Rent-to-Own Congressmen and predatory lenders... [View All]

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September 1 -
There has to be a real special place in hell for people who rip-off our fighting men and women. A report on the Predatory lending practices to members of the Armed Forces was released this month and, almost amusingly, one of the offenders was the Texas-based Rent-A-Center.

The Rent-A-Center folks take their rent-to-own philosophy right to Congress, where Tom DeLay spent hours on their corporate airplane jetting around to golf matches. If you can rent a refrigerator to own, then surely you can rent a congressman to own, right?

Their new Rent-To-Own Congressman is Texas CD5’s Republican Jeb Hensarling. Thankfully, retired Naval Aviator and Vietnam Veteran Charlie Thompson of Dallas is running against him. A Vet won't sell the sole of his brothers and sisters for an private jet ride. You can donate a couple of bucks to Charlie on his website if you've had enough of this stuff.

As if its rent-to-own scam wasn't bad enough, Rent-A-Center just got into the payday loan business. There are many ways to profit off the Iraq war. You can rip-off the Pentagon - or you can just rip-off our soldiers.
Either way, you’re going to hell. In fact, I’m insisting on it.

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