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To: Ilaine who wrote (76966)	7/27/2011 10:33:29 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218644

<Chinese sold us their crap goods, and we sold them our crap mortgages> That reminded me of: "We pretend to work; they pretend to pay us"- Soviet proverb Appropriate, since the U.S. now has a housing industry just like the Soviets: the government owns everything, the rules are so byzantine nobody understands them, the elite writes the rules (and rewrites whenever it suits them) so they never lose. Everyone knows the current system is unfair and unsustainable, and nobody has any hope of changing it.

To: Ilaine who wrote (76966)	7/28/2011 1:28:14 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218644

Are you in favor of Elizabeth Warren as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? You sound like her when describing the horrors unsophisticated financial consumers face.