My sincere hope is that I’m about to indulge in a bunch of vitriolic rumor-mongering. I don’t want this to be real.
Posts Tagged ‘Addie Polk’
Bloody Porridge
Posted in The Trip, tagged Addie Polk, foreclosure, greed, Karthik Rajaram, media manipulation on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Mess of Porridge
Posted in Light, The Trip, tagged Addie Polk, bailout, Bank of America, Countrywide, foreclosure, greed on October 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I can speculate that she may have needed the loan for medical bills and funeral expenses for her husband, but I don’t actually know that. What I do know is that she must have been pretty desperate for money to sign her house over for it. Because there’s no doubt that she didn’t think she’d pay on that loan for 30 years and get it paid off when she was 116 years old.

