Acorn spokesperson defends breaking into Foreclosed homes.

[Burgoon123]

There's a great book called "REO BOOM" that just came out that has step by step procedures on how to become a successful REO agent. It gives the inside secrets how to get listings from the bank directly. I hope you find this book helpful.

[smith8051]

nice video.......

[DRTomater]

Screw the banks ! They are crooks! They stood trillions from us and they want the rest to. Plus fox news is a joke that should be put out of business.

[kjonesy33]

I love the use of "taking advantage" at 3:47

[CyberSpaceman81]

The 90's were a boom time, but were actually over inflated in value by shady market overestimation. The house bubble was equally beloved in it's time by Liberal progressives like Bertha. They wanted their "protectorate" to have home loans, no matter what had to be done. So the unrealistic deflated rates didn't bother them at all back then. Only now when reallity says that they couldn't have ever afforded a house, are people like Bretha getting mad about it. Well here comes reality Bertha.

[TheeLynnChase]

Yeah People meaning THE BANKS! Fighting for your home is the most American thing we can do! The banks never gave anyone loans! They made the borrowers an integral part of a DERIVATIVES SCHEME!!! This guy is a MAJOR A**HOLE!!! The banks ROBBED AMERICA CAUSED THE BUBBLE AND MADE 10 TIMES THE VALUE OF THE NOTE BEFORE THE BORROWER CLOSED ESCROW they are now just being vultures picking the bones after using and abusing the borrowers! He is full of propganda. What a condesending jerk.

[CyberSpaceman81]

Shes just a mouthpiece for Liberal Socialist Values. Doesn't want to admit that the mortgage payers have missed their payments and have run out of time make them. That is how the real world works Bertha. Well except for you and your fellow morally trite over emotionalized Liberals. I wonder if they would do the same for Stuart Varney here if he missed his payments. LOL Somehow I think not.

[duffbeer360]

another problem w/ capitalism, when will America grow up?

[BLAZE45]

THUMBS UP IF YOU THINK BOTH ACORN AND FOX NEWS IS FULL OF SHIT,

[crystalbrookfarms]

This song is for the Dick less reporter... you tube.com/watch?v=nlF1qnhmq28

[crystalbrookfarms]

This song is for the Dick less reporter... youtube.com/watch?v=nlF1qnhmq2­8

[crystalbrookfarms]

Dick Less A--! hope God gives you the Opportunity to loose Your job, all of YOUR retirement money, and YOUR Home. Then lets see if you still sing the same tune! by the way unless you are paying MY TAXES Too, it is not all YOUR Money!  It is OUR Tax, money the people that have been working their butts off to save their homes, that are paying towards the Banks Bailout and they are making us sleep in boxes. This song is for you and the others that are so quick to pass judgement

[CyberSpaceman81]

@crystalbrookfarms It is the private sector middle class that has to pay for the lives of the unions and Bertha's "protectorate" with their taxes. Unlike you, many of your liberal brotheren live off the teet of "social justice" social engineering and pay little to any taxes. btw...If you have lost your social security retirement, then maybe be mad at Liberal big government who uses it as a thing to be spent by them. Their monetizing of debt has lowered your remaining retirements worth too.

[junkymagi]

They don't know the difference between civil and criminal?

[MsLoveMe27]

I'm black and I agree with the news anchor man. I rent a house from a landlord who has a mortgage that she has to pay. If I don't pay my rent then guess where I am...OUT ON MY ASS. I have a lein holder on my car and I pay them 250.00 a month until the car is paid off. If I don't pay then guess where my car goes....BACK TO THE FINANCE COMPANY because it's not mine anymore if I don't PAY FOR IT

[Bren565]

@MsLoveMe27

no kidding.. isnt this lady totally nuts :S

why would the bank kick people out of 'their' homes if they didnt pay? the banks LIKE people who pay..

[UndercoverCracker]

Fuck Acorn and fuck Obama.

[2purple79]

Big Bertha is a bitch

[kdj0172]

this is about the most ridiculous woman I've ever heard speak. She practically admitted to forcing the banks to give the bad loans, and then she blames the banks and wants taxpayers to bail them out. It's unreal.

[ruthiness]

ACORN = THUGS

ACORN = SHIT

ACORN MUST GO

[ruthiness]

Quote from Bertha "We WISH we could force banks to our will" OMG well that shows EXACTLY what she and others want in the US - they want CHAVEZ style government takeovers of everything turning hard working Americans into soylent green.

