Since corporations are people, it stands to reason that houses are people too, and hence eligible to run for president, right? (Just...just go with it, okay?) At least one set of Occupy activists thinks this isn't such a bad idea, and they've started a Facebook group for that very purpose: ...

So let me get this straight. First, the banks make loads of bad mortgages. Then, the government bails them out. Fannie and Freddie end up with tons of foreclosures on their books, and now those banks that started the mess get to cash-in on Fannie and Freddie’s need to dump ...

We face a dangerous new kind of economic uncertainty—uncertainty in the rule of law. After settling with the banks, the government wants the system to snap back into the old rules, with everyone acting as if widespread institutionalized theft never happened. It doesn’t work that way. What assurance do we have that the rules won’t be rewritten again, when more blind forgiveness is needed for us to "look forward, not back"?