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This lady lost her home for which the mortgage had been paid up in 1984.  The city sold her tax lien rather than try to collect the money.  Some buyers are behemoths like JP Morgan Chase Co, some are local tax collectors.

The sum is that that most of these are not people who bought homes they could ill afford at the time, but rather, they got ensnared in the tax collector's devious tactics

Using a logic, read here,  that almost all the current ills on earth for mankind stem from over-population, Bill Ryerson has dedicated his life to the stabilization of human population numbers at a level that can be sustained by our ecosystem's resources.  He is the founder and president of the Population Media Center, a non-profit that seeks to improve the well-being of people by using -- believe it! -- melodramatic soap operas on radio and television throughout the developing world (and soon, the U.S.) to teach listeners and viewers important lessons relating to family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and environmental preservation, as well as a thing or two about women's and children's rights.

Alan Greenspan swallowed Ayn Rand's opinions whole heartedly, much to the disaster of the economy of the United States.  He followed her in her denial of allowing regulatory bodies...and she is not around to take responsibility.  It is people who make their living along the Gulf Coast and the people caught up in sub-prime mortgages and all the goodies the rich have pulled on the poor (or the 'small' people as the Chairman of BP called us).

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The sign turned out to be the one on
 the right!





It makes me wonder if we are dealing with professional media persons, or TV marketers.  One can readily understand why ratings are important but like many other jobs, is it worth prostituting one's self for ratings?  The above examples have not gone that far, but in the interests of not adding my voice to the many complaints being made for those who are, I simply pose the question.
    after the city sold her debt to investors through a contentious and byzantine legal process called a “tax sale.” This little-known type of foreclosure can enrich investors as growing numbers of property owners struggle to pay their bills

FREEDOM IS NOT BEING FREE OF GOVERNMENT

Foolish people, either too young or too ignorant to have read Lord of the Flies, might think they need no leadership, boundaries, controls or consequences for their actions. Those who are proponents of no governmental regulations are like the Lost Boys of Peter Pan, or like Oliver Twist with Fagin. There is always someone to lead the way...usually evading censure until what we would call 'too late'.

Such has our economic system been for far too long with not enough shame being felt by Greenspan for it. Osama bin Laden has promised he will break the USA economy and, while the common person has no way of knowing his direct influence on it, it would be foolish to assume he has had none.

Only macho men assume that power in is physical strength, greater ability to bully, and weapons that result in violence. More damage can be done in more surreptitious ways and have been being done without governmental regulations to stop it from happening. Brooksley Born was silenced by the majority of men who refused to think about her warnings or too selfish for their own financial gains to allow it to be heard publicly. These men do not have to pay for their mistakes. We, the people of the United States, are left to pay for their arrogance or greed.

We need governmental regulations and monitoring of the monitors. We have not learned from the government's mistake in hiring the best illegal hacker( for his knowledge of hacking computers) to watch over the security of consumers financial privacy. We do not need the phalanx of economists, who brought us to this terrible state, to continue. They will not make good; they will only continue to try to obfuscate their own tarnished reputations and misleading with poor advice. If they had known better then we would be in better shape. Why would we allow ourselves to believe they know better now? If they are advising better, there must be some wiser people around, from whom they have learned, who are free of conflicts of interest, who can put the economy on the right track. It is beyond me to believe that Greenspan, Paulson, Geitner, Bernanke, and Summers, et al from the past, have either in the past, or the present, been the sole men to have best managed our economy.

Greenspan, stupidly following Ayn Rand's policy to deregulate, should have proven he is a follower, not a leader. One should never put followers in charge because you never understand from whence their thinking derives. It seems we have been looking at the wrong causes and cures. You do not send a fox into the henhouse to discover why the chickens are missing....or is that what we have done, after all?