The inside-the-beltway world of Washington, DC rarely deals with truly foundational economic issues. When they do, it is only because they are being forced to by crisis or a political movement forcing something onto center stage. Over the past few decades, we have watched the steady destruction of the American middle class by the massive expansion of the low wage worker economy – it’s time that we banded together to fight back. The first step in that fight legislatively is the introduction of Sherrod Brown and David Vitter’s bill taking on the Too Big To Fail banks. Brown and Vitter’s Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness (TBTF) Act puts serious pressure on “Too Big to Fail” banks in a variety of ways, and those banks are doing some serious squealing as a result. The bill would force the TBTF banks to stop playing some of their most egregious accounting games and make the TBTFers keep almost twice the percentage of capital reserves.”

As a consumer I would rather pay more at Walmart than support subhuman working conditions and wages in other countries for cheaper products. I want people worldwide to have safe working conditions, and wages that pay the bills each month. I won't go back into Walmart until workers get wages at 75% cost of living, and a minimum 36 hour work week in both the US and abroad. I also won't go into the store, until worker safety is assured abroad as it is in the US.

The oil and gas billionaires the Koch brothers are trying to purchase the Los Angeles Times! It’s part of a larger bid to buy the Tribune Company’s media assets, which includes TV stations and major newspapers across the country in addition to the Times. Charles and David Koch laid out a three-pronged, 10-year strategy to buy America. The first two pieces of the strategy are educating grass-roots activists and influencing politics. To achieve their goal they have devoted their fortunes to bankrolling climate change denial, union busting, and the Tea Party. Over time the brothers have assembled a complex political infrastructure that supports their radical conservative agenda. The third piece of their strategy is media. Now, they want to expand their radical right-wing propaganda to communities across the country by “Fox-news-ifying” local papers like the Times. It’s a frightening scenario when a free press is actually a bought and paid-for press. We can’t allow respected journalistic institutions to become mouthpieces for the Koch’s self serving political agenda.