Frontline: Close To Home

Last night I watched the Frontline show "Close to Home". I decided to post this morning to see if anyone else watched the show and how they felt about the show. I myself liked the show and thought it was very interesting.

For anyone who did not know about "Close to Home" it was a show in which a Frontline producer spent time in an upscale salon in New York City. While there she asked the clients of a hairdresser, Deborah, how they were doing in the recession. For much of the hour the show details the lives of New Yorkers who visit the salon and how their lives have changed since the recession began. The last few minutes revolve around the salon owners sister who actually lives in Florida, but came to New York in order to help her sister Deborah. The Frontline cameras follow Deborah's back to Florida where it is revealed that the sister is struggling to keep her house. It is also revealed that in an effort to keep her home she has taken in renter who also have their own stories of how they were affected by the recession. I think all the renters had lost their own homes at least partly due to the recession.

The biggest thing about the show for me was the way banks were treating people. Especially the case of the last guy, in which the bank foreclosed on the guys home and then sold the home for $55,000. Since the bank sold the home for such a small amount they could have just adjusted the interest rate on the house and let the guy make his back payments. It was a similar case for Deborah's sister. The bank could have just adjusted the interest rate on the home in order to allow the woman to make her house payments. By the end of the taping Deborah's sister still had her home, but the chances that she was going to keep her home were small.

Thanks a pantload, so-called 'conservative' republicons.

Republicon Homelander FAIL Freakery has flushed America's economy -- and honor -- down the crapper for generations to come.

The last guy (was his name Mike?) was especially sad. I can't imagine losing your spouse and then 3 days later coming home to find yourself locked out and all your stuff moved out on the street.

The people in that show and all over the US are being treated that way because government allows it.

The construction worker in fl who's wife died and 5 days later he came home and they had thrown his belongings on the street was beyond heartbreaking. My husband is a construction worker, 56 years old, and unemployed for 6 months so far. There are NO jobs, not even minimum wage jobs, for someone that age.

The violence that has been done to people in this country as a result of wall street is beyond anything that can be repaired this time.
The politicians will just wait it out for the next decade or two until enough die and then sweep the whole sordid mess under the rug for good.

7000 people exhaust their unemployment benefits every day and our elite representatives in the senate drag their feet on an extention.

It's like the story Tommy Douglas told Canadians as he pushed for national healthcare and other social reforms. The mice keep electing cats thinking they will do what is best for mice and totally ignoring the fact that cats will always do what's best for cats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWKsR0gugww&feature=player_embedded#

http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/douglas-tommy.html

losing his spouse and then his house 3 days later had my wife and I in tears.

And the HR Exec given 10 minutes to clear out of his office, after yearsof working there . . .