a. “My personal disdain are for ‘secret societies’ that exclude others and attempt to use their collective power for the advancement of the personal and collective agendas that tend to target, discriminate, and harm others. This is especially true of Wall Street and the mortgage industry and will eventually end in its collapse, a calamity to which our generation has never faced.” b. “In sport, skill, health, participation, teamwork and camaraderie are stressed as more important over the American value of winning at all costs. The view that there are only winners and losers is one founded on a premise that there can only be rich or poor or placing a bet on black or red on the roulette wheel. However, is the future of this or any other nation, a simple red or black bet? Is this what we want in our banks, insurance, and Wall Street firms that are gambling away our money in the house-run casino of mortgage and asset backed securities, credit default swaps, and other derivatives in an ever escalating Ponzi scheme? What happens when they crap out and people get wise to the fraud promulgated on all of us, borrowers, shareholders, investors, depositors, and public citizens alike?” c. “Doctors and scientists save lives and improve human existence. Nurses care and heal us. Teachers teach and “care for” our young. Young men and women, go to foreign deserts to protect our lives. But, who does our nation reward? The banker or Wall Street wizard who manipulates digits on a computer screen using sophisticated statistical models that can attribute and place the risk of the bet, on our pension, mutual, insurance, and trust funds?” d. “I have seen this first hand in my fight for ten years against predatory lending and corporate abuse on Wall Street where a few handful of greedy men and a few women have earned millions and even hundreds of millions
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