2008-02-22reuters.com

The Democratic-led U.S. Senate plans to begin debate next week on a home mortgage foreclosure-prevention bill that would let bankruptcy judges erase debt and that would provide billions of dollars to rehabilitate abandoned properties.

We know, we know -- this would drive up borrowing costs. But having housing debt as a special "privileged" form of debt that can't be dispatched in bankruptcy is an unusual situation. The same financial corporations that oppose reversing this provision have the privilege of the ability to renegotiate all of their debt should they enter bankruptcy. Shouldn't human beings have the same right?

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