Archive for December, 2009

We have always had hucksters and scammers. They have been a part of history since it was first carved into clay tablets. They were a notable minority in every society. It appears that we have flipped the script on that ratio, now it seems the majority of people have cashed in their character for some chips at the easy-money Casino.

I have been meeting far too many selfish people lately. Not personally, mind you, rather they are things that have happened to clients or consultations I have had lately with people I did not choose to represent.

Most of this kind of whom I am complaining seem nice on the surface, but only when you delve deeper to you encounter the cold hard center of their being.

People with great incomes and savings seeking to take advantage of the situation and entering loan modifications (then wanting to sue because their precious credit rating takes a 100 point hit).

People with significant wealth seeking to hide assets and income so as to be eligible for greater public benefits (and becoming irritated with me when I point out that the social services they seek to defraud are meant to help those in need.)

Large land owners seeking to torment smaller neighbors into giving up their holdings at a deep discount (by interfering with access, disrupting water flow and making noise at all hours with equipment.)

Forging documents, cheating siblings out of wills and trusts, strategic mortgage defaults, taking advantage of elderly relatives, widespread mortgage and Real Estate fraud and the so many other disappointing and disturbing means of weaseling undeserved or unneeded resources by people who simply don’t need what they are stealing.

As the economy gets tougher, the veneer is peeling back on these people, and they are reverting to their hard-wired programming of Me. It is almost as if they never grew past early childhood internally, but took on all the outward signs of adulthood (or even old age!)

It would be easy to say that this is normal, accept it as reality and just take who ever comes through the door as a potential client, represent them and “get mine”, but I can’t bring myself to do it. I am sick of these people and I am sick of the harm they have caused all of us, and I hate the fact that they are liquidating my children’s future knowingly and intentionally.

The greed that has infected so many is the root of all of our problems. From the Welfare Queen to the millionaire spending Social Security on golf dues, from the fraudulent mortgage applications and mortgage-equity withdrawals and the subsequent default, modification  and strategic walk-away scams performed by church-going “honest” people.

Individually, these people have done well for themselves. For their children and grandchildren, not so much.

They don’t care. So long  as they “got theirs”. The car, the house, the handbag and the belief that they deserve so much more is what drives them.

I believe that this situation is coming to a climax. We will all “get ours” eventually.

Collectively, we will get what we are asking for, that is for sure.

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