Banking Law

Rick Martin at Housing Wire is a man after my own heart. Like me, he's tired of all of us looking for scapegoats to sacrifice and always finding that someone else is the goat. Like me, he's got nothing but disdain for "what millions of other un- or under-educated Americans around the country are doing and blame it all on the government." Or on another group of "others." On anyone but themsleves.

However, he sees a bright side to all the angst and anger.

On the other hand, maybe it wouldn?t be so bad if Americans got mad. I mean really fired up about the sorry state of affairs they see around them. Maybe some of them would get so angry that they actually crack a book and learn something. Or write one and put forward a real solution. That?s a future I?d like to see. Americans getting better educated on what makes our system work so they can stand up intelligently and work for solutions instead of just huddling up with their friends on Facebook and chanting, ?Burn it down!?

But then, I?m not in the business of selling ideas that would only work for someone who believed in the concept of personal responsibility, not when there are reportedly only 545 people in the prospect universe. I think I?d rather be a mortgage broker, or an appraiser even.

Rick, no matter what my situation, I'd NEVER rather be a mortgage broker.

Then again, what do I know? According to a recent e-mail from a satisfied reader, not a damn thing. Here's one from the mail bag to give you an idea of the high esteem in which I'm held and the thoughtful dissent that I'm offered on a regular basis (redacted to protect the refined):

Your blog is so full of s**t it's coming out of your a**. So when you burn in hell over it maybe you will get it. If you have to ask get what you are clueless and part of the real problem with America.

Sifting through the garbled syntax, I must conclude that it is not only anatomically correct but axiomatic that s**t comes out of your a**, so I'm not certain how that allegation is insulting to this blog in terms of the level of s**t that might be issuing forth from it at any given moment. Nevertheless, it's clear that many people who read blogs also look longingly for "the real problem with America" and think that they've found part of it right here. As one of my business partners marveled,"You have to wonder how people like that go through life. They are the kind of folks that are on the edge of going 'postal' at any time."

Bank Lawyer's Blog: Where going postal is the national pastime.