The Riven Owler team was recently visiting Anytown, USA. There on a mission to help elderly residents by doing some interior painting, we entered a neighborhood that had obviously at one time been grand, with large homes built circa 1920. Everywhere though were signs saying "We Buy Homes." Rows of such homes were boarded up and dilapidated.
We have not given you the real name of the city we visited because we do not wish to denigrate a particular locale, but let's just say that the place was in serious decline. By the end of the week after getting to know and help our 93-year-old resident, we hoped and prayed she would be safe from the crime element we noticed.
Our African-American resident's husband is a 94-year-old veteran of two wars. They sacrificed for us, and then they sacrificed more so their children could each go to college. They are so proud of their children who all work in the medical field in four different far-flung states.
Why should people like this lose the value in their homes and neighborhoods? Where is the outcry from the American people? We are 751 billion underwater. Give us a candidate...Republican, Democrat, Independent...anyone who will put real value back into working and middle class homes.
We need a leader who will not let others define the conversation at our expense. We need a leader with true regard for the American people.
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