...do right by the homeowners of New York, I imagine BofA could have used some of that $60MM to hire loss mitigation specialists to help them work through the mess. Wells was in the same situation, since a LOT of Wells Fargo's portfolio was in California, where MILLIONS of sub-prime ARM mortgages were made. So the banks are scrambling to comply with the laws, and the self-righteous government operatives are smugly looking for violations. This idiocy was ENTIRELY caused by BILL CLINTON and BARNEY FRANK!

Spoken like a true knee-jerk liberal who knows NOTHING about the situation. Interesting that it was B of A and Wells who were targeted by the NY attorney general. B of A was FORCED by the Feds to purchase Countrywide Mortgage. Countrywide was well known in the industry to play fast and loose with sub-prime lending, and had a HUGE portfolio of adjustable rate sub-prime loans that were about to explode (meaning, adjust up from their 5-year teaser rates) in 2008. I'm sure the mortgage servicing people at BofA were absolutely swamped trying to keep up with the c-r-a-p loans the FEDS forced on them. And while the NY attorney general might not think spending $60 MILLION taxpayer dollars is a lot of money to make sure the EVIL bankers (cont)

Interestingly, it was another young Senator - from Illinois, I believe - who came to Washington and was told by his "betters" (in the form of Harry Reid) that he could forget about getting any good committee appointments or having the chance to do anything that would win him headlines because he was the FNG (______ new guy) and he would have to put in his time, take his turn, and play the game in order to get ahead in DC. That young senator's reaction? "The heck with YOU, Harry! In that case, I'll just run for President!" That guy's name was Barack Obama. I hope to see Ted Cruz follow THAT example, not the one the DC, GOP and media establishment are dictating.

You've got THAT right. And we all know after eight years of Billary, that the Clintons will stop at nothing in their quest for power.

I live in very conservative Cobb County in GA. I have neighbors who moved here from California. All they do is complain about the conservatives in Cobb County, and talk about how wonderful things were in California. At a recent neighborhood get-together, one normally kind, friendly GA native had a few too many adult beverages and told these whining liberals to go the "heck" back to California, if things were so darn wonderful!

I live in very conservative Cobb County in GA. I have neighbors who moved here from California. All they do is complain about the conservatives in Cobb County, and talk about how wonderful things were in California. At a recent neighborhood get-together, one normally kind, friendly GA native had a few too many adult beverages and told these whining liberals to go the "heck" back to California, if things were so darn wonderful!

A CHILD of 15 cannot even bring her OWN aspirin to school - but she can stop by the drugstore on her way home and buy an abortion pill. I wonder if schools will ban the girls from having these in their purses, the way they ban Midol.

Initially health insurance was strictly for catastrophic medical expenses - it functioned the way insurance should function. You pay for your own doc visits for sniffles; insurance pays when you get cancer or break your leg. It was the UNIONS who wanted richer and richer employee benefits who started the system where the health insurance pays for everything. This takes health insurance OUT of the realm of INSURANCE and just turns it into a third-party-payer system, raising costs for everyone.

Your health insurance probably also covers maternity care for you, a 62-year-old man. And you are paying for it. I find it interesting that Obamacare mandates mammograms when the GOVERNMENT decided a couple of years ago that annual mammograms do NOT prevent breast cancer, and instead expose women to unnecessary radiation. The GOVERNMENT recommends them only for women who have a family history of breast cancer. Another example of one hand not knowing what the other hand is doing.

The AMA was also a BIG supporter of Obamacare. But the practicing DOCTORS I spoke to are not. My docs told me that the AMA is largely composed of ACADEMIC physicians, who get government grants for their research, so they just want to keep the taxpayer money flowing in their direction. Forget that Obamacare will put docs out of business and create scarcity in medical services.