plumsauce - 6:42 am on Aug 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

And, with the changes that took place in Bankruptcy laws last year (I'm guessing they saw the writing on the wall too), we're going to have a lot of people here in California carrying a Monkey (Gorilla) around on their back.

I take it that this realistically, only applies to individuals since corporations just die an early death.

Isn't this just so special.

Big business shoots itself in the foot with a cannon in the name of profits/market share and then gets a law passed to ease the pain.

When are people going to realise that governments exist to protect the interests of those with the most influence?

Case in point, copyright infringement, ... is a civil matter, unless you are the RIAA, in which case you can get all kinds of law enforcement officials to help out.

Think back to the great depression. Picture cops cracking heads with batons to break up general strikes. They never get it. They are cracking heads of people who are more like them than not, to protect people who are the least like them.

Oh, Canada has adjustable rate mortgages, and below prime rate mortgages too. They just don't call them sub-prime. Ask your friendly banker.