[ruthiness]

I love how ACORN participated in EXTORTING BANKS to loan money to high risk low income homeowners and then they turn around and support squatting in that foreclosed house that they contributed to in the first place. They are playing both sides and it's high time ACORN be shut down for good!

Stuart Varney is right. Bertha Lewis is WRONG.

[petermaxx1]

being foreclosed on is bad, m'kay? and foreclosure is bad, m'kay? so if you don't pay your mortgage, you still get to stay in that house, m'kay? so the mean evil bad banks have to let the delinquent mortgage holders stay in the home because it's good to have a home, m'kay? and the President is good, m'kay? and so when his plan kicks in it will keep the people who can't afford their mortgage from being foreclosed, m'kay? and then there won't be a mortgage crisis, m'kay? and she's lying

[SwingGirl20]

Thats ridiculous. I've been in tight spots myself. Work hard do what you can, and deal with what life gives you. The important thing is to learn from those experiences and don't let them happen again if they're bad. Thats how life works.

[tmf1977]

Foreclosures happened because banks were forced to give loans to people who were high risk to begin with. Now we have banks that needed to be bailed out, foreclosed homes, lower home prices, and people now with even poorer credit than they originally had. Thanks Acorn!

[tgogo72]

send that hood rat to Prison, where she belongs!

[omilkhouseo]

please tell me that you don't agree with ACORN for what it stands for (helping low income families) and not what happens to do (help MINORITY AKA BLACK families). this blatant racism has got to stop.

[News4usall]

Hey don't be so quick to judge Acorn - underage hookers need homes too!

[NoiseCollector]

Sure beats pimping illigal immigrant children... oh wait... nevermind.

[willzmom]

So let's get this straight..I can stop paying my mortgage and the bank forecloses on my home but I should be able to live in it for FREE? Huh, here I have been working and paying my bills all these years!

[EAP775150]

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

There is no rational discussion with them. There is never an 'agree to disagree' moment.

This ACORN clown-ess cannot answer a single question squarely.

[kd7one]

So, that's what the twilight Zone looks like...Wow!

[lebihus00]

this lady is the PERFECT EXAMPLE of the kind of mind set that Obama has on Healthcare. No wonder he acts the way he does

[DARFTACOS]

So this is why all the apartments are full of white people!!!!

[SokViChet]

I cannot comprehend how this woman can continually assert that someone who is being evicted for not paying their bills, is in fact... paying their bills? Wha? Who can watch this and support these thugs?

[youcutmelegoff]

I do because its better than making people homless

[SokViChet]

If you don't pay for it, you don't get to keep it. You are not entitled to whatever you want simply because you want it. I have a feeling you'll learn this lesson the hard way.

[omilkhouseo]

alright. lets think of it like this. you are working hard, maybe you have two jobs. but its not enough, you have to remortgage your house. so you do. little do you know these companies finance the house so that you "pay a little now, worry about the rest later!!" they SPECIFICALLY targeted low income groups that they knew couldnt pay them back with the interest rates on them. except they didnt even think about their own consequences, like whats gonna happen when nobody does pay them back.

[Budguy68]

Both the finical company and this people should loose then.

[herbs814]

Government compelled the mortgage companies to loan to people at high risk of not being able to repay the loans. The mortgage companies did not do anything wrong. The crisis is ENTIRELY the government's fault.

[norr4636]

@youcutmelegoff Making people homeless? People make themselves homeless by not paying every month and getting behind 3-6 months constitute not paying your bills. Paying lights, water, cable, car note and not paying the mortgage will constitute being on the streets

[akaguardian]

anyone ever notice that all of the members for ACORN that actually work for ACORN are black?

Just makes my predisposition that i have of black people having a chip on their shoulders and thinking that the world owes them everything

[norr4636]

@akaguardian As a black conservative, I don't have a chip on my shoulders and I know the world doesn't owe me anything. But I do get what you're saying.....on some level. ACORN is a fraud

[akaguardian]

When i posted that i was slightly drunk lol, my apologies for being an insensitive prick. Where i live my experiences with blacks has always been one ending in a negative feeling. Ive been mugged while on my job, ive had a gun put in my face while on the job, and ive had black people try to intimidate me with physical violence just to get what they want from me. i work in a field that services lottery equipment and most of my service calls are in neighborhoods that are predominately black

[loszhor]

It's not their homes anymore you stupid lady.

