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  1. Ms. Ima

    Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

    Let’s see… mortgages easy to get, anyone with a pulse could get one, no one was denied. People making payments are not having problems with the banks. People who didn’t make payments and the house went short sale or foreclosure. It’s not like someone who broke into computer databases and made private information public.

  2. foofinho

    foofinho said, 4 months ago

    Always the double standard.

  3. rpmurray

    rpmurray said, 4 months ago

    After a huge waste of taxpayer money this kid would have gotten off with a slap on the wrist. He was foolish to check out before the fight had begun and here the press is making him into a martyr because her didn’t have the stones to defend his beliefs.

  4. Radish

    Radish said, 4 months ago

    I knew Aaron because he e-mailed me with questions about some of my writings. After reading my book The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer, he asked me why we hadn’t made it available in html. When I told him that no one on my staff had the time, he volunteered to do it himself.
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    http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/aaron-swartz-a-tragic-early-death

  5. Radish

    Radish said, 4 months ago

    I’ll reluctantly grant the possibility that Aaron did something wrong, perhaps even criminal. But if U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and her boss, Attorney General Eric Holder, think it’s right to hold a 35-year term and a million-dollar fine over someone’s head for sharing information, much of which was already free, while not doing a goddamn thing to prosecute the people who ordered torture and blew up the world’s economy through fraud on a world-historical scale, then they have no business being anywhere outside an insane asylum.

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    http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/aaron-swartz-a-tragic-early-death

  6. Zuhlamon

    Zuhlamon said, 4 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    Let’s see, bank officers not exercising fiduciary responsibility by deliberately making mortgages with balloon payments available to unqualified persons, knowing they would fail, and then bundling those mortgages together as AAA securities (with the false blessing of corrupt underwriters) and selling them off to other companies, and then taking insurance (bets) that they would fail.
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    Ima, you are blaming the victims. Again.

  7. Ms. Ima

    Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

    @Zuhlamon

    Awww…. the victims were the people falsifying data to get loans and I am blaming them for not making their house payments and the mean banks taking the houses back. How mean of me. I feel so bad now. The banks were the mean corporations that took nothing down, loaned people money for their signatures and expected to be paid back. How evil of those banks. The ‘knew’ the people wouldn’t be paying them back and yet, the banks made all these bad loans anyway. Then the banks lost billions of dollars because they knew they wouldn’t be paid back. Clear as mud.

  8. echoraven

    echoraven said, 4 months ago

    @Radish

    Like the title of your book. Gonna have to look for it.

  9. Radish

    Radish said, 4 months ago

    @echoraven

    I didn’t write it, free HTML copy here:
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    http://deanbaker.net/images/stories/documents/cns.html

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