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| Permalink View Article Stats Promoted to Headline (H2) on 2/10/12: The Top Twelve Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement Quicklink submitted by Rob Kall (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| The various news services are touting this pact at the biggest multi-state settlement since the tobacco deal in 1998. While narrowly accurate, this deal is bush league by comparison even though the underlying abuses in both cases have had devastating consequences. The tobacco agreement was pegged as being worth nearly $250 billion over the first 25 years. Adjust that for inflation, and the disparity is even bigger. That shows you the difference in outcomes between a case where the prosecutors have solid evidence backing their charges, versus one where everyone know a lot of bad stuff happened, but no one has come close to marshaling the evidence. ...this settlement is yet another raw demonstration of who wields power in America, and it isn't you and me. It's bad enough to see these negotiations come to their predictable, sorry outcome. |
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