ladelfina
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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CA and armor, fine.. people who steal are equally bad. I think we know what generally happens when a random thug steals a modest sum vs. when a white-collar criminal steals a large one. Perhaps that conditions me.
You may think that "the accountability" of small-time debtors is passed on to the taxpayers, but the only bail-out I have seen so far is for big financial firms with extraordinarily-highly-compensated employees.
There was just a story in the Boston Globe of a woman who shot herself as her house was being foreclosed upon and they were to be out the next day. I'm not trying to make hay over that or curry sympathy that is unlikely to be forthcoming anyway.. but the interesting thing about the story is that the husband had petitioned for bankruptcy 3 or 4 times and had been rejected each time. So all that protection that you think "lucky" debtors have extended to them may not really be there in practice.
You may think that "the accountability" of small-time debtors is passed on to the taxpayers, but the only bail-out I have seen so far is for big financial firms with extraordinarily-highly-compensated employees.
There was just a story in the Boston Globe of a woman who shot herself as her house was being foreclosed upon and they were to be out the next day. I'm not trying to make hay over that or curry sympathy that is unlikely to be forthcoming anyway.. but the interesting thing about the story is that the husband had petitioned for bankruptcy 3 or 4 times and had been rejected each time. So all that protection that you think "lucky" debtors have extended to them may not really be there in practice.