Richard Zombeck: Below the Fold: Credit Card Robo-Signers, Bogus Debt and Comcast Blocks a Site?

As Ira Metrick, a New Jersey consumer and foreclosure defense attorney puts it, "It's cheaper for the credit card companies to lose a few cases when they are questioned, compared to the expense of doing every case the right way."

Remember the bean counters and the Pinto? Why fix a whole line of exploding cars when only a few families are going to burn to death? It's cheaper to settle the law suits than it is to keep everyone safe. ''