Jocelyne Voltaire, a resident of Queens Village, New York, saw her home go up for auction after a mortgage company foreclosed. She had made a fifty percent down payment twenty years ago, but recently saw her mortgage payments skyrocket under a predatory loan scam. Her mortgage is controlled by the company Litton Mortgage, an affiliate of the Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs. Voltaire had fallen behind on her payments in part because she no longer had the support of her son, a former Marine who served in the Iraq war. She was told her of son’s death just weeks after being informed of the foreclosure.
READ HER INTERVIEW ON DEMOCRACY NOW!
If you ever feel there is not reason enough to protest war and corporate greed, remember her story.
If you ever feel that we need to "fight them there so we don't fight them here," ask yourself who are we really fighting?
I'm agnostic, but in certain cases I'll make exceptions: God have mercy on Jocelyn, and God Damn these bastards who destroy lives for their own well-being.
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