Fingerprinting
Another quick one, but one of the more important pieces of information I have come across in a while.
The bill to give aid to the 'victims' of the mortgage lenders currently winding its way through the house and senate has had a little something extra tagged on.
Yes, any good free thinking person who believes in individual culpability should recognize the lunacy of bailing out individuals bad loans.
But there is something more, and in my mind, something less protectionist but much more sinister.
Every mortgage borrower will be required to get fingerprinted by the government.
It started out that the lenders would need to do so, to protect individuals, keep lenders on file etc. The goverment already does this in a number of other areas (brokers licenses being one). But then, it was slipped in that every single borrower would be required to get fingerprinted. Every one.
Now, I have no idea how many individuals that covers. But it is not just a few.
Civil liberties indeed.
The bill to give aid to the 'victims' of the mortgage lenders currently winding its way through the house and senate has had a little something extra tagged on.
Yes, any good free thinking person who believes in individual culpability should recognize the lunacy of bailing out individuals bad loans.
But there is something more, and in my mind, something less protectionist but much more sinister.
Every mortgage borrower will be required to get fingerprinted by the government.
It started out that the lenders would need to do so, to protect individuals, keep lenders on file etc. The goverment already does this in a number of other areas (brokers licenses being one). But then, it was slipped in that every single borrower would be required to get fingerprinted. Every one.
Now, I have no idea how many individuals that covers. But it is not just a few.
Civil liberties indeed.
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