'Our family is going through hard times, and we’re trying to cut expenses, so I asked my bank about mortgage loan modification. “We’re here to help you, Mr. Diaz,” said the loan officer. “How far behind are you in your mortgage payments? You don’t qualify unless you’re pretty destitute.”
“We’re not behind yet,” I said, “but I lost my job. In order to keep up the payments, we had to shut down the heating and air conditioning and eat peanut butter sandwiches. My son is wearing my daughter’s hand-me-downs, which she got at the thrift store. My wife sold all her jewelry, and is getting additional income from what she calls ‘the kindness of strangers.’”
“That’s terrible, Mr. Diaz, but I can’t help unless your payments are at least two months behind. Stop paying and come back in two months.”'
'One of the greatest challenges to becoming Totally Free is to be able to think independently from everyone else. You know instinctively that no one cares about you, as much as you care about yourself. Yet we constantly listen to others about what is best for us, instead of thinking about what is best for us.
That is because we live in a world where everyone tells you what to think, but no one tells you how to think. We are blasted everyday with advertising, financial sales pitches, political media propaganda, religious dictates and more and more social pressure to conform. Most of our lives we don’t make any real decisions we kind of just fall into a routine.
You see when you do not really think, you leave your mind open to those who do think. The real and most often unnoticed danger is a class of predators manipulating societies for their own selfish benefits. If you go along to get along and not think outside of the box, you risk being caught in the undertow of a doomed society or worse.'
Monday, 03 September 2012 08:39
'George Osborne is drawing up plans to announce up to £10bn of extra cuts in welfare spending next year, according to a leaked account of a briefing to senior civil servants.
The tentative decision of the chancellor to hold his pre-election spending review next year will pave the way for intense wrangling in the coalition.
Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, has indicated that the Liberal Democrats might be prepared to block some of the welfare cuts unless wealthier people are asked to make an extra contribution to reducing the fiscal deficit.'
Monday, 03 September 2012 08:39
'George Osborne is drawing up plans to announce up to £10bn of extra cuts in welfare spending next year, according to a leaked account of a briefing to senior civil servants.
The tentative decision of the chancellor to hold his pre-election spending review next year will pave the way for intense wrangling in the coalition.
Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, has indicated that the Liberal Democrats might be prepared to block some of the welfare cuts unless wealthier people are asked to make an extra contribution to reducing the fiscal deficit.'
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