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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kathtoo who wrote (60039)	2/25/2009 11:13:42 AM
From: SGJ	8 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

So you didn't read about the part about derivatives? Trillions of dollars of derivatives, weapons of financial mass destruction! What exactly do you know about derivatives? Honestly? You are caught up and stressed out about something you obviously know little about. The majority of the large number that has you hyperventilating are nominal values. When you get to an understanding of what that means, you are going to be able to relax and stop posting outlandish remarks on here. You and the other Democrats/leftists on the doomsdayer message boards are totally ignorant of finance and economics and are driving yourselves more batty than usual due to all this misunderstanding and ignorance.

To: kathtoo who wrote (60039)	2/25/2009 11:52:34 AM
From: lorne	7 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

kathtoo..and maybe this will be of interest to you when trying to fix blame. Obama, ACORN and the Community Reinvestment Act, or CRA last updated 10/19/08 boards.msn.com 09/20/08 03:28 AM Investors.com Points To Obama and ACORN as Part of the Problem From Investors.com “They (Democrats) were the ones who screamed — “REDLINING!” — and sent banks scurrying for cover in low-income neighborhoods, where they have been forced to lower long-held industry standards for judging creditworthiness to make the subprime loans. If they don’t comply, they are threatened with stiff penalties under the Community Reinvestment Act, or CRA, a law that forces banks to make home loans to people with poor credit risks. The revisions also allowed for the first time the securitization of CRA-regulated loans containing subprime mortgages. The changes came as radical “housing rights” groups led by ACORN lobbied for such loans. ACORN at the time was represented by a young public-interest lawyer in Chicago by the name of Barack Obama. HUD, in turn, pressured Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase more subprime mortgages, and Fannie and Freddie, in turn, donated to the campaigns of leading Democrats like Barney Frank and Pelosi who throttled investigations into fraud at the agencies.” The regulation grew to monstrous proportions during the Clinton administration, obsessed as it was with multiculturalism. Amendments to the CRA in the mid-1990s dramatically raised the amount of home loans to otherwise unqualified low-income borrowers.