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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (750172)	10/29/2013 2:24:09 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

>No one was forced into subprime mortgages. They were deliberately lied into them. Swindled. >No one was forced to buy houses at what we now see were inflated prices. We had a societal understanding that house prices could never crater the way they did, and that owning a house was something that everyone was supposed to do, and it was pushed and pushed and pushed by the banks. Remember the "ownership society?" >The "liars" are bipartisan. Even Barney Fwank and Chuck Schumer were all for the housing bubble before they were against it. I didn't say they weren't. But now they have been trying to do the right thing. The right thing isn't nothing. -Z