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Being Poor and Maintaining Your Poverty Is a Very Expensive Proposition

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Rather than a complaint about how we treat our poor in this country, this is a cautionary tale about the next big explosion in consumer finance fraud. The same gamers are guilty of predatory lending and the house of (credit) cards they’ve built is about to tumble.

The numbers, when they begin to unravel, are three times what's at stake in sub-prime mortgages. Government hasn’t the foggiest notion of what to do.

Ben Bernanke is soiling his pants and the best Henry Paulson can come up with is to give us each $600 to go out and spend. Which is akin to buying your alcohol-addicted uncle a bottle of Jack Daniels.
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Great article by SpiritBlooms on Saturday, Feb 16, 2008 at 1:56:30 PM
This is the most important post of the day! by Mary Pitt on Sunday, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:16:05 AM
Over 100,000! by Margaret Bassett on Sunday, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:20:07 PM
Margaret, that's what my old daddy by Jim Freeman on Sunday, Feb 17, 2008 at 1:09:38 PM
Re: Margaret's comment by SpiritBlooms on Sunday, Feb 17, 2008 at 1:36:12 PM
Some people are poor due to lack of money... by memary on Sunday, Feb 17, 2008 at 8:14:59 PM