content: If you want to hear something crazy... I talked to a lawyer about all of those mortgage backed securities.  Apparently, since the gov't bailed out the banks, well, the gov't, technically, owned all of those foreclosed houses as part of the insurance scam the banks were running (aka: mortgage insurance).  However, the gov't didn't realize that those houses belonged to them, and so the banks then took possession of the houses.  So the banks got the houses AND the insurance payout.  It was the biggest scam in the history of scams.  The (((bankers))) literally stole everything.