[asobermindisawasted1]

Gees... people will steal anything, even if it's on a foundation.

[panther9mm]

What we need right now are ACORN people helping renters. When the landlord tries to kick you out just don't leave and call it your home, and give the landlord 2 dollars a month, and say you paid your bill.

[panther9mm]

This is ridiculous. Those people pay 2 dollars a month to pay for their house. They pay their mortgage every month, that guy is an idiot for even arguing.

[TripperLV]

I just want to throw-up. ACORN is just full of shit!

[Plowman212]

They haven't paid their bills. That is the bottom line. Listen to this lady beat around the bush.

[hopeaudacity]

Go Acorn - go lady!

[Sinead522]

It is so disturbing that this lady just does NOT get it....pathetic.

[michael930]

She was about to say that the constitution gives you the "pursuit of happyness." Key word being "PURSUIT" not "PROVIDE."

[bronc30td]

it is not a human right to live in a house, that you aren't paying for, and that you couldn't afford to pay for in the first place.

[Txman1996]

ACORN-help I can't pay for my auto loan. ACORN-I can't pay my light bill-help. Thanks for taking more of my tax dollars. Bunch of squatters. HAHAHA-"...invaded and stolen..." Good luck ACORN.  I hope Madoff didn't take any of your money when he went down. Boy, would that be a IRONIC!

[alexiglass]

I get it!

The banks have no money.

so they get a bail out from the public.

then the banks kick the public out of there homes.

[devo3379]

One thing that you didn't get is that people like this who bought houses they couldn't afford is what is the very thing that caused this financial crisis we're in. How can you blame the banks for someone else not paying their mortgage. If these people had simply lived within their means the banks wouldn't need bailing out. I'll admit that these balloon mortgages were less than straightforward but the fine print was there. It's not the banks fault they didn't read it.

[bronc30td]

no...you don't get it.

The Community Reinvestment Act forced banks to make bad loans to people who couldn't afford them.

Those people did not pay back said loan.

Housing market crashes.

Banks are saddled with worthless debt.

The government bailed out Fannie/Freddie.

Banks kick those people out of those houses they are not paying for.

[phishinguy2000]

This is the problem with 90% of the idiots who voted for obama! They think its their right to own a home. Its not, its a PRIVILEDGE! Chin said it right, their not the "homeonwer" the bank is! The reason banks are so fucked up is because idiots like Pullosi and Franks made them give out NINJA loans, NO INCOME, NO JOB NO ASSET loans! This illiterate fool bertha is what Acorn chooses as a spokesperson? Bertha needs to go break into a 3rd grade grammar class more then anything!

[FireElemental456]

The question the anchor jerkoff won't listen to is by what right do the banks have to take my money 850 000 000 000 from Bush and another 787 000 000 000 to pay their bills instead of going belly up? The ironic and funny part is that the banks need the money from the bail out / stimulus package to hire Repo Man to throw ppl out their homes in which banks get no income from that home so they need more bail out to hire more repo man LOL

[chinisup]

Someone needs to inform this idiot that the BANK OWNS the house until it's paid off - therefore - it's the BANKS property - not the home owners!

If the home owner can't make the payments they loose their right to live in that home and they signed a contract agreeing to that -

More so Obama's plan won't help those who have already been thrown out of their homes -

Sheeesh Obama is this the hope and change you promised - encouraging people to break the law?

[swimkin]

People that got homes that couldn't afford them DON'T BELONG IN THEM.

And those that are foreclosed COULD NOT AFFORD THEM. They should not have been in them in the first place.

Where is the personal responsibility in all this??

This is not a white, black, red or green issue. If you buy something you can't afford and it hasn't been completely paid off yet. It doesn't belong to you. You should expect to lose it... whether it is a car, a house, a boat, or a log cabin.

[flightlevel66]

"The New Deal", "The Great Society" - Grandiose welfare plans started in the 40's, continuing to this day. Massive funding - around a trillion dollars and counting. All brought about to "help the poor". All these programs have done is keep the poor - poor (and uneducated). Then the government lets some of these people buy houses to "lift them up". How can anyone learn personal responsibility - they have NEVER been accountable for anything. The GOVERNMENT has created this monster.

