By Rodney Anderson
My Fellow Americans,
One score and 7 years ago, I became involved in the mortgage business. I’ve and my staff have grown that business to the point where I am the No. 1 mortgage lender in the United States largely using the philosophy that I ask not what my clients can do for me, but rather, what I can do for my clients.
I am here today in order to form a more perfect union – a more perfect union between both sides of the political aisle, a more perfect union between various sides of the financial world … and a more perfect union between you and me and between you and your money.
We need to fix the unemployment problem in this country. Unemployment is dropping and that is a start but it is not enough.
We need to fortify the housing market. Owning a home remains a foundation of security for most Americans, and there are too many people in charge who have never been on the front lines of this battle as I have been.
We need to fix the financial education problems in this country. With our phones ringing off the hook with inquiries from you, I am convinced that what we discuss here on the radio every week, what we do on television and on RodneyAnderson.com … is working.
At the same time, we have a notion in this country called “No child left behind.’’ And yet when it comes to financial education, EVERY child is being left behind.
And when those kids grow to be adults, they grow to be FICO’ed … to be victimized by a Credit Cartel in which the powers-that-be play by their own rules. … They grow to deal with banks that are unresponsive to their needs. … They grow to lean on elected leaders only to learn that their elected leaders are in so many cases involved in government service because of how personally profitable is it to be on Capitol Hill.
I believe you are tired of the red tape and the rhetoric. I believe there are solutions in bipartisanship. I believe there are answers in some very simple formulas, like my Medical Debt Responsibility Act, which needs your support – contact your representative! – to pass. And when it passes, it will clear up credit problems, it will improve housing, it will create jobs, it will further educate Americans as to the chicken-in-every-pot options that should be available to all of us.
My office is a living, breathing, working laboratory that is about meeting people like YOU and discovering solutions. I have a slogan in my business. It’s not, “no,’’ but rather, “not yet.’’
That reflects on my belief that America remains a shining city on a hill … but that we need to hurry up and climb that hill. “Not yet’’? OK, but “when’’?
“When’’ is now!
So again, My Fellow Americans … Let’s ask what you can do for your country in ways that also further what we can all ensure jobs, housing and financial security for ourselves and our children.
Thank you and may God bless America.
