(Due to its having helped caused the Bubble in the Housing Market, etc.), it is High Time to Repeal the ¡ § Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 ¡ ¨
By Kevin Stoda, a representative of thousands of harrassed victim of that Act
I have been dumbfounded at the lack of discussion in the USA and in Congress specifically on repealing one of the most devastating personal finance disasters of recent years. I am talking about the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, which has made it difficult for Americans of all types to properly negotiate or threaten bad- and usurous lenders (like Citibank, Bank of America, Freddy Mac, and various bottom-feeding credit-buyer or credit-swap firms around the USA) with bankrupcy.
The 2005 Act was pased to protect the likes of Citibank and friends from their onw usurous tendencies and free-wheeling charging of unfair penalties on loans to unsuspecting credit card users and home buyers in the USA.
Why should these banks and ill-run financiers--and the firms they trade our debt with-around-the-clock ¡Xbe allowed to continue to harrass Americans with penalties while they were bailed out in the trillions of dollars by the USA government with our tax money over the past 4 years?
It is insanely unfair not to grant reprieves to the Americans suffering under the thumbs of these goliaths.
Listen up, America!!!
NOTE: ¡ §The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) ( Pub.L. 109-8 , 119 Stat. 23, enacted April 20, 2005), was a law enacting several significant changes to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code . It was passed by the 109th United States Congress on April 14, 2005 and signed into law by President George W. Bush on April 20, 2005. Most provisions of the act apply to cases filed on or after October 17, 2005. ¡ ¨
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Abuse_Prevention_and_Consumer_Protection_Act
As of October 2005, those people who filed for bankurpcy were required to pay ¡ §much higher fees to bankruptcy attorneys, who ¡K. raise[d] their rates by as much as 100 percent. That [was] to account for the increased liability the new law impose[d] on them, which ¡K mean[t] more time verifying and filing client documents. ¡ ¨
Moreover, ¡ §[c]onsumers who . . . [sought] to file bankruptcy in the . . .months [thereafter] also [were expected to ] experience delays at the bankruptcy courts, which ha[d] been overrun . . . as debtors scrambled to file under the less stringent requirements of the old law ¡ ¨ as 2005 was coming to a close.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/17/pf/debt/bankruptcy_law/
CITIBANK & U.S. CREDIT MANAGEMENT DOUBLE TEAM ME
In late 2005, my own credit management firm, U.S.Credit Management of Texas, went belly-up within two months of the 2005 Act going into effect. (Because that scandalous Texas firm declared bankrupcy and pocketed my money before the end of 2005, I was out of 8500 dollars that should have been used in that year to pay down my credit card debt with various creditors.]
By the way, I had HAD to contract with U.S.Credit Management of Texas in 2004 after Citibank had unilaterally lowered my credit limit arbitrarily ¡Xi.e. without contacting me at all ¡X in winter/spring of the year before (2003) and then began to charge me penalties for their fraud.
NOTE: YES, I TOOK my claim against Citibank to the ATTORNEY GENERALS of TEXAS, Florida, New York, South Dakota, Kansas, and the USA. All of them agreed that what Citibank had done was unfair but they did not even slap them with a fine. Such was the pro-business, pro-banker and pro-fraud Washington climate during the 108th and 109th Congress.
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