GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The Gooferment enables bad debt collectors

Monday, June 6, 2016

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/292786/john-oliver-buys-forgives-15-million-medical-debt/

John Oliver buys, forgives $15 million in medical debt
In News by Jamie Peck / June 6, 2016

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In the type of detailed 20-minute segment the show is becoming known for, Oliver examined the debt-buying industry, a poorly regulated field wherein companies buy people’s debt for pennies on the dollar and harass them into paying it, often by illegal and abusive means. He also discussed “zombie debt,” i.e. money which debt collectors try to extract that people are no longer actually obligated to pay. The show even sent a correspondent to an industry conference with a hidden camera to watch collectors gloat about how consumers don’t know their rights. (Also illuminating: An Arkansas lawmaker joking with the House Insurance and Commerce Committee about how he has to protect the bankers or his banker wife won’t let him come home at night.)

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Saw this episode.

It was funny and shocking!

I demonstrates that Gooferment, its politicians, and bureaucrats are not interested in the welfare of “We, The Sheeple”!

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VETERANS: Remembering D-Day?

Monday, June 6, 2016

2016-Jun-06

https://www.army.mil/d-day/

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On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which, “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. The cost in lives on D-Day was high. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler’s crack troops.

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How many folks will remember this fateful day?

The fact is that it was probably necessary for the events at the time. 

One can not underestimate the courage and bravery that it took to hit those beaches.

When you hear that today’s students demand “safe spaces” from ideas that upset them, think of those men who created the “safe space” they enjoy.

Argh!

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