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Posted by  CKEL on April 04, 2008
I agree that the benefits of this \'rescue\' plan seem to be going to the culprits, not the victims. IMO there are some true victims in this mess, but they are inextricably tangled up with people who are not really victims. Also the industry surely isn\'t a victim because it mainly created this mess. As long ago as the very early 2000\'s I remember seeing warning signs and outright warnings that these toxic loans, inflated appraisals, and lack of law enforcement were going to result in exactly what we\'re experiencing now. Not only were regulators asleep at the wheel, but the FBI found at least 80% of mortgage fraud--a proliferating crime--was being done by the industry itself. Now this same industry wants the tax payers to pick up the tab so it can go on doing the same things. Outrageous! I suspect my votes will go to the candidates who are not in favor of bailing out businesses from their own greed and stupidity. I also wonder why these industries aren\'t under more law enforcement scrutiny; what they did undermined the entire U.S. economy.

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