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[Phil Stracchino]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> I believe that if you take a big mortgage that you can't pay, and your 
> house gets repossessed, you got what you deserved, even if you were lied 
> to by the bank.  You should've known better than to listen to the bank.

Many people expect their bank - to whom they entrust the keeping of 
their money - to take proper care of it, and that includes giving them 
sound financial advice when they ask for it, or at least not actually 
outright lying to them.  And I contend that selling someone on a loan 
you know they can't actually afford to pay is outright lying to them. 
The basic problem here is that far too many lenders regard borrowers not 
as customers or clients, but as marks.

> But then, I also believe that there shouldn't be any laws against fraud. 
>  If you get taken by a con-man, you deserve to get taken.

Oh, so Enron didn't do anything wrong except get caught, then?  Survival 
of the crookedest shall be the whole of the law?


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