# "The second leg of the credit crunch"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-leg-of-the-credit-crunch/556938>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 12, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-leg-of-the-credit-crunch/556938 "2010-10-12T23:46:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-leg-of-the-credit-crunch/556938/41 "2010-10-15T21:45:24Z")

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> [@gonzomax](#):
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> The bankers announced that the system can not survive if a bunch of people get their homes for free because the bankers can not prove they own the house. The problem can not be with the big shot financial pros. It has to be the little people who might catch a break. These people keep thinking they have rights and contracts that matter. But that stuff is not important like the wealthy bankers getting full money for the messes they made. They are big important people after all.

Well the bank assets belong to a lot of little people (pensions that pay out to little people, stock owned by little people, and deposits by some little people) so I would prefer to see jail time for anyone even tangentially involved in this stuff. Perhaps we can get them to help all the other convicts get their GEDs.

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-leg-of-the-credit-crunch/556938/42 "2010-10-15T21:50:05Z")

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> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#):
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> Well the bank assets belong to a lot of little people (pensions that pay out to little people, stock owned by little people, and deposits by some little people) so I would prefer to see jail time for anyone even tangentially involved in this stuff.

Truly. Fine, we can’t let the banks collapse because their survival is necessary to the economy; but the continued employment of the people in charge is not necessary. If we can’t let market feedback discourage such behavior then that seems like a situation where the law should step in to provide its own brand of negative feedback.

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