I'm not posting this one to start a debate and won't engage. I **am** here to post my personal opinion.

My tendency when I hear about a foreclosure is to sympathize with the people being evicted, not with the ones doing the evicting.

There's plenty of blame to go around and lots of room for recriminations. No one is blameless.

But it is a matter of degrees.

Some say that the home buyers who went for the stated income, high balance, subprime loans were the greedy ones, looking to make a fast buck.

Some of them, indeed, were greedy.

Some would say that the banks and mortgage companies, brokers, realtors, settlement companies, and all the other parasites and hangers on were to blame, luring starry eyed innocents into the netherworld of high finance and fast money.

Not every last one of them deserve the scorn they get.

But let's keep something in mind. For every poor son of a bitch - even the greedy ones - who wanted to buy into the housing game, there were a few score to thousands of people on the other side trying to get a chunk of that chump's change. And every one of them is a true expert in their niche.

That's hardly a fair fight.

Every case is different. And some people getting foreclosed are hardly victims.

But many of them are.

I am a person who cares about people. My first instinct in almost every case is to side with the little guy before I side with the impersonal corporate 'persons'.

I'm not so stupid as to think every little guy caught up in this is a victim nor that every company involved is predatory.

But when we consider numbers and degrees, I'll start out, at least, on the side of the little guy.

If you don't agree with me, that's your problem.

But you can still feel free to call me if you need some help some time.

Yeah, I'm a fucking bleeding heart fucking liberal.

So what?