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The People's Bailout: Occupy is forgiving personal debt

Occupy Wall Street continues to show that it's more than just a simple protest movement. They have been doing amazing work with Hurricane Sandy relief and now there's Rolling Jubilee. Here's how Rolling Jubilee works:

OWS is going to start buying distressed debt (medical bills, student loans, etc.) in order to forgive it. As a test run, we spent $500, which bought $14,000 of distressed debt. We then ERASED THAT DEBT. (If you're a debt broker, once you own someone's debt you can do whatever you want with it - traditionally, you hound debtors to their grave trying to collect. We're playing a different game. A MORE AWESOME GAME.)

This is a simple, powerful way to help folks in need -- to free them from heavy debt loads so they can focus on being productive, happy and healthy. As you can see from our test run, the return on investment approaches 30:1. That's a crazy bargain!

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

I have read where this year will see a food crisis and further devaluation of the dollar. So buy food, ammo, guns, gold and silver, biodiesel makers, independent solar electric system components, and private wind generators----while you can.