Old Joe's daughter was also listening. When she heard her father say that he had no job and no source of income, she couldn't help but wipe away tears.
Here again, the cultural differences between the East and the West appear.
It is the mainstream value consciousness for Eastern women to have a job and achieve economic independence.
But it is different in the West. There are so many housewives here! It is unimaginable in the East!
Not to mention the issue of happy education, even women who have received higher education and even graduated from prestigious universities have a lot of people who choose to go home to be housewives after marriage.
Men earn money to support the family, and women do housework and take care of children. It seems to be a natural thing here.
At present, this 80-year-old man goes out to rob, and the middle-aged woman has hands and feet, no disasters or diseases, but stays at home, washes clothes and sends children every day. This is also the general situation here. Bella has no position to blame the other party.
She is not going to talk nonsense about the issue of women's rights, which will go too far. She comforted Old Joe.
"Calm down. Anger won't solve the problem. We can resort to the law. I will consult a lawyer about the pension later. Let's talk about the Bank of the West asking you to buy financial products."
The old man was also very interested in this topic. He began to talk about how the bank staff used sweet words to deceive him into buying financial products. Not only did he lose all his principal, but he also had to use his house to pay off the debt.
The old man was crying and Bella felt a little uncomfortable.
The steel factory and Stark Industries were just playing tricks, relying on your pension and dragging it out little by little.
The bank was screwed. It used a lot of professional terms to confuse the old man and asked him to buy financial products while he was confused.
People here don't have the habit of saving. Thirty percent of people don't even have a thousand dollars in savings. The old man's whole family depends on his pension to make a living. What savings can he have?
Listening to the other party's exaggerated talk, no risk, high rate of return, high-quality projects, and national policy support, an 80-year-old man has long been out of touch with the times. What ability can he have to distinguish?
Old Joe and many of his co-workers used their houses as collateral, and then bought financial products that the bank staff themselves would not buy.
Bella and Natasha sighed as they left Old Joe's house, and then went to the home of 85-year-old Willy. There was no one at home, and after asking around, they learned that the old man had been hospitalized for kidney failure and was now on a ventilator.
The remaining 81-year-old old Yar was quite talkative, but his girlfriend urged him so much that he left after talking to them for ten minutes.
"Can you still find a girlfriend at the age of 81?!"
Bella was really shocked when she saw the silver-haired old lady who seemed to be in her seventies sweetly holding the hand of the 81-year-old old man Yar.
Natasha raised three fingers with an expression that said you've seen nothing strange: "What's the matter? Old Yar has claimed on many occasions that he can have sex with his girlfriend three times every morning!"
Bella took a closer look at the old man Yar again. He couldn't walk properly. He took small steps for a distance of more than ten meters for a long time, and he couldn't move his legs and feet! Can a body like this do it three times in the morning? I don't really understand you American old people!
"You are such good people!"
"May God bless you."
"Good children, there are too few kind-hearted people like you now!"
Bella and Natasha asked seven or eight other elderly people who had the same experience again. After they expressed their willingness to help the elderly seek justice, they received a lot of praise.
These things were useless to Natasha, they just made her happy after listening to them, but they were very useful to Bella!
The praises from the old people were sincere, and her enthusiasm instantly increased a lot.
Since she could receive praise, she immediately adjusted her original plan.
In the evening, the two deliberately picked a fight with two other groups of high school students who were also conducting social surveys.
Natasha's so-called "slightly knowledgeable" karate was still reliable. Although it was still limited to the level of ordinary people, she had strength and agility, and her understanding of fighting skills was even more terrifying. With Bella's help, they "convinced" several high school students with just a few punches and two kicks.
After they completed the first day of social survey, they had thirteen more brothers around them.
Demonstrations and prosecutions are the three magic weapons of social practice at this stage.
Natasha volunteered to organize demonstrations, and Bella used the little connections left by the previous air crash to try to go through legal procedures to ask for a future guarantee for these old workers in the steel plant.
Even the most stubborn Texans have to admit that New Yorkers are good at litigation. The lawyers who were looking for the flight crash were from New York.
Bella called the law firm that was currently handling the 180 flight crash. After knowing that she could not afford much lawyer fees, the other party still enthusiastically recommended a lawyer to her.
After seeing the lawyer named Jerry Hogarth, Bella felt that she was a little deceived.
This female lawyer looked too young, with black hair, a suit, and high heels. She was dressed meticulously, but judging from her face, she was only a few years older than Bella.
There was no personal assistant, and even the title on the business card was just a lawyer, not a partner of the law firm. This female lawyer was obviously a fresh graduate.
Jerry Hogarth accepted the commission to sue the steel mill and Stark Industries for stopping pension payments, but he was a little embarrassed about the fact that the elderly bought financial products and lost everything.
"Miss Swan, I understand your original intention, but from a legal perspective, there are risks in buying financial products, and there is no suspected illegal content in it."
Bella is not a law student. The laws of each state are different here, and she has no idea whether it is illegal or not.
"Wouldn't this involve fraud?" she asked.
Jerry Hogarth shook her head and chuckled. If someone asked her this kind of question, she would just perfunctorily answer it, but when she saw Bella's face, she still patiently and carefully explained the difference to her.
"If the signatory is mentally normal, has not been coerced, concealed, or deceived, then the investment agreement signed in this case has a legal basis. Investment is risky. The elderly people you mentioned will have their houses taken away by the bank. As a person, I am very sorry, but as a lawyer, I don't recommend spending a lot of energy on this."
Bella scratched her head. The female lawyer made it very clear, and she was not someone who could not listen to advice.
According to her original intention, it would be best to block the elderly from buying financial products. At such an old age, what kind of financial management can they do! But financial management is the mainstream here, and she can't think of any rebuttal.
"Well, let's focus on the payment of pensions first. How should we do it specifically?"
Jerry Hogarth thought for a moment: "Do you know how to file a joint lawsuit? Find as many victims as possible and file a joint lawsuit."
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