Also to the comment about "no one held a gun to the banks heads to make these loans" This is false because the government fined the lenders for discrimination if they didn't make the loans. Some lenders of course got blinded by the flow of capital and specialized in making these loans. Our politicians started the mess, but would not take action and be painted as racist for suggesting any changes even years later! Not many politicians are not “maverick” enough to commit political suicide, and look like they discriminate.
Vote out all the crooks....end professional politicians with term limits, change their benefits so that they receive what taxpayers receive (health care and pension, etc.)
I can't see these changes happening any time soon, to bad for our nation. There's a strong chance we'll get the socialist Obama and his cronies kind of change like we've never seen before. All because Congress acts like the money to pay for all of this is off of the trees behind the Capital?! They will tax us for more and more to pay for their wasteful habits, that we enable.
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