Heartbreaking Video - I cried -

[claypool4prez]

Run time: 04:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgmsBP8h5bc   Posted on YouTube: March 26, 2010 By YouTube Member: CalForNC Views on YouTube: 23   Posted on DU: March 26, 2010 By DU Member: claypool4prez Views on DU: 1922

 
In the fifth installment of his "Voices of North Carolina" video series, Senate Candidate Cal Cunningham introduces us to Rusty Triebert, who lost his job and his home in the recent financial meltdown. ...



To find out more about Rusty's story and to read Cal Cunningham's full proposals for reforming the financial sector go to www.calfornc.com

[claypool4prez]

1. wow what a quote

"I'm rediscovering what it means to be an American, from the ground up."

[tabatha]

2. Excellent. He is doing it the right way.

[CLANG]

3. He was oblivious to other peoples plight's until it happened to him.

That's our biggest problem in this country. I'm sorry this had to happen to him for him to see the light.

[Raoul]

4. Agreed.

Sadly, you are right. And I'll go even further - if he hadn't been affected in the way he was he probably wouldn't have given a rat's arse about the rest of America.

He said he followed the rules and believed in the American dream. I never did either one. I made great money but downsized myself almost 15 years ago because I knew it was exactly what they say it was - a dream. And, I've never looked back.

[CLANG]

6. yup - there's a reason they call it the American "dream".

People don't really understand unless they happen to "wake up".

[defendandprotect]

18. Most people just want peace and some security in their lives . . . not a fortune . . .

[claypool4prez]

7. Well put.

I agree with what y'all said.


There are a lot of folks, in what used to be the Middle-Class, who are now realizing just how unstable this country's economy truly is.

I think that's the underlying message of this video: IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYBODY!. And that's why we need REAL financial reform, including the Consumer Protection Agency.

[JDPriestly]

14. What is the Obama administration doing to help homeless people?

[defendandprotect]

19. We barely hear anything about the homeless among us -- the impoverished . . . and near-homeless...

The Democrats are barely talking about the unemployed though they are working

to extend benefits vs the GOP holds --

We need to create a SUPERFUND to help the unemployed -- and it should be raised

by taxing elites/corporations who have obscenely benefited from the trade agreements

and knocking American workers out of jobs to replace them with slave labor harvested

in other countries!!

[daggahead]

5. We need to rethink how our economy works, and the priorities of corporations. n/t

[Capitalocracy]

8. Well, their priority is making money... and that's fine

That's why what they're allowed to do should be limited to their purpose, not to lobbying public policy or capturing government... and they need to be regulated not to do harm to people in their efforts to make money. Simple as that, don't know why we can't do it.

[daggahead]

9. Amen to that ...

And welcome to DU!

[defendandprotect]

20. Capitalism is organized crime . . . especially as it is being practiced these days!!

Unregulated capitalism is a threat to government and democracy -- and all humanity.

Even regulated capitalism is a threat -- it's based on exploitation of nature, natural

resources, animal-life -- and even other human beings according to various myths of

inferiority.

We are a nation founded in genocide and slavery -- and time we work out way out of it!!

[sabrina 1]

24. And that's what's wrong with them !

'Their priority is making money'.

Not all corporations have 'making money' as a 'priority. There are many CEOs who started their businesses understanding that without their employees, they would not have succeeded.

When owners of businesses make people a priority, customers and employees, they tend to do very well.

This barrenness of spirit that has infected this country is destroying it. Money isn't everything.

[defendandprotect]

21. We need to rethink capitalism . . . which is attacking all of us as wielded by 2% of elites . . .

[Plucketeer]

10. There's several cases like this in our own family of late

One cousin has taught for a Catholic school for 30 years. She now stands to lose her home. The school has offered her a job again - so long as she takes it on part-time terms. Good christian ethics in that, eh?

[ProgressOnTheMove]

11. Every Democratic senate seat counts especially when the opposition are running on a platform of...

squeal and repeal. Clearly he has a clear plan on ho to get it all done.

[madmax]

12. He has my vote.

Next week I'll send some cash. This week sent to Weiner.

[claypool4prez]

13. Awesome!

Why thank you MadMax, that rocks.


For folks who don't know much about Cal Cunningham. He's a former State Senator who joined the Army Reserve after 9/11, and served in Iraq. He's also the first candidate for U.S. Senate to come out for filibuster reform. Solid guy, great background, lifetime of public service.

[Stumbler]

15. "I've been oblivious to all that... until it happened to me."

Sadly, that's exactly what it's gonna take to open some people's eyes. And then they're gonna blame the Dems, the Liberals and the rest of us who fall into that mythical category of "Lobster-eating/ Cadillac-driving/ laughing-all-the-way-to-the-bank welfare queens" for the source of their anger, when it rightly deserves to be pointed at the banksters that created this mess.

So help me, if I see one more video of Hannity blaming this crisis on borrowers, while those "poor," "helpless" lenders were "forced" to give unfair mortgages to "those greedy poor people," I'll kill a kitten just to save God the effort.

(For the record, I'd never kill a kitten: I'm simply referring to the sound-bites that say "When you listen to right-wing radio, God kills a kitten." (No offense Malloy. Love the show! Just making a point!))

[claypool4prez]

16. Hahaha

Nice comment Stumbler.

Love the SeaLab pic by the way. Great show.

[Capitalocracy]

23. with extra points for the double parentheses

complex sentence structures... I love it

[defendandprotect]

17. Yes, sounds really dumb, but how often do you put on your TV and see homeless and

unemployed as day long stories -- or month long stories?

How often are Dems even mentioning Homeless --

Battle just to keep unemployment benefits extended with GOP blocking!!

PLEASE ... turn off the TVs -- put them in the closet --

[Capitalocracy]

22. Maybe ads like this will change that

We need to find a way for people to figure this out BEFORE it happens to them... especially when we have a Democratic Party that needs more than a filibuster-proof supermajority to actually do anything. That means we need about half the population to come to financial ruin AND figure out it's Wall Street's fault (not the mythical "big government") for the method of "I didn't realize until it happened to me" to work in creating change. I agree that he's coming in late, but I applaud him for speaking out.