The corporations run our government, and every aspect of this country. It is a plutocracy, not a democracy. Everyone knows - or should know - this by now. It is blatantly obvious. Therefore it should not come as a surprise that the laws of the country do not apply to the corporations, since the entire purpose of the U.S. federal and state and local governments is to keep the corporations as profitable as possible. That is the sole function of the U.S., at every level, in every policy decision, in every law that is written. Laws that hurt corporate profit - like fines or charges or arrests, causing negative publicity and possible loss of profit - are thus not applied to corporations.

Pretty simple math folks.

That's right. There is no rule of law anymore (except for the little guy). Without the rule of law, there is nothing to be loyal to anymore. America disappeared. The sociopaths rule and the politicians are their whores.

Corporations are often foolish, and the bigger they are the more foolish they get. Employees and managers try to get brownie points by not adequately staffing, not doing the job as its legally required, they cause additional distress for borrowers who are already in a desperate financial situation, then they get called on it and it costs the corporation far more than if they had done it right. Yes, legal remedies are the only thing that will help them to wake up.

Some rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen.

As a penalty they pay fines and suspend foreclosures? How about this--for every illegal foreclosure, restitution be paid directly to the mortgagee by cancelling the mortgage and granting them complete ownership of that property.

It's becoming trite to say so, but this circumstance again brings to mind the irony and doublethink abiding in the divided mind of complacent, unreflective citizens.

There is no end of outraged and sanctimonious hand-wringing, finger-wagging, and fist-waving when young citizens run amuck and violently misappropriate or wantonly destroy property and heinously assault innocent bystanders.

Such things are intolerable and "will not stand"! Swift, draconian response is deemed self-evidently right and proper, and is welcomed and applauded by decent, common-sense folk.

But a nefarious scheme for massive wholesale robbery and theft like "robo-signing", conceived and executed by a consortium of corporations with political allies and law enforcement either quietly enabling or passively winking at the swindle, raises hardly a whimper of protest or discontent.

To the extent that ordinary citizens are aware of this kind of systemic organized crime, the default response is one of more or less throwing up one's hands and saying in effect, "Yeah, it's crooked and rotten all right, but what are ya gonna do?"-- with a little gratuitous blaming of the victim thrown in for good measure.

"It's a federal crime to do this, yet no bank or banker has even been charged."

In other words, the "Dept. of Justice" is utterly corrupt, grossly incompetent, or both.

Is Hightower really still a Democrat? This is becoming ridiculous - or really, pathological.

If you're caught:
Robbing a home: Jail.
Stealing thousands of homes: A fine and restitution.

It's the criminal version of economy of scale.

Not sure why this foreclosure process is so complicated. If you are renter and stop paying you get evicted. foreclosures should be the same.

Miss one payment, get a reminder letter.
Miss two payments, get a second reminder letter and courtesy phone call.
Miss the third payment, strat looking for a rental place cuz the movers are gonna show up soon.

Simple, easy and the no dragging on for months on end. House goes back on the market, someone else buys it, prices get adjusted in the process and everyone moves on.

Florida's newly-elected Attorney General, Pam Bondi, is doing all that is in her power, and within the power of her office, to assist and protect the robo-signing lender-banks, including, but not limited to, driving out the fraud investigators in her office who helped to bring robo-signing to national attention. I would assume that similar things are going on in other Tea-Party-minded states such as Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, etc. And I'm sure the good people of those states are comfortable in the knowledge that their votes saved their state from rampant socialism.

An aware, informed and involved electorate is the backbone of our democracy.

I think the quote of the year should be our republican congressional representatives answer to the question "Why won't you rescind the Bush tax cuts and end loopholes for the wealthiest Americans?" Ann Marie Buerkle answered : " Why do you want to punish the rich?"

There have been several instances of banks "foreclosing" on property that was actually owned (with NO payments due at all) by the residents. It took those residents quite a bit of work to prove that the foreclosure was illegal...even when they had the deeds to the property...said deed stating that there were no monies owed. Additionally, there was a terrible state of granting mortgages to people who really did not qualify, but the banks wanted the money and so gave out those mortgages. Also, there is so much "fine print" in mortgages that most people do not understand and indeed are encouraged to ignore. This housing/foreclosure debacle has many sources, not the least of which was the deregulation of the banks (said deregulation instituted primarily by Republicans with the occasional Blue Dog Dem). It is time to re-regulate the banks (heavily) and work on ending corporate personhood. If we do not do so, we'll ALL be living in the streets....even the self-righteous nay sayers amongst us.

Unless the Department of Justice is dysfunctional, it needs to prosecute these white collar criminals. The populace can only tolerate a two-tier, unjust, unfair justice system for so long before there is civil unrest. Unless the DOJ is inept, it needs to do its job of restoring the rule of law and equal justice under the law before that happens.

We need an Eric Holder cam. How DOES that guy spend his days?