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In the discussion thread: Can't people on DU find forgiveness in their hearts? [View all]

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Tue Jan 24, 2012, 12:37 AM

ProSense (98,089 posts)

4. What

Our President wants to put the robo-signing mess behind us. Why is that so controversial? Have we become so hardened that we cannot find a little forgiveness in our hearts?

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Tomorrow is a new day. Let's forgive and forget.

...if this turns out like the Social Security announcement in the last SOTU?

What if we're surprised? Remember the CFPB:

The CFPB had already rolled out a public education campaign, “Know Before You Owe,” to improve financial literacy on the consumer side as well before Cordray officially took office last week. But Obama’s recess appointment unleashed the watchdog’s full enforcement authority. Over the past few days, the CFPB also launched its first known investigation into a financial firm, probing kickbacks that were allegedly paid to PHH Corp., a private mortgage lender.

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94 replies	Author	Time	Post
Can't people on DU find forgiveness in their hearts? [View all]	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	OP
Talk to some Homeless Folks about it	FreakinDJ	Jan 2012	#1
No, they are nasty people.	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	#2
i'm feeling all warm and fuzzy. what is that? please make it stop...	think	Jan 2012	#6
That was me, Manny. I wasn't yelling bad words. I was trying to breathe.	russspeakeasy	Jan 2012	#78
So that was	Zorra	Jan 2012	#93
Yeah, sure...	Earth_First	Jan 2012	#3
What	ProSense	Jan 2012	#4
Bookmarking this for tomorrow. Really interested in your response to Obama's announcement then. nt	riderinthestorm	Jan 2012	#9
I couldn't understand the response, but then	truedelphi	Jan 2012	#72
Rep. Conyers: Obama Demanded Social Security Cuts--Not GOP	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	#10
Wait	ProSense	Jan 2012	#13
You think that attempts to slash Social Security are funny?	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	#14
I	ProSense	Jan 2012	#17
How could he possibly announce cuts at the SOTU? He simply called for them	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	#21
Hmmm?	ProSense	Jan 2012	#26
An unfortunate choice of words	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	#27
.	ProSense	Jan 2012	#28
I love it when you pull out the laughing guy	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	#30
.	ProSense	Jan 2012	#34
Well,	progressoid	Jan 2012	#69
Here's	ProSense	Jan 2012	#75
Thanks Manny for putting this in perspective.	Luminous Animal	Jan 2012	#5
Short, sweet, and almost Onion worthy.	Lionessa	Jan 2012	#7
Definitely shalot-worthy	DeathToTheOil	Jan 2012	#11
I like shallots.	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	#12
I commend you	DeathToTheOil	Jan 2012	#18
Allow me to bestow the honors	Nuclear Unicorn	Jan 2012	#61
The sarcasm's pretty subtle on this one... n/t	backscatter712	Jan 2012	#8
Manny's sarcasm is always subtle.	provis99	Jan 2012	#81
In a post like this from Manny, how could anyone not get the sarcasm? Consider the source.	gateley	Jan 2012	#85
Maybe it is good to practice sarcasm now. After the nomination, we may be limited to using it.	AnotherMcIntosh	Jan 2012	#15
Kay an Arrrgh! nt	Vanje	Jan 2012	#16
I'm not sure that the progressive thing would be to penalize the 100s of thousands...	joshcryer	Jan 2012	#19
And just what did I propose?	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	#25
Nothing at all, as is par for the course.	joshcryer	Jan 2012	#29
But didn't you accuse me of projecting a "truly non-progressive value system"?	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	#31
Nope.	joshcryer	Jan 2012	#32
I was being sarcastic.	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	#33
So, you do hold the non-progressive values I ascribed to you.	joshcryer	Jan 2012	#35
