my mortgage for a month.  The walking commode pays off 20% of my house.  Longshore work is seasonal in the NW, and shipping is down over 50% worldwide.  I'm at the Dispatch Hall whenever there's a call out, but they've been few and far between since October.  I asked my mortgage company for a three month moratorium on payments due to the rec-(depr)-ession.  Just stick it on the end is all I asked for.  All the phone calls said "you qualify; fill out the forms and wait 34 days."  I filled out the forms, found all the necessary bank statements, mortgage receipts, pay stubs and faxed them from my local bank branch. On Day 39 I received a letter in the mail: request DENIED.  So I say to these titans of banking and finance lounging on their 350' yachts or flying to Cancun on their Bush-bailout bought corporate jets; you know, the ones that that got us here and now beg us for these multi-$billion bailouts:  Float some credit for the masses, or you'll be floating on your asses.

by gatekeeper50 on 02/04/2009 04:26:08 PM EST