Sharpton Wants What’s In Your House
May 6, 2010 Political
Al Sharpton is part of the social justice regime and he will not be satisfied until everyone is brought (down) to the same level. To Al, we will not have social justice until we all have the same thing.
We Won’t Have True Social Justice Until Everything Is ‘Equal in Everybody’s House’ Breitbart (Video)
This is the mentality that caused the financial meltdown. Sharpton and his ilk led by progressives in Congress enacted rules that forced banks to lend money to people who could not afford to pay it back. The purpose of the loans was to allow low income folks to buy homes. I have no problem with anyone owning a home but they should own a home they can afford and if they can’t afford one, they should rent an apartment.
Fannie Mae was established during the New Deal era to help low income folks afford homes. Over the years it has grown and during Carter’s disastrous presidency the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was established and this forced banks to lend money to people who could not afford the loans. Clinton went a step further and relaxed the rules to allow even more people to buy homes.
People bought homes they could not afford and many figured they could sell them for a profit and then the housing bubble burst and house prices fell leaving many people underwater. They were in homes they owed more on than they could get and they could not afford to keep paying for them. Thus, a high rate of foreclosure.
Thanks to the idea that we will not be equal until things are equal in everyone’s house, we have a financial meltdown. I guess they made sure we all suffered equally.
This does not stop morons like Sharpton from continuing to play the race card and working to make us all equal. We are all created equal but we do not have equal success in life and nothing a government does will change that. There will always be wealthy people and there will always be poor people and there will always be a lot of people in the middle. The reality is not everyone will be able to buy a home.
Unless we relax the rules and make sure that everyone can get a loan even if they cannot pay it back. That sounds like something Sharpton would like and would work.
Oh wait…
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: Al Sharpton, CRA, equality, social justice
ACORN And CRA Flow DownHill (Plumbers Know This)
Oct 6, 2009 Political
Progressives, despite their deceptive name, want to look backwards, which is why, when you have a real question about one of their half- baked and failing policies, they love to point out former President Bush ( don’t they know he hasn’t been around for eight months?). So I guess it is in keeping with their character to go back to the past for ideas that didn’t work then, and rework them into ideas that won’t work now.
At least, in this aspect, they are consistent.
As we try to shake off the financial crisis, here’s a bright idea. Take a law that has led to the writing of an enormous amount of bad mortgages and expand it. Then take enforcement away from bank examiners and give it to housing activists.
Sound like a poisonous cocktail? Well, it is what the Obama administration and Democrats are currently stirring up onCapitol Hill.
The White House and Congress want to expand a 30-year-old law–the Community Reinvestment Act–that helped to fuel the mortgage meltdown. What the CRA does, in effect, is compel banks to seek the permission of community activists to get regulatory approval for bank expansions and mergers. Often this means striking a deal with activist groups such as ACORN or unions like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and agreeing to allocate credit to poor and minority areas that are underserved.
In short, the CRA encourages banks to make loans they would not ordinarily make. What’s more, these agreements often require that banks offer no-money-down mortgages and remove caps on how much debt a borrower can take on. All of this is done in the name of “financial democracy.”
Liberals pooh-pooh the idea that a 30-year-old law could have contributed to the current subprime crisis and credit crunch. But what they ignore is the massive expansion of CRA-commitments forced on banks in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis.
forbes.com
This is stupidity on a truly mind boggling scale. These are the people you want to represent you?
According to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, in the first 20 years of the act, up to 1997, commitments totaled approximately $200 billion. But from 1997 to 2007, commitments exploded to more than $4.2 trillion. (Keep in mind this is more than four times the size of the current health bill being debated in Congress.) The burdens on individual banks can be enormous. Washington Mutual, for example, pledged $1 trillion in mortgages to those with credit histories that “fall outside typical credit, income or debt constraints,” and was awarded the 2003 CRA Community Impact Award for its Community Access program. Four years later it was taken over by the Office of Thrift Supervision.
forbes.com
And some liberals still maintain that the CRA had nothing to do with the mortgage meltdown. Yeah, right- only if you hold your hands over your ears and yell, “La, La, La-” at the top of your lungs.
And then to compound the situation, ACORN, the “community organizing” group that used the CRA to crowbar favorable mortgages from reluctant banks, thus contributing to the mortgage meltdown find themselves under investigation. They were largely untouched by the myriad scandals because they had patronage in Congress, and indeed the WH. Now they have found that there are limits to what even they can get away with.
Let the investigations begin, and spare no one- scorched earth policy should apply here.
Louisiana’s attorney general has broadened the scope of an investigation of ACORN to include a possible embezzlement of $5 million a decade ago within the community organization, five times more than previously reported.
ACORN Chief Executive Officer Bertha Lewis said the new reported amount is “completely false.”
Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has been conducting an investigation of ACORN since June. He issued subpoenas in August seeking documents related to former ACORN International President Wade Rathke and his brother Dale Rathke, who kept the group’s books. Those subpoenas were focused on possible ACORN violations for non-payment of employee withholding taxes, obstructing justice and violating the Employee Retirement Security Act. No charges have been made.
The attorney general had inquired in June into an alleged embezzlement within ACORN that happened 10 years ago. The group last year dealt with an internal dispute and a lawsuit involving accusations that Dale Rathke made nearly $1 million in improper credit card charges in 1999 and 2000. The brother and a donor repaid the money.
nola.com/politics
Yes, New Orleans would be a great place to begin- after all, it is the home base of ACORN, and her sister agency (although you might think there could be the teeniest bit of “conflict of interest”) SEIU, the union that is as close to Nobama as the warts on his backside. This could get real ugly, because there are so many pols in Washington who are tangled in ACORN’S web, and a true and thorough investigation will flush them out like the roaches they are.
Caldwell said last month that the statute of limitations presented obstacles to prosecutors taking action on the embezzlement, and that his investigation was not focused on that issue. Thesubpoena issued Monday changed the tone of the investigation and put a new emphasis on the embezzlement issue.
“Current high-ranking members of ACORN have publicly acknowledged that embezzlement did in fact occur, but the exact amount of the embezzlement was unknown until it was recently acknowledged in a board of directors meeting on Oct. 17, 2008, by Bertha Lewis and Liz Wolf that an internal review had determined that the amount embezzled was $5 million, ” the new subpoena says.
The subpoena says, “It is still unclear if some of the monies embezzled are from state, federal or private funds.”
The subpoena requests documents from Citizens Consulting Inc., a financial arm of ACORN, and from various accounting and legal consultants in New Orleans. Investigators are trying to verify the issues raised in the subpoena.
“We’re going to follow the evidence where it leads us and try to do the right thing,” said David Caldwell, head of the attorney general’s public corruption and special prosecutions divisions. “We are actively investigating the case, whatever the outcome might be. This is something we are devoting our full attention to.”
Wade Rathke, who was in Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday, referred questions to ACORN officials. Lewis said she would comment further after she and ACORN attorneys had a chance to review the subpoena.
nola.com/politics
It’s convenient that Wade Rathke is in Thailand- taking a vacation in the land of underage prostitution? We may never know, but he is beyond reach of a subpoena at the moment. We need to grab Dale, his brother, and squeeze him dry in front of a Grand Jury- but would he lie? I think he would- which leads us back to Deep Throat’s famous words- “Follow the money.”
That may well be our best course- because the money trail will tell us the truth.
The other players, probably not so much.
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Tags: acorn, corruption, CRA, embezzlement, mortgage meltdown, SEIU