Reply #52: Gotta hang on to hope, but it's been 30 years of chipping away at regulations while at [View All]

[54anickel]

the same time getting the public to believe the fallacy that what benefits the corporation that pays their salary also benefits them personally. It's not going to get "undone" that quickly. We've slowly been indoctrinated into the notion that so long as it's "legal" anything goes and is fair game in the name of profits. We've accepted the notion of predatory lending by believing the stereo-type of "they deserved it, they had it coming, they're just some deadbeat low-life". In some ways it goes all the way back to the debate of punishment vs rehabilitation for crimes. Take it further into the religious debate and the rising acceptance of the notion of a hell and eternal damnation as punishment for "sins" defined by man. Funny how those defined "sins" have less and less to do with how we treat our neighbor...somehow the religious-right have managed to "deregulate" humanity in the name of profits and greed. It truly boggles the mind. :crazy: