EMERGENCY: SAVE STOGIE!

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OK, folks, no kidding around this time, it’s time to help a friend in urgent need:

Home foreclosures are continuing at a brisk pace, according to an article by McClatchy News. Many of the first foreclosures that began three years ago, when the housing bubble began to burst, were for subprime mortgages. Now, however, a fresh batch of foreclosures is occurring because people have lost their jobs and can’t pay them. I am now in that category. I didn’t pay my July mortgage payment and probably will miss August as well. I haven’t been answering the phone, which rings constantly from bill collectors.
Our savings kept us afloat for a year. When it was gone, I borrowed the equity out of my life insurance. That’s gone too. We were hoping to ride out this recession, to survive until it was over. However, it is the longest lasting and deepest recession I have ever seen. . . . .
It’s just a matter of weeks before I lose my home. . . . I am a college graduate and a CPA. Accountants were supposed to be immune from unemployment. Not any more. . . .

GO HIT STOGIE’S TIP JAR NOW! Every $5 or $10 helps, folks. This post will be sticky at the top of the page for a couple of days, and I’ll urge my blogger friends to join this campaign.

UPDATE: Thanks to Bob Belvedere at Camp of the Saints, Red at Caught Him With a Corndog, Pete at Da Tech Guy and Fisherville Mike for joining Operation Save Stogie.

Coincidentally or not, the news today highlights how Obamanomics has failed to address the kind of situation Stogie is facing. Here’s a Huffington Post headline:

Dwindling Retirement Savings ‘Undiscussed Explosive Bomb’ Of Recession
. . . Aside from stagnant wages, soaring unemployment and plummeting home values, the major tragedy of this recession is the havoc it has wreaked on the retirement incomes of millions of Americans who have planned and saved their entire lives, only to watch that money drain out of their accounts much sooner than they anticipated.
Retirement statistics are grim. The percentage of American workers who said they have less than $10,000 in savings grew to 43 percent in 2010, according to a recent survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. . . .

And even liberals like Chris Hayes of the Nation are now denouncing the “HAMP” mortgage-adjustment program as “the single biggest failure of the Obama Administration” — which is some pretty stiff competition!

Stogie says thanks to those who’ve hit his tip jar during this emergency, and if you haven’t contributed yet, please do so today.

UPDATE: Georgia homegirl Obi’s Sister joins the campaign.

129 comments

  3. Dammit, Pat, if you knew what a great guy Stogie is, you wouldn’t say useless crap like that. I was tempted to delete your comment, but I’ll leave it up, just to chastise your conscience when you see the testimonials to Stogie’s valiant character.

  4. Dammit, Pat, if you knew what a great guy Stogie is, you wouldn’t say useless crap like that. I was tempted to delete your comment, but I’ll leave it up, just to chastise your conscience when you see the testimonials to Stogie’s valiant character.

  7. I’m sure he is a great guy. But nobody bailed my ass out when I was over 18 grand in the whole back in 2004. I filed for chapter 7 and started over.

    I’m just sayin’…

  9. I’m sure he is a great guy. But nobody bailed my ass out when I was over 18 grand in the whole back in 2004. I filed for chapter 7 and started over.

    I’m just sayin’…

  11. Klassy Pat. You’ve inspired me to hit Stogie’s tip jar. I’d even help you if you needed it.

    Somehow, I highly doubt that.

    I’m just making a point and because ya’ll like the guy, your pissed about it.

    Oh well, reality is reality.

  12. Klassy Pat. You’ve inspired me to hit Stogie’s tip jar. I’d even help you if you needed it.

    Somehow, I highly doubt that.

    I’m just making a point and because ya’ll like the guy, your pissed about it.

    Oh well, reality is reality.

  16. This situation and the economy is horrible. I hope I don’t end up like your friend, Stogie. I’ve been unemployed a while myself, and it’s hard to find accounting work. I”m barely hanging on, and I hope I can hang on to my house.
    I can’t contribute cash at this time, but I”ll contribute lots
    of prayers, your friend is very Lucky to have you guys.

  17. This situation and the economy is horrible. I hope I don’t end up like your friend, Stogie. I’ve been unemployed a while myself, and it’s hard to find accounting work. I”m barely hanging on, and I hope I can hang on to my house.
    I can’t contribute cash at this time, but I”ll contribute lots
    of prayers, your friend is very Lucky to have you guys.

  20. I’m sure he is a great guy. But nobody bailed my ass out when I was over 18 grand in the whole back in 2004.

    Nobody liked you enough to do so, then?

  21. I’m sure he is a great guy. But nobody bailed my ass out when I was over 18 grand in the whole back in 2004.

    Nobody liked you enough to do so, then?

  32. Why are you all getting on Pat?
    He’s just living up to Conservative values.You know, self reliance and all that jazz…Kudos to Pat for keeping it real.
    Kansas, so sad…
    You’re so obsessed with playing the race card. I know buddy, white folks have it so bad in this country….

  33. Why are you all getting on Pat?
    He’s just living up to Conservative values.You know, self reliance and all that jazz…Kudos to Pat for keeping it real.
    Kansas, so sad…
    You’re so obsessed with playing the race card. I know buddy, white folks have it so bad in this country….

  34. y4e, you can go piss up a rope. You have absolutely NO understanding of conservative values. Which explains why you constantly tilt at straw windmills.

    But I suspect that this is your personal philosophy. Screw them, I got mine. Or is it that your and Pat’s politics have poisoned your souls so that you would rather see someone who disagrees politically die in a fire? And then call it “justice”?

  35. y4e, you can go piss up a rope. You have absolutely NO understanding of conservative values. Which explains why you constantly tilt at straw windmills.

    But I suspect that this is your personal philosophy. Screw them, I got mine. Or is it that your and Pat’s politics have poisoned your souls so that you would rather see someone who disagrees politically die in a fire? And then call it “justice”?

  36. Conservative values- cut the middlemen out of charity i.e. the government. Give directly to the those in need.

    Why do we need to pay an administrator $70,000 to figure out how to inefficiently allocate $10,000,000?

    It’s a little off subject but check out kickstarter.org. It’s a weird fund-raising site.

  37. Conservative values- cut the middlemen out of charity i.e. the government. Give directly to the those in need.

    Why do we need to pay an administrator $70,000 to figure out how to inefficiently allocate $10,000,000?

    It’s a little off subject but check out kickstarter.org. It’s a weird fund-raising site.

  43. To all who would rather be politically right and/or jaded rather than throw a fiver at Stogie…it is when we lend service to others that we elevate ourselves and each other for a higher good. In other words, it is better to give than receive. In other words, “Do unto others’. In other words, strict adherence to a principle doesn’t make one right. It makes one rigid.

  44. To all who would rather be politically right and/or jaded rather than throw a fiver at Stogie…it is when we lend service to others that we elevate ourselves and each other for a higher good. In other words, it is better to give than receive. In other words, “Do unto others’. In other words, strict adherence to a principle doesn’t make one right. It makes one rigid.

  49. Oh Weenie, you know nothing and you prove it everytime you open your mouth.
    No, Weenie, it ain’t my personal philosophy.I was just pointing out the fact that Pat was adhering to Conservative principles.
    Go figure that you would get all wee-wee’d up over it.
    Nice try, though.

  50. Oh Weenie, you know nothing and you prove it everytime you open your mouth.
    No, Weenie, it ain’t my personal philosophy.I was just pointing out the fact that Pat was adhering to Conservative principles.
    Go figure that you would get all wee-wee’d up over it.
    Nice try, though.

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