The government will bail out foreign debt loans, banks and big businesses who can’t make payments with special low interest loans (ie. Bear Sterns JP Morgan bailout colluding with government, South American government bailouts …) but when it comes to a distressed homeowner, they are routinely thrown to the wolves.
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