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Barney Frank Fesses Up: Gov't Shares Blame For Financial Crisis
IBD ^ | 09/27/2013 | Paul Sperry

Posted on 09/27/2013 7:16:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 09/27/2013 7:17:34 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

In a startling admission, the architect of the biggest regulatory hit on Wall Street since the New Deal now agrees with critics that Washington deserves as much blame for the financial crisis as Wall Street.

Former Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, co-author of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, said in a recent forum on the crisis that the government

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barneyfrank; financialcrisis; mortgagecrisis
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1 posted on 09/27/2013 7:16:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Wasn’t it changes to the “Community Reinvestment Act” made under BillyBob (before he lost control of the House) that required lenders to give a mortgage to everyone with a pulse...or else? And IIRC Attorney Corporal Reno announced, more than once,that that went double for “the most vulnerable among us”.


2 posted on 09/27/2013 7:20:28 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Barney must be terminally ill or something. Of course he admitted during a Townhall meeting that Obamacare was merely a stepping stone toward the goal of Canadian-style single-payer (socialized) medicine — so he does sometimes have his unguarded moments.


3 posted on 09/27/2013 7:21:47 AM PDT by Tallguy (Hunkered down in Pennsylvania)
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To: SeekAndFind
Did he mention that his boyfriend was an executive at Fannie Mae while he was on the House Banking Committee, which had jurisdiction over it?
4 posted on 09/27/2013 7:26:53 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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To: Tallguy
Apparently he's on his way out and he's excersizing whatever he may have left of a conscience.

It would not surprize me to learn he's aware of God's chastening for being a faggot and an all around bad citizen/politician.

Barney was too good with words to NOT understand both sides of the argument ... he knows he's been wrong.


Now ... about that JFK file .................

5 posted on 09/27/2013 7:28:01 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Gay State Conservative

BINGO!


6 posted on 09/27/2013 7:29:45 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: SeekAndFind
2004 Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Congressional Hearings

Bawney Frank: Banking Queen

7 posted on 09/27/2013 7:30:07 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Frank and Dodd should be swinging from the 14th Street Bridge.

Their I said it nsa.

Black Suburbans at my house in 3, 2, 1 .....


8 posted on 09/27/2013 7:31:05 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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http://www.c-span.org/Events/Barney-Frank-Douglas-Holtz-Eakin-Look-Back-at-Financial-Crisis/10737441405-1/
Link to the video of the forum

Barney Frank, Douglas Holtz-Eakin Look Back at Financial Crisis


9 posted on 09/27/2013 7:35:22 AM PDT by libertarian27 (FreeRepublic Cookbooks 2011 & 2012 - Click Profile)
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To: Tallguy

Single-payer is the goal of these socialists. They’ve covered up long enough but now feel they can just spell it out and call it like it is. Obamacare will fail enough and lead us into socialized medicine. And the cost of that will decimate US military spending. Canada relies on US to keep its ass safe. They need no real military spending. So their money gets dumped into healthcare.

We are witnessing the demise of the greatest nation on earth. Thank you liberal/progressives.


10 posted on 09/27/2013 7:35:22 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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11 posted on 09/27/2013 7:40:57 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Tallguy

Barney should admit his own personal guilt.

He directed the mess.


12 posted on 09/27/2013 7:43:02 AM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: SeekAndFind

He means SINCE he left office. WHILE he was in office, congress as blameless.


13 posted on 09/27/2013 7:50:08 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sleight of hand. What it should say:

“Barney Frank Fesses Up: Barney Frank Shares Blame For Financial Crisis”


14 posted on 09/27/2013 7:50:55 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thanks for telling the truth Barney, but it’s 3 elections too late.


15 posted on 09/27/2013 7:52:12 AM PDT by skinndogNN
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But the former Boston lawmaker was quick to claim he wanted to build affordable "rental" housing for the poor, not encourage low-income Americans to buy homes, and bucked the government's homeownership drive.

"I've been critical of that," Frank insisted. "Homeownership is a good thing (but) it should not be the way that poor people build up equity."

It's nice to see he's still a self-absorbed, shameless, lying piece of human garbage. .

16 posted on 09/27/2013 7:54:53 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: SeekAndFind

DUH !


17 posted on 09/27/2013 7:56:30 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The fact that that sorry piece of excrement holds political office serves as a formal declaration that we no longer have a functional government.


18 posted on 09/27/2013 8:04:12 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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RE: The fact that that sorry piece of excrement holds political office

Barney Frank is thankfully, now retired.


19 posted on 09/27/2013 8:05:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

CMO — CDS — CDO. What could go wrong?


20 posted on 09/27/2013 8:24:49 AM PDT by Stentor ("Liberalism seeks out the eccentric to justify control over the normal." nathanbedford)
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