My Dear Friend,
I agree with you. Under ideal conditions, there would be something
called "personal confidentiality". Today, applying for a mortgage is
like making full disclosure in running for public office. So much of
today's business is conducted by computer that the personal element is
gone. I remember sitting in a banker's office, reviewing my loan request
for a mortgage, shaking hands and getting the loan...then seeing the same
banker every time I visited the bank to make a deposit or make a payment.
This time aroung, I was screened by a mortgage broker, heard from seven
banks before I was finally advised at the closing that I was being
financed by a Savings bank in Brooklyn!!...and God only knows who my
mortgage may be sold to and how many times!
We live in a very impersonal world today and to a large extent have
mearly become our SS number. That is one reason why this site is so very
important...it is using the machine for what it was originally intended
for...to bring people TOGETHER!
About the "That's Outrageous" section, I guess that's why I keep my
Reader's Digest right next to the camode!!LOL
God Bless my friend. By the way, did you ever get the picture of me and
my gang from Marty? I'll send off a short bio by tomorrow.
John...hell, I'll do now:
Hi, I'm John Lehner, a 56 year old cancer survivor who was
diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the nose and mouth.
After extensive surgery involving removal of my nose & upper
jaw, reconstructive surgery, and 27 radiation treatments I am
"cancer free". I currently work full time in administration
of a cancer research center in New York and have the support
of my wife, four girls and all my family on mol-cancer.
Ross Ylitalo wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Your probably right about the SSN, and in a way I agree with your
> choice not to worry about it. I don't get the Reader's Digest, but
> when I do pick one up and read the "That's Outrageous" section
> I wonder "what good did it do to read that?--now I feel outraged and
> helpless."
>
> Then, on the other hand, I somehow think of American Revolution,
> how some of the Colonists took issue with the way they were
> ruled. Some people were passive, the feeling being "what good
> would it do get upset about it?"
>
> I guess this health number arguably is a lot less extreme than the
> American Revolution, and I certainly am anything but militant! I
> guess I don't like a health number. I don't know, but imagine a
> system in which all numbers beginning with an "8" denote people
> who have had a "terminal" illness. Then, when talking to your
> banker, the computer sorts you into the "high-risk" pile for loans
> and mortgages, and the banker is powerless (by the rules of the
> powers-that-be) and can only say "I'm sorry, but your request
> has been denied."
>
> So, if I was asked to vote on the Health Number issue, my check
> would go in the "No" box, unless someone showed me how this
> number was actually going to be benificial to all.
>
> Love,
>
> Ross
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