[doc7474]

Acorn can't defend it's actions, apparently they are allowed to get away with them though. It's sure to continue with Obama manning the ship. This is just tearing the country apart.

[bloominbilgerat69]

I'm an american citizen of the USA. I love what my country stood for years ago. I hate my country. I can't stand the attitude of our leaders, and of most of our citizens.

Our politicians are pussies. They refuse to do what's right, when it might cost them votes. People who've lived here for generations who don't have medical insurance can't get the help they need, and meanwhile illegals get FREE care, with no obligation to pay it back.

the lady in this video is a deluded and a dullard

[crusades0917]

She is representative of the attitude of American blacks... They want the government to provide them welfare from cradle to death. so they can stay home have babies and eat junk food until their asses are broad as a barn. The U.S. should have been shipped blacks to Africa after the civil war this would have saved American's trillions of dollars & a lot of grief. Remember Acorn is Obamas favorite organization as their former attorney.

[norr4636]

@crusades0917 I take issue with your assessment on Blacks. I'm an educated Black American man who don't expect anything from Govt. I am a conservative and work hard for everything I have in my life...BUT YOU ARE correct about the welfare state. But historical facts point out that the welfare (not food stamps) was created for blacks but mainly for whites until the Lyndon Johnson expanded the social program.

[brotherscoobs]

damn did he nail her...lol all she could do is talk in circles...typical libtard

[themunz126]

One of the homes that they "re-took" in Chicago area was already SOLD to some other people. They broke into someone else's home that the bank didn't even have control over.

They belong in jail for doing this. What about the person who bought the home that was foreclosed? Do they have the right to defend their home that they are PAYING for?

ACORN = Organized criminals.

[misterwipedown]

i this woman crazy? protect 'your home'? Are you kidding me. You DON'T own it!

[DRGMW42]

Yea and where in the bill of rights does he say to bail out negligent criminal CEO's and corporations? Stupid right wingers. Hope you never lose your job, not likely though.

[sia0608]

most right wingers are against any bailout now that pres bush's bailout didn't work.

[bloominbilgerat69]

DRGMW42,

you're right.....but are you insinuating that ACORN's actions are somehow rationalized or justified, because the "stupid right wingers" passed legislation you disagree with? News flash, OBAMA isnt exactly a right winger, and he just gave billions to companies who didn't deserve it.

You sound as ignorant and ridiculous as this woman on the vid clip.

[DRGMW42]

yea they had no right, just like enron, lehman brothers, maddoff had not right to be white collar criminals. This is not a liberal issue, it is about when the rich do poorly we all suffer, when the rich do well, the poor still suffer. BAIL OUT ThE LITTLE GUYS

[sherryande1995]

Donna Hanks initially purchased her home (315 South Ellwood, Baltimore, MD 21224) on 7/06/2001 for $87,000. She re-fi'd in 2005 for $270,000, went into bankruptcy in 2006, this was the 2nd foreclosure. The $300 a month was actually $340 a month she agreed to re-pay as she was over $10,000 behind in her payments. The house was sold in July 08, they couldn't get her out until September 08 after not paying anything for over a year. Poor, poor victim!!!!

[YTdawn]

ACORN: Always Cheating Or Robbing Neighborhoods

These clowns owe reparations to everyone harmed by their wanton disregard of the rules. They have no right to Spendulus money after nearly bringing down the global financial system. Pointing to their shill in the Oval Office as entitlement curries no favor since the Saudis who are directing his teleprompters don't care that much about urban blacks. ACORN has ripped off America and have the nerve to try to blame George Bush! How stupid.

[SigalaSigala]

Typical liberals-don't know the facts. The monthly payment on this house was $1995, but her monthly income after taxes was only $2220, leaving her only $225 a month for food, gas, electric bills, etc. etc. She had no business buying that house to begin with. But, Barry Hussein didn't tell you this, and you won't hear it on the news, so you will never believe it.

[crowtservo]

She is right on, man! I was paying my mortgage on time every month and they foreclosed on me. I asked them why and they said "You voted for Obama!"

[puck30]

If they were paying their bills they would not be foreclosed on. They were behind in their bills! WHAT THE F**K AM I MISSING?

[KCUAC]

i can't seem to find it in the Constitution or Bill Of Rights........ nothing about a free house from the Government............... ACORN is OBAMA'S little baby