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VIDEO OF ANDREW CUOMO STARTING THE HOUSING MELT DOWN!
Hot Air ^ | 10/12/2008 | HotAir

Posted on 10/16/2010 2:57:25 AM PDT by Mr. K

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To: Mr. K

Cuomo wins in landslide!

-Headline Nov 3


101 posted on 10/16/2010 8:48:03 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: AndyJackson
And yes, everyone was in on the take. The FANNIE and FREDIE execs, real estate brokers, property developers, construction company owners, property flippers, appraisers, your local government that adds taxes and fees to the transaction. "Everyone" was in on the game, probably the biggest Ponzi scheme ever foisted on human kind. And, the game is still going on because idiots like you don't understand the game and the fact that you are one of the marks

The one thing you don't mention is the govt. pushing subpar loans. I was the mortgage officer of a community bank for over 20 yrs and I saw how this all went down. All of a sudden the Feds decided we needed a CRA officer under the employ of our bank. I was monitored once monthly to see how many minorities I was lending to. I failed miserably in that due to the following reasons:

Our community only had a small percentage of minorties of Spanish or Black makeup

Credit scores of the ones that did apply were dismal, had they been white I would of turned them down at the first meeting

Income levels at first glance were enough to decline them......

So don't put the blame strictly on the banks who were subject to large fines and in my case even the fear of losing my job. This whole fiasco can be placed at the foot of the Dems with their CRA and affordable lending programs. It never had anything to do with discrimination ,it had to do with qualifications. We were doing just fine being prudent in our lending until the govt. stepped in

102 posted on 10/17/2010 5:34:11 AM PDT by estrogen (2012 can't come soon enough)
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To: Mr. K
"You are 100% correct- but it was Cuomo who sued them and won the biggest settlement ever for $2.1 bilion (a lot of money at the time) and sent the signal to the rest of them...

This, while at the same time FANNIE and FREDDIE moved to guarantee them against loss -- you had a double whammy.

Banks knew they were bad loans but they were forced to do it under threat of lawsuit. And they were guaranteed not to lose money, so.. whammo. Housing price rose and rose while they loaned and loaned, and everyone pocketed money all around -- especially the thieves Harold Raimes and AIG and Goldman Sachs."

Good post, bro.

103 posted on 10/17/2010 9:52:18 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (/)
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To: hoosiermama; neverdem

neverdem holds the NY ping list


104 posted on 10/17/2010 10:21:27 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom; neverdem

Thanks metmom (how are you feeling?)
Neverdem, will you make sure the freepers in NY see this thread?


105 posted on 10/17/2010 3:58:46 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: hoosiermama

I’m feeling fine, but nothing has changed as far as eating.

If I behave myself with food, I’m OK.


106 posted on 10/17/2010 4:33:26 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: StAnDeliver

thanks- I was called an idiot for trying to explain this before


107 posted on 10/17/2010 6:35:23 PM PDT by Mr. K (Job #1 of next Congress- DEFUND THE LEFT (#2 repeal obamacare))
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To: metmom

hope you feel better too


108 posted on 10/17/2010 6:37:58 PM PDT by Mr. K (Job #1 of next Congress- DEFUND THE LEFT (#2 repeal obamacare))
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To: Mr. K

Thanks. Did you see this about a movie that’s out?

It’s come out just in time for the elections.

http://www.iwantyourmoney.net/about/


109 posted on 10/17/2010 7:17:22 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: triumphant values
They want them ignorant and flailing at strawman targets so they can keep the fleecing going. This time the problem is structural and not cyclical though and no amount of "animal spirits" boosterism is going to mask the rot and and keep it going.

I am glad that not everyone here is so willfully ignorant as a couple of my would be interlocutors.

110 posted on 10/17/2010 10:14:35 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: estrogen
The one thing you don't mention is the govt. pushing subpar loans....don't put the blame strictly on the banks who were subject to large fines and in my case even the fear of losing my job. This whole fiasco can be placed at the foot of the Dems with their CRA and affordable lending programs

The democrats did everything that folks here have said they did, and more. But that is only part of the story. It also took the fed pushing liquidity to make the funds available to do this. It took compromised RINOs to pass TARP to try to make everyone whole at taxpayer expense. Unfortunately, the whole fiasco cannot be placed at the feet of just the Dems, but rather at the feet of all the willing participants, including the wives of my submarine buddies who became real estate agents in the late 1970s and suggested that housing had nowhere to go but up.

It was the world's greatest ponzi scheme ever, a towering house of cards promising untold wealth and happiness to many of us, but at the expense at all of us. Some got rich and will stay rich. Overall, it is the most massive fraudulently invented scheme for malinvestment foisted on human kind, and we are all the poorer for it.

111 posted on 10/18/2010 9:46:49 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: metmom
All these threads need...

MORE COWBELL!


112 posted on 10/18/2010 11:59:33 AM PDT by Mr. K (Job #1 of next Congress- DEFUND THE LEFT (#2 repeal obamacare))
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To: Tzimisce
and more cowbell for you!!


113 posted on 10/18/2010 12:00:09 PM PDT by Mr. K (Job #1 of next Congress- DEFUND THE LEFT (#2 repeal obamacare))
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To: metmom; The Mayor

This CAN NOT be repeated too many times


114 posted on 10/27/2010 12:53:28 PM PDT by Mr. K (All our candidates suck! The media SAYS SO!!)
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To: StAnDeliver

That was excellent information
Keep this bumped


115 posted on 10/29/2010 11:21:59 AM PDT by Mr. K (All our candidates suck! The media SAYS SO!!)
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To: Shannon; amom; metmom; DJ MacWoW; The Mayor; Lauren BaRecall

please email this to all your friends!! this video has to go viral this weekend

The media has completely ignored his role in the housing melt down

Barney Frank and Chris Dodd may have set up FANNIE and FREDDIE laws to enable the housing meltdown, but Andrew Cuomo LIT THE FUSE by bringing the biggest lawsuit in history against the first bank.


116 posted on 10/29/2010 11:24:50 AM PDT by Mr. K (All our candidates suck! The media SAYS SO!!)
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To: Mr. K

I sent this out. Thanks!


117 posted on 10/29/2010 7:37:19 PM PDT by amom
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