FDIC Federal Register Citations

From: howenow44@yahoo.com [mailto:howenow44@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:24 PM
To: cra@ruralstrategies.org; Comments
Subject: SPAM::Community Reinvestment - RIN 3064-AC50

name: Robert W. Howe
address: 44 Fourth St.
city_st: Providence, RI
zipcode: 02906

I strongly oppose the proposed rule changes in the Community Reinvestment Act (RIN 3064-AC50). This action will do harm to rural communities. : I was born and raised in rural America, and though I now live in a city which has benefited from CRA, I frequently visit or drive through rural Pennsylvania where I was raised, as well as New York and New England, and as I look at the trailer parks and run down or abandoned farmhouses, and the signs of poverty in the small towns, I reflect that just as I feel a sense of loss by my family's economic displacement from the countryside, so the nation is losing it's balance if rural and small town life ceases to be an option. Please allow the CRA to have its intended impact.