Toddsterpatriot
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LOLOLLOLOLOLSaying that caused the housing market to crash?Of course he, and Republicans, caused it...Are you under the impression that Bush caused the housing market crash? You fucking tard!![]()
”Thanks to our policies, home ownership in America is at an all time high!” ~ George Bush, 2004 Republican National Convention![]()
Thanks for conceding so easily without refuting a word.
Republican policies gave us the housing boom — which led to a bust. On policies like:
BUSH MINORITY HOMEOWNERSHIP PLAN RESTS HEAVILY ON FANNIE AND FREDDIE
When President Bush announced his Minority Homeownership plans last week in Atlanta, his top priorities were new federal programs: a $2.4 billion tax credit to facilitate home purchases by lower-income first-time buyers, and a $200 million national down payment grant fund.
But none of the new federal programs--if passed by Congress--will come even close to achieving the 5.5 million-household increase in minority home ownership the President set as his target.
Instead, most of the heavy lifting was assigned to two mortgage market players that have sometimes come under fire from Bush administration officials and Congressional Republicans: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Fannie's and Freddie's commitments are the bedrock core of the President's ambitious plans--but didn't get the headlines. Fannie Mae agreed to increase its already substantial lending efforts to minority families by targeting another $260 billion of mortgage purchases to them during the next nine years. Freddie Mac agreed to buy an additional $180 billion in minority-household home loans during the same period.
When President Bush announced his Minority Homeownership plans last week in Atlanta, his top priorities were new federal programs: a $2.4 billion tax credit to facilitate home purchases by lower-income first-time buyers, and a $200 million national down payment grant fund.
In 2002, the household sector held $14.2 trillion in real estate with mortgages of about $6 trillion.
Next to that, $2.6 billion in tax credits and down payment grants is like a fart in a hurricane.
Stupidity, to be sure, but barely noticeable.
Now, $440 billion in additional (over and above the $1 trillion plus worth of crappy mortgages they already held) crappy mortgage purchases is some serious money.
Bush looked at Clinton's stupidity and took it up a notch.
Clinton’s policies didn’t create the housing boom Bush and Republicans did.
”Thanks to our policies, home ownership in America is at an all time high!” ~ George Bush, 2004 Republican National Convention
Clinton’s policies didn’t create the housing boom
Of course not.
What percentage of Fannie and Freddie's mortgage purchases did the Clinton administration require to be subprime mortgages?
Was it 5%?
25%?
Or was it 50%?