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Sociologists: Liberal Policy Didn't Cause the Mortgage Crisis, Racism Did
American Thinker ^ | 10/10/10 | By Monte Kuligowski

Posted on 10/10/2010 7:51:00 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

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1 posted on 10/10/2010 7:51:02 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

BULLSHIT!

Alice Rivlin and her fellow CLINTON Administration minions built the Mortage House that has collapsed.
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Alice Rivlin Espertise per the Brookings Istitution:
Protecting consumers from predatory lenders need not be complicated. Back when we did housing finance right, long-term fixed rate loans with moderate down payments financed high rates of home ownership. Secondary markets spread risk and brought capital into the housing market. Government agencies could give low-cost guarantees, because most Americans paid on time.


2 posted on 10/10/2010 7:55:47 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: COUNTrecount

These alleged “sociologists” have either missed the mark completely or missed that liberal policies are geared towards minorities and are racist in nature.... =.=


3 posted on 10/10/2010 7:56:15 AM PDT by cranked
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To: COUNTrecount

...the black mortgage defaults in my area were NOT in black neighborhoods...hell, blacks themselves don’t want to live there...they want to live in the suburbs with Whitey.


4 posted on 10/10/2010 7:56:32 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: COUNTrecount

Why read a an overlong piece when the title itself exposes the blind liberal slant of the writer? Of course liberal policies brought about the crisis. The banks were forced into making loans to those not capable of paying them. Hell,even Barney Frank admitted as much recently.
A failed attempt at rewriting recent history.


5 posted on 10/10/2010 7:56:39 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: cranked

More like Socialistologists.


6 posted on 10/10/2010 7:57:23 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (counter revolutionary)
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To: COUNTrecount; Liz; sickoflibs; FromLori
The federal government therefore had to intervene. The Clinton administration revived and enforced the Act in the1990s with vengeance; and with a little help from groups like ACORN, minority loan approvals reached all time highs.

Application of the Act was done in the name of the right to "affordable housing." Affordable housing really meant that everyone has a right to get a mortgage on a home. At the threat of ACORN members getting crazy in bank lobbies and with the coercion of federal law, traditional qualifications for getting loan approvals (verifiable income levels, sufficient down payments, standard credit histories, etc.) were thrown out the window.

Finally - someone has written truth about the "why" of the housing crisis...

7 posted on 10/10/2010 7:59:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liberal violence against Tea Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFeUhSlHiUQ)
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To: COUNTrecount
Racism indeed, but as usual, the Commies have held up a mirror on themselves.

Democrats effectively forced banks to throw out benchmark financial standards, all in the politically correct interest of providing “home ownership to those who can't otherwise afford it”. This disproportionately included “people of color”.

Racism was openly stated in the Annual Reports of Fannie Mae, whose “CEO” Franklin Raines, should be in ankle shackles, breaking rocks in the sun somewhere.

8 posted on 10/10/2010 7:59:17 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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This is precisely backwards. Anti-racism led to the mortgage crisis. In order to increase the minority rate of home ownership, standards were lowered, downpayments became a thing of the past with even 120% loans available and documentation requirements were dropped almost altogether for a number of years.

Might this have caused problems? Nah, of course not, it’s because we’re racist, according to the loons.


9 posted on 10/10/2010 8:00:48 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: COUNTrecount
...written by a graduate student at Princeton and his professor...

One barely know where to begin with the total dishonesty of this "research." These must be quite the pair of winners. They are so 100% deceitful that they must be applying for jobs with the Obama Regime.

10 posted on 10/10/2010 8:01:07 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Character is defined by how we treat those who society says have no value.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Sociologists: Keeping the destructive statistics of socialism for over a Century.

Junk science = Sociology.


11 posted on 10/10/2010 8:01:07 AM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
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To: EyeGuy

Sociologists nearly always overlook the obvious.

Then there were two sociologists walking down a dirt road when they cam upon a man beaten up and bleeding, head down, in a ditch.

“This is awful,” said one sociologist to the other.

“Right,” said the other sociologist. “We’ve got to find whoever did this and help him.”


12 posted on 10/10/2010 8:03:48 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: COUNTrecount
Great piece - lays it all out so everyone sees the big picture. Amazing act of dishonesty on the part of the our supposed "intellectuals" in academic institutions and the liberals in Washington DC.

Of course these people would consider blacks stupid, they also believe the entire U.S. electorate will believe this garbage without questioning it because that's exactly what happened - pick up a local paper and read the letters to the editors - your liberal neighbors have swallowed the "blame capitalism for mortgage crisis" lie hook, line, and sinker.

13 posted on 10/10/2010 8:04:19 AM PDT by PLK
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To: Marty62

I for one, am sick of this constant slant meant to “show” tat minorities of liberal choosing, the victim of the week, have ANY sort of monopoly on poverty. They do not, and never have had.


14 posted on 10/10/2010 8:06:39 AM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: COUNTrecount

http://sociology.princeton.edu/images/portraits/Massey.jpg
Douglas Massey

http://www.princeton.edu/main/images/news/2010/10/Masseyrugh_jake%5B3%5D%5B1%5D_225.jpg
Jacob Rugh

http://tinyurl.com/37uy7vq

Woodrow Wilson School Ph.D. candidate Jacob Rugh and Woodrow Wilson School’s Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Douglas Massey, assessed segregation and the American foreclosure crisis. The authors argue that residential segregation created a unique niche of minority clients who were differentially marketed risky subprime loans that were in great demand for use in mortgage-backed securities


15 posted on 10/10/2010 8:07:14 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: COUNTrecount
Liberal Policy Didn't Cause the Mortgage Crisis, Racism Did

IDIOTS!

Liberal policy IS racism.

16 posted on 10/10/2010 8:07:58 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate: Republicans freed the slaves Month.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Unless they are afraid of being called racist......break out the numbers of forclosures according to race. If you can’t start there, you will never get to the problem. What you do with the information is another story. It all boils down to the dollar sign. Either you have the money to buy or you don’t. Ignore this and you will fail.


17 posted on 10/10/2010 8:08:36 AM PDT by RC2
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To: COUNTrecount

Don’t give loans to minorities - Racist
Give loans to minorities - Racist

They’ll spin this whichever way the have to.


18 posted on 10/10/2010 8:09:37 AM PDT by ryan71 (Let's Roll!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Shows you what sociologists are good for.


19 posted on 10/10/2010 8:11:18 AM PDT by dr_who
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To: COUNTrecount

Liberals created and promoted programs and policies that allowed unqualified buyers to enter into contracts they couldn’t meet.
IF there is a racist element, it is the liberal’s policies which undermine minority self-sufficiency rather than enable it.


20 posted on 10/10/2010 8:13:11 AM PDT by G Larry
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