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Message: <blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 895430" data-attributes="member: 29553"><p>Still blaming the victims??  It was the banking industry that lobbied to make it easier for them to lend more people $$.  It is the responsibility of the brokers and the bankers and regulators to decide if a couple can afford a certain home.  People want to own their own homes.  But when rapacious brokers and bankers knowingly ok a loan to someone they know cannot afford it, who's fault is it??  Especially when they know that their faulty deal will be covered up in securitzed other loans in the market.  You continue to blame people who got hoodwinked into thinking they could afford those homes, people who do not know economics that well.</p></blockquote><p></p>