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Millions of people are facing homelessness because of a crooked system enacted by the major banks and Wall Street firms. Michael Moore – An Open Letter To President Obama

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Big banks did all kinds of awful stuff during the real estate boom. Among the worst of the worst was robo-signing

Typically, in a judicial foreclosure state, the lender proves the requisite facts by submitting documents and a written statement signed under oath (called an affidavit) by a person (usually a bank employee) who has reviewed the documents and who is supposed to have some personal basis for believing the facts to be true. The idea is to prevent foreclosures on homes where the foreclosing bank cannot prove that it actually owns the mortgage (which is more common than you might think) or where the homeowner is not actually in default to the degree asserted in the foreclosure papers.
It came to light that several large banks routinely used affidavits signed by employees who did not personally review the documents and had no basis for believing that the homeowner was in default or that the bank owned the loan

Employees for financial giants like Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and GMAC have all testified that they signed many thousands of affidavits a month, spending about 30 seconds on each affidavit, and that they didn’t have a clue regarding the veracity of the affidavit or the documents in question – hence the name “robo-signers”

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Big banks did all kinds of awful stuff during the real estate boom.  Among the worst of the worst was [robo-signing](http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/false-affidavits-foreclosures-what-robo-34185.html)

>  Typically, in a judicial foreclosure state, the lender proves the requisite facts by submitting documents and a written statement signed under oath (called an affidavit) by a person (usually a bank employee) who has reviewed the documents and who is supposed to have some personal basis for believing the facts to be true. The idea is to prevent foreclosures on homes where the foreclosing bank cannot prove that it actually owns the mortgage (which is more common than you might think) or where the homeowner is not actually in default to the degree asserted in the foreclosure papers.
It came to light that several large banks routinely used affidavits signed by employees who did not personally review the documents and had no basis for believing that the homeowner was in default or that the bank owned the loan

>  Employees for financial giants like Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and GMAC have all testified that they signed many thousands of affidavits a month, spending about 30 seconds on each affidavit, and that they didn't have a clue regarding the veracity of the affidavit or the documents in question -- hence the name "robo-signers"

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("You talkin' to me?") Michael Moore – An Open Letter To President Obama

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQkpes3dgzg

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I give you my all
But it seems like that's not enough
Lettin' you get more of me
So while the world keep on changin'
The one thing remainin'
Is I keep lettin' you get more of me Joe Budden (Ft. Emanny) – More of Me

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“More of Me” is a sequel of sorts to Joe’s 2007 track “All of Me”. The hook of that tune, which shares a melody with this one, and was also sung by Emanny:

I give you my all, but it seems like that’s not enough
Now you can get all of me
A lot of things have changed from what I see
Is this the way its supossed to be

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I turned a brick into a clothing line, a Boost commercial
And they still talkin' yola, so who's commercial? Jeezy – By the Way

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He started out slangin but look where he’s at now. He started his own clothing line, 8732 clothing and was featured in this Boost Mobile commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnvYBtZNowU

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This party started right in sixty-six
With a pro-Black radical mix Public Enemy – Party for Your Right to Fight

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The “party” in this song is the Black Panther Party, which started in 1966. Chuck made this explicit in a 1988 interview with Melody Maker (provided courtesy of the Adler Archives]:

This [song] talks about the destruction of the Black Panther party by the U.S. Government. It’s the party for your right to fight

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When Black Friday comes
I'll fly down to Muswellbrook Steely Dan – Black Friday

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Contrary to the song’s pronunciation here, most locals call the place “muscle brook”

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Muswellbrook is a town located in New South Wales. Donald Fagen states: “It was the place most far away from LA we could think of … and, of course it fitted the metre of the song and rhymed with book”.

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When Black Friday comes
I'll stand down by the door
And catch the grey men when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor Steely Dan – Black Friday

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While this song is not literally about the original Black Friday – the scandalous collapse of the price of gold in 1869 – it uses the term colloquially to mean a similarly catastrophic financial collapse

Such a collapse would likely have financial professionals jumping out of windows, just as they supposedly did during the stock market crash of 1929, thus the language about men “div[ing] from the fourteenth floor”

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Note that the fourteenth floor of most buildings is really the 13th floor. Building developers often omitted it for superstitious reasons that the narrator plays off in the lyrics. Here the narrator is saying that men are easily fooled to think they’re lucky and out of danger. It is said that 85% of high rise buildings lack a 13th floor.

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Black Friday Steely Dan – Black Friday

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“Becker and Fagen’s tale is of a crooked speculator who makes his fortune and absconds to Australia with the proceeds to live in the lap of luxury and seek forgiveness for his sins…. They chose Muswellbrook, a town in New South Wales, Australia, for the lyrics of the tune. ‘It was the place most far away from LA we could think of,’ explained Fagen… and, of course, it fitted the metre of the song and rhymed with ‘book.’”