Because the government is supposed to be based upon a democracy.  Where peoples votes exert the force to get certain things done. 

If well-off's surrounding housing projects have declining retail values because of them, they are going to exert their political pressure.  It will either be a) kick the poor out of the area by raising taxes or b) get the federal government to do something about it.   a) has some terrible backlash.  I mean, we are trying to have some empathy towards these people aren't we?

Either way, politicians will do whatever gets them those votes.

so... maybe affirmative action in banking is bad?

does not take a rocket scientist to figure out who you are talking about when you say affirmative action. by making it seem like she (and you) are not directly talking about blacks in general, you call them poor and unqualified instead. Ever heard of hidden racism? Anyone reading this article knows exactly what they are talking about. Next you are going to tell us Airlines and banks failed because "poor" people purchased tickets using credit cards and didn't make their payments. You want to blame the poor? Then here is a for you.

"In the past, we were taught to see others who are different as being deficient. We established arbitrary norms and then determined that anybody not like us was abnormal. But a change is coming because we no longer see others who are different as being deficient. We just see them as different. Over the past 50 years, thanks to the scholarship of dozens of expert in many different disciplines, we have come to see just how skewed, prejudiced and dangerous our miseducation has been."  -Rev. Jeremiah Wright



Leaders, prodimantly white, have ruined this country and miseducated us and this world for years. Maybe it is time for a minority to clean up their mess.

I'm interested to find out why anyone thinks this is a racist post at all.  It is a matter of numbers, not colors.  Nobody is trying to pin this on all the black people.  That is a ridiculous statement.  In fact, many people were interested in finding a way to help prevent any more forclosures from happening (no matter what color the owners happen to be).  What about the latin people?  What about poor white people?  Are black people the only ones that are poor in this country?  Was affirmative action in banking only for black people?  The fact still remains that loans were given out to people who could not make the payments when the economy changed.  Even if it turns out that the majority of people losing their homes are black, how does that in any way change the numbers?  And how does that make it a racist statement?  I'm not trying to be antagonistic here, I really am curious.  I get that many of you are irratated with Reaganite but all he did was post some information that could be another piece of the puzzle in how we got where we are today.  Some people may not agree with it but I didn't read anything that led me to the conclusion that anybody places blame on black people.   

Indeed

Exactly.  Although if you don't hide behind euphemisms like he does he will get banned. The owner has no sense of humor when stuff like that is concerned.

You do make some good points.  All of which I agree with.

As to being called a racist.  I've posted this before but it's been a while.  I worked with the most racist piece of shit I had ever known.  He was far worse than Pathetic is.  One day I had enough of his crap and told him I had enough of his blatant racism.  He was honestly surprised.  He said, 'I can't be racist!  I'm black!'.  And believed it.  I found a new job before I killed him. 

Yeah, let's go with that.

Ok explain this, if the poor trying to chase a dream of owing an house are to blame, then is the government buying out these companies? Its crooked politics. My buddies business is going under, lets give them $85 billion so that he can keep his $1 Billion pension plan and salary. This "bailout" is more of a choreoghraphy than the 2003 Iraq War was to scare voters. I wouldn't even under estimate ol' Bush telling soul searching Putin to put on another cold war scare to help him out. I fought hard for troops to help in Iraq. They betraded me and are making me look like an ass by saying a troop withdrawal is coming, when at first they said it would be a disaster. I am only a Republican because I believe in a strong military, that is the only thing I have in common with the current asshole Party right now. They are idiots, liars, and rich scumbags that are truely out of touch with today's society.