19,618 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website
Total REO Asking Price: $3,308,329,521
(As of October 17, 2008)
Source: CountryWide Foreclosures
"All too often we bargain away our souls, one piece at a time, rebelling from even small and reasonable requests to goodness— and for so little in return. And we hold on to that poisonous bargain out of stiff-necked, stubborn pride and a willful blindness to admit and repent our errors, until we fall into the abyss, bringing our family and friends with us. I fear that we are once again fallen into a general apostasy from those things that make and keep us fully human." Jesse, 30 June 2017
19,618 Homes Offered For Sale on Countrywide Financial's Website
Total REO Asking Price: $3,308,329,521
(As of October 17, 2008)
Source: CountryWide Foreclosures
The Banks must be restrained, and the financial system reformed, with balance restored to the economy, before there can be any sustainable recovery.
"In the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Thereafter, any attack even on the least of men is an attack on Christ, who took on the form of man, and in his own Person restored the image of God in all. Through our relationship with the Incarnation, we recover our true humanity, and at the same time are delivered from that perverse individualism which is the consequence of sin, and recover our solidarity with all mankind." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Sometimes God must first break a heart to enter it. And what remains afterwards, when the crisis is passed, offers us the way to become fully human. And we are called to stand and witness to the fully human life, in grace that is given not cheaply by ourselves, but by our resolve to follow Him in our calling. Where there is sickness bring healing, where there is despair bring hope. A candle in the darkness allows others to find and ignite their own— and then there is light." Jesse 2016
"A credibility trap is when the managerial functions of a society have been sufficiently compromised by corruption so that the leadership and the professional class cannot reform, or even honestly admit and address, the problems of the corrupted system without implicating a broad swath of a powerful elite, including themselves.