Reply #51: You know, at 63 and 55, it's quite doubtful there's any 'next time' for us.

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And I've seen little sympathy here on this ostensibly Democratic website for homeowners. I've seen the RW 'people who bought more home than they could afford,'propaganda repeated endlessly with little call for any accountability from the banks and WS who were far more culpable than people who were trying to buy a home and have a place to live.

Using a fraction of the money we handed to the banksters to help homeowners would have gone a lot further to stabilize the market but the Calvinistic attitudes of average Americans coupled with the insane belief in free markets and supply side economics dictate that we'd rather see the whole damned country fall than help one person who might not be 'derserving.' Americans would rather see 20,000 in the streets who did everything right and got screwed by the system than to think 1 scammer might have been helped. The irony of that is the same people see bailing out the banks and WS cartels who really didn't deserve it as 'necessary.'

After the attitudes I've seen from people towards homeowners who have lost everything they spent their whole life working for, would anyone expect us to give a damn if trying to hang on to our homes a little longer prolongs the suffering of others? What I see you defining as 'the suffering of others' is they aren't seeing their 401k's bounce back like they want. Good. Maybe they'll figure out they need to get their money out of that damned casino before WS steals it again.