They signed pretty straightforward affidavits, no?	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	#36
Under the auspices of MERS-enabled proxy. The electronic nature of MERS...	joshcryer	Jan 2012	#37
I thought they attested to false information	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	#38
They're handling it state by state. The GOPers tried to legalize MERS' actions across the board...	joshcryer	Jan 2012	#39
It's "non-progressive" to want criminals in the banking industry punished for their crimes?	Matariki	Jan 2012	#62
You'd let the mucky-mucks go free, Manny?	tpsbmam	Jan 2012	#87
As a former banker...	Chan790	Jan 2012	#45
It is highly unconventional to expect peons to know other states' laws.	joshcryer	Jan 2012	#46
You are ignoring the assertion that those you call "peons" needed certifications for the job...	LooseWilly	Jan 2012	#48
That's now how it works, you're licensed in the state you work in.	joshcryer	Jan 2012	#50
See, once you use the word 'peons' to frame financial industry people	Bluenorthwest	Jan 2012	#53
Bullshit	MFrohike	Jan 2012	#80
Agree ...it's like working for Al Capone as a book keeper and saying "I never killed anyone or ... "	L0oniX	Jan 2012	#66
So if you work for Al Capone as a book keeper you are not guilty of murder. Ok.	L0oniX	Jan 2012	#67
The point is, if this nation did not rank 27th in terms of Social Justice,	truedelphi	Jan 2012	#73
The banksters are willing to generously forgive the people they ripped off and hold no grudges.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Jan 2012	#20
I know that you're mocking me	MannyGoldstein	Jan 2012	#22
Maybe we aren't mocking you.	truedelphi	Jan 2012	#74
Oh poor dears	nadinbrzezinski	Jan 2012	#23
A 25 billion dollar penalty isn't forgiveness...	bhikkhu	Jan 2012	#24
Would it be a "good fit" I stole a couple grand of your money and got off clean for $20?	TheKentuckian	Jan 2012	#40
Who's going to pay that $25 billion?	eomer	Jan 2012	#49
A 25 billion dollar penalty...	rucky	Jan 2012	#51
yep.	unapatriciated	Jan 2012	#55
Chump change for them.	L0oniX	Jan 2012	#65
25 Billion compared to 7 Trillion from QE	_ed_	Jan 2012	#63
...all of which was short-term loans in relatively small amounts	bhikkhu	Jan 2012	#90
I keep wondering how Martha Stewart feels about all this.	truedelphi	Jan 2012	#76
Make it a trillion, then we'll talk.	russspeakeasy	Jan 2012	#79
For 1 trillion, you could buy the top 30 banks in the US	bhikkhu	Jan 2012	#89
$25 billion is a drop in their "stole from" bucket.	russspeakeasy	Jan 2012	#94
So that whole penitence before forgiveness thing I learned in Catholic school has been superceded?	EFerrari	Jan 2012	#41
Penance?	gateley	Jan 2012	#86
Penitence means being sorry. Penance is the ritual prayers people do	EFerrari	Jan 2012	#92
indeed, to forgive is divine.	NuttyFluffers	Jan 2012	#42
Sorry,no forgiveness for corporations, cartels and crimminals at least until they are convicted and	kickysnana	Jan 2012	#43
If one of "the small people" steal $500 the call is for jail time, felon status, and	TheKentuckian	Jan 2012	#44
What a steaming pile of fuckrot! Forgive? Forget? Soon as they are held accountable.	lonestarnot	Jan 2012	#47
du rec. nt	xchrom	Jan 2012	#52
I can forgive, but I don't chose to forget.	Autumn	Jan 2012	#54
Delicious as always, Manny. K&R.	Brickbat	Jan 2012	#56
Look forward not backward	zipplewrath	Jan 2012	#57
Haha!	guitar man	Jan 2012	#58
Here ya go.	Swede	Jan 2012	#59
I'm sending those CEOs Valentines!	PA Democrat	Jan 2012	#60
Hopeychangeaforgivalicous.	L0oniX	Jan 2012	#64
OK, I forgive him. And I'll forgive him once more when it happens all over again.	Kablooie	Jan 2012	#68
I agree.	progressoid	Jan 2012	#70
Shoot them	The Wizard	Jan 2012	#71
No.	Zorra	Jan 2012	#77
Sarcasm . . . how'd we get through life without it? k-r'd nt	mistertrickster	Jan 2012	#82
Yeah I can forgive and forget!	jimlup	Jan 2012	#83
You sure brought a tear to my eye!	Better Believe It	Jan 2012	#84
LOL............MANNY	Skittles	Jan 2012	#88
LOL. Pretty good, pretty good. K&R. nt	Honeycombe8	Jan 2012	#91

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