Ruben asks: Cynical responses aside, why didn’t the American government pay the mortgages of people so they could keep their homes with that $700 billion? Then the banks would have got their money too. It would have helped PEOPLE. I did economics classes for years, but I still don’t get this.
Sparx replies: In a word, corruption.
I just read this report on Somebody Think of the Children having just seen it commented on by Cameron Reilly on Twitter and shared by Alex in Google Reader. I’m speechless. Game over man, game over.
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