Las Vegas, the get-rich quick capital of America, is its capital of despair. Each of those red dots isn't a $1,000 chip but a dwelling that has been foreclosed. So, as the bankers and their associated cronies squeal in delight at their bonuses, these people are paying the price. Granted, some may have lost their houses through a feckless lifestyle, but many of these people have lost their houses as the direct result of lax mortgage regulations or deliberate misselling. That stoked the the bizarre rating systems that allowed toxic mortgages to be passed through some sort purgatorial cleansing and to become AAA, praise the lord. Rolling on-and-on until finally the house of cards collapsed hitting at the real economy of shops and factories; no job, no house.
