An onlooker assessing the eminent threat to the American way of life could easily see that it’s not Al-Qaeda terrorizing our lives; but our creditors. The American Foreclosure Epidemic has spun to a all time high and sits in the grip of a loathing limelight. More than 861,664 foreclosures were reported in 2008 says CNNMoney.com and with foreclosures up 81%, a call to action must be sound.

The call has been heard by the press and the Loss Mitigation industry has seen a great deal of scrutiny, highlighting a multitude of fraudulent dealings. But what evidence do we have that the call has been applied by the Loan Modification. Even though President Obama has called forth a restructure of the process and lenders are being bailed, who is to say that the banks are not still on the winning side?

Obama’s Foreclosure Rescue Act threw a $75 billion lifeline to home owners towards a government effort stimulate loan modifications. Counting the current track record:

•The FHA Secure: projected to help 80,000 Actually Helped 266
•Hope for Homeowners: Projected to help 400,000 Actually helped 312

Now we can hope with 75 billion riding the ticket we may be able to break a thousand, but
realistically where does that put 98% of all home owners? Now I agree we have to act aggressively and quickly to solve the uprising uprising. However were here other alternatives much more significant that we could have been addressed a long time ago?

The St Petersburg Times recently covered a story about a senate bill which that would have allowed bankruptcy judges to modify primary residential homes facing foreclosure. This modification referred to as cramdown, not only would this have helped hundreds of thousands of Americans facing foreclosure, but would have encouraged a level playing field between Banks, Loan Modification Company and Court.

Through the favor of the lobbyist this motion has been put on the shelf even though endorsed by the President. Cramdown would have given the loan modification epidemic a much more local control avoiding the bank run around and trickled paper filings. These stalls from the Banks, experts say, could be from their massive amounts of paperwork, or realistically to not mark the books with the accurate numbers of the loss on mortgages.

With the financial mogul’s Freddie and Fannie being bailed out for $280 billion and the recent rulings to an only allow the lenders to modify loans under their investors scrutiny, Americans have a new terror threat to its “home land stability” A threat even greater then we have experienced through the tyrannical control of the quality of life and economical stability. We Americans are at the forefront of a threat that resemblances the same guile to the oil industry.