Many of the people we're talking about were dumb enough to buy $500k+ homes on "stated income loans", when they had little or no actual income to speak of. Whi

Many of the people we're talking about were dumb enough to buy $500k+ homes on "stated income loans", when they had little or no actual income to speak of. While I do think the people who were offering those loans should have been punished both financially and criminally, I don't think the people who were foolish enough to use them to buy homes they couldn't afford should have been rewarded.