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To: Nicholas Thompson who wrote (30798)	12/29/2008 11:59:23 AM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Respond to of 71588

Both parties have been pushing home ownership for decades. and push all those no or low regulation policies to make that possible Overall, regulation, regulatory enforcement funding, and regulatory agency staffing levels, went decisively up under Bush, not down, and not even just up the amount that's typical in an eight year period, but much more than that. Even just in the financial sector, regulation increased while Bush was president (for example see Sarbanes-Oxley). And he pushed other regulatory efforts (such as those dealing with Fannie and Freddie) that failed. At most it could be argued that Bush failed to increase regulation in ways that some people where arguing for. Its not "deregulation", or "low levels of regulation", or in that many cases "not enforcing regulation".