The Looting Of The Mortgage Settlement Fund

Blogger Adam Levin writes in The Huffington Post:

• States are looting the Mortgage Settlement Fund, and the odds are good that you or someone you know is getting robbed -- for the second time.
  
  According to recent reports, politicians, not bankers, are the culprits this time around -- siphoning billions from that historic settlement and pumping it into their broken state budgets. Instead of "manning up" and changing their diet, they're taking a cue from ancient Rome: After a quick trip to the vomitorium, it's back to the banquet table. (Care for a mint?)
  
  Their willingness to play fast and loose with the settlement -- crawling through certain wiggle words in its language to circumvent the clear intent of its negotiators --- tells me they still haven't learned where "fast and loose" leads.

For more, see Back From the Vomitorium: The Looting of the Mortgage Settlement Agreement.