From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Revenue That We'll MISS Out On, And NOT "Lose", Will Not Hurt Florida At All
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:53:57 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: NetKnow News
In article <MPG.4274522eb6b65e6d98bbfc@news.eternal-september.org>,
AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>On Thu,24 Apr 2025 07:11:19 -0500, -hh says...
>
>> > Democrat Bahney Fwank's $10 Trillion Crash
>> >
>> > That's right, shut-in.
>> >
>> > Fwank's Fingerprints Are All Over The Financial Fiasco
>> >
>> > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=boston.com+barney+frank+fingerprintsandia=web
>> >
>>
>> Oh, I'm familiar with what's been claimed as the root cause of the housing
>> bubble...
>
>Claimed?
>
>No... proven.
>
What does this have to do with Canadian Politics?
>=====
>
>This is for the psycho Rudy:
>
>Both "proved" and "proven" are acceptable past participles of the verb
>"prove", "proved" being more commonly used in BRITISH
>ENGLISH, while "proven" is often preferred in AMERICAN English.
>
>I'm an AMERICAN, you psycho cunt.
>
>=====
>
>> ... but that still doesn't mean that Obama signed that legislation.
>
>Signed WHAT "legislation"?
>
>I never said that. So, why did you say that?
>
>> Sober up, and try again.
>
>I would, if I drank.
>
>> Nor how the crash started in 2007-08, before he was even elected.
>
>BECAUSE of Bahney Fwank and the Democrats.
>
>> Sober up, and try again.
>
>I would, if I drank.
>
>> -homo habilis
>
>Yup.
>
>============================================================================
>
>Democrat Bahney Fwank's $10 Trillion Crash
>
>That's right, shut-in.
>
>Fwank's Fingerprints Are All Over The Financial Fiasco
>
>https://duckduckgo.com/?q=boston.com+barney+frank+fingerprints&ia=web
>
>************************************************
>
>Key Democrats opposed the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act
>of 2005, which would have established a single, independent regulatory
>body with jursdiction over Fannie and Freddie - a move that the
>Government Accountability Office had recommended in a 2004 report.
>
>************************************************
>
>Barney Frank And Democrat Party Most Responsible For 2008 Economic
>Collapse
>
>It's beyond asinine that Democrats blame Bush for ruining the economy, and
>praise Clinton as having the mostest wonderfulest economy ever, when it
>was a Clinton program that ruined the Bush economy. But that's the
>mainstream media narrative for you.
>
>************************************************
>
>'THE PRIVATE SECTOR got us into this mess. The government has to get us
>out of it."
>
>That's Barney Frank's story, and he's sticking to it. As the Massachusetts
>Democrat has explained it in recent days, the current financial crisis is
>the spawn of the free market run amok, with the political class guilty
>only of failing to rein the capitalists in.
>
>The Wall Street meltdown was caused by "bad decisions that were made by
>people in the private sector," Frank said; the country is in dire straits
>today "thanks to a conservative philosophy that says the market knows
>best." And that philosophy goes "back to Ronald Reagan, when at his
>inauguration he said, 'Government is not the answer to our problems;
>government is the problem.' "
>
>In fact, that isn't what Reagan said. His actual words were: "In this
>present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government
>is the problem." Were he president today, he would be saying much the same
>thing.
>
>Because while the mortgage crisis convulsing Wall Street has its share of
>private-sector culprits -- many of whom have been learning lately just how
>pitiless the private sector's discipline can be -- they weren't the ones
>who "got us into this mess." Barney Frank's talking points
>notwithstanding, mortgage lenders didn't wake up one fine day deciding to
>junk long-held standards of creditworthiness in order to make ill-advised
>loans to unqualified borrowers. It would be closer to the truth to say
>they woke up to find the government twisting their arms and demanding that
>they do so - or else.
>
>The roots of this crisis go back to the Carter administration. That was
>when government officials, egged on by left-wing activists, began accusing
>mortgage lenders of racism and "redlining" because urban blacks were being
>denied mortgages at a higher rate than suburban whites.
>
>************************************************
>
>Only people can who understand how politics and the economy work know
>this.
>
>Whose Fault was It?
>
>By far the most dangerous myth is that deregulation is the root cause of
>the problem.
>
>The culprit was a system geared toward loaning money to people who were
>not in a position to pay it back. Two policies underpinned that system:
>easy money by the Federal Reserve and the government-induced lowering of
>standards for approving loan requests.
>
>In a recent paper for the Independent Institute, University of Texas
>professor Stan Liebowitz argues that "in an attempt to increase
>homeownership... virtually every branch of the government undertook an
>attack on underwriting standards starting in the early 1990s... the
>Clinton era."
>
>Starting with the creation of the Federal Housing Administration in 1934
>and all the way to the norms that made Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae acquire
>substantial loans given to people with weak credit.
>
>Not surprisingly, once the Fed expanded credit, astronomical amounts of
>capital poured into a housing market that people assumed was protected by
>the government. What came next was a consequence of the original sin.
>
>Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, H.U.D., Bahney Fwank, Bill Clinton, Andrew Cuomo.
>
>Who is responsible for the crash?
>
>Democrats' lobbyist-induced denial to regulate Housing, led to Wall Street
>collapse:
>
>Barney Frank: I don't see anything in this report that raises safety
>and soundness problems.
>
>"These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing
>any kind of financial crisis," said Representative Barney Frank of
>Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services
>Committee.
>
>"The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there
>is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable
>housing."
>
>************************************************
>
>Anatomy of a bubble
>
>Step 1. The intoxication: "My house is worth millions!" From 1995 -
>2005, the number of sub-prime mortgages skyrocket. So did the house
>prices.
>
>Step 2. The hangover: "Oh my God, my house isn't selling. What went
>wrong?"
>
>WHY DIDN'T SOMEONE TRY TO STOP IT?
>
>Someone did:
>
>********* "The Bush administration today recommended the most
>significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since
>the savings and loan crisis a decade ago." - The New York Times,
>September 11, 2003. ***************
>
>But someone intervened to stymie the Bush administration. Who? The
>New York Times reports:
>
>Supporters of the companies said efforts to regulate the lenders
>tightly under those agencies might diminish their ability to finance loans
>for lower-income families. . . . "These two entities - Fannie Mae and
>Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis," said
>Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on
>the Financial Services Committee. "The more people exaggerate these
>problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we
>will see in terms of affordable housing."
>
>"The Bush administration today recommended the most significant
>regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings
>and loan crisis a decade ago."
>
>"Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new
>agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume
>supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored
>companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending
>industry."
>
>http://tinyurl.com/6lp5qu
>
>"McCain Letter Demanded 2006 Action on Fannie and Freddie"
>
>"Sen. John McCain's 2006 demand for regulatory action on Fannie Mae
>and Freddie Mac could have prevented current financial crisis, as HUMAN
>EVENTS learned."
>
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