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WaPo: The Mortgage Industry Has Been Nationalized
Wapo via Rush ^ | Zachary A. Goldfarb and Dina ElBoghdady

Posted on 09/17/2009 2:42:13 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing

RUSH: Let me go back to the Washington Post, because on Monday the 7th, the Washington Post published an article that very few people talked about and was little noticed, about changes in the mortgage market since Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were taken over a year ago. According to the Washington Post -- this is a quote -- "Only one lender of consequence remains [in the mortgage market]: the federal government..." The mortgage industry has been nationalized. "[N]early 90 percent of all new home loans are funded or guaranteed by [YOU!] taxpayers... The government has the power to decide who is qualified for a loan and who is not.

"As a result," writes the Washington Post, "many borrowers among both poor and rich are frozen out of the market," because it's now up to your government and some bureaucrat behind the counter or at a desk to determine whether or not you're gonna get a loan to buy a house. In addition to freezing people out of the market, including those who can afford a mortgage, the government has put "taxpayers... on the hook for most of the loans that are still being made if they go bad." Think subprime all over again. So the government has got 90% of the mortgage market cornered. If they make bad loans to "risky" people and the loans are defaulted on, you, me, we cover it. What, Snerdley? I know they are already did that. It's like called the subprime crisis. Now it's being formalized! We think we're getting reform of all of that that went wrong. We are getting affirmation and growth of what is wrong!

"There is growing evidence that many loans being guaranteed by the government have a significant risk of defaulting. Delinquencies are spiking." Quote, Washington Post! In addition, "the Federal Housing Administration ... is quickly eating through its [supposed] financial cushion" to cover bad loans. Thus far, in under a year, the federal government spent over a trillion dollars taking over the mortgage sector. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are $5 trillion in hock. So we've got universal mortgage care now with single-payer public option mortgages run by the government. Single-payer, public option government. You want a mortgage? You're either going to get it from the federal government or it's going to be guaranteed by the federal government.

In less than a year, the federal government has squeezed out all competition in the mortgage business, they have rationed services, and they're running in the red at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Now, the House of Representatives is voting on taking over the student loan program. All of it. In six months. There will no longer be private loans for the student loan program. Which means whatever interest rate they say is what you pay. There's nowhere else for you to go. No competition in the private loan market for student loans. Zip, zero, nada. This is all happening pretty much under the radar while we're focused on all these distracting things, like race -- half the country being racist -- and all this other stuff. So the Obama agenda is marching on. They have the automobile companies. They've got banking. They got a lot of Wall Street. Some of those Wall Street banks want out. Obama says, "Nope. Not yet." They are going to nationalize energy with cap, trade, and tax. What else? I mean, the list is endless. They are attacking prosperity and the private sector. People are angry, and they would be even angrier if they were really aware what all is happening.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: agenda; barackobama; barneyfrank; bho44; biggovernment; chrisdodd; corruption; crime; democrats; economy; fannie; freddie; mcge; nationalized; obama; socialism
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Of course, Rush was much more honest than the drive bys at the complicit progressive paper were, so I quoted him instead.

Mortgage Market Bound by Major U.S. Role

That's the article in question.

1 posted on 09/17/2009 2:42:14 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Home Lending: Nationalized.

Student Loans: Nationalized.

Banking: Nationalized.

Autos: Nationalized.

Healthcare: Nationalizing.

What’s next: Grocery Stores?


2 posted on 09/17/2009 2:45:41 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (NEXT: Sting ACORN on Voter Registration.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Death panels for your mortgages!
3 posted on 09/17/2009 2:47:43 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (MSM bias is dead. They are no longer "biased", they are complicit. The complicit progressive media)
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To: Uncle Miltie

No, not grocery stores, per se. But farmers that grow the food are next. Like the ones that are being run out of business by the fed gov cause they can’t get any water for their crops due to a frickin bait fish. You guessed it...the commie bastards at the EPA.


4 posted on 09/17/2009 2:48:37 PM PDT by XenaLee (t)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Actually, the ny slimes has recently been pushing for just that:

How Government Will Control Our Diet

They want food nationalized next. Sick SOBs.

It's never enough.

5 posted on 09/17/2009 2:49:55 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (MSM bias is dead. They are no longer "biased", they are complicit. The complicit progressive media)
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To: XenaLee

See the link at post 5.

The NY Times wants just that. Big food is next.


6 posted on 09/17/2009 2:51:19 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (MSM bias is dead. They are no longer "biased", they are complicit. The complicit progressive media)
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To: XenaLee
But farmers that grow the food are next

Just like in Zimbabwe, that worked out really well.

7 posted on 09/17/2009 2:52:14 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Selah.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

And didn’t I just read somewhere here today that they are increasing the number of mortgages for low income....again...


8 posted on 09/17/2009 2:52:17 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (Sarah Palin - Supports a "path to citizenship" for illegal aliens. "path to citizenship" IS AMNESTY)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Yep! They’re determined to make us all vegetarians!


9 posted on 09/17/2009 2:52:54 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (Sarah Palin - Supports a "path to citizenship" for illegal aliens. "path to citizenship" IS AMNESTY)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
"Only one lender of consequence remains [in the mortgage market]: the federal government..." The mortgage industry has been nationalized. "[N]early 90 percent of all new home loans are funded or guaranteed by [YOU!] taxpayers... The government has the power to decide who is qualified for a loan and who is not. As a result," writes the Washington Post, "many borrowers among both poor and rich are frozen out of the market," because it's now up to your government and some bureaucrat behind the counter or at a desk to determine whether or not you're gonna get a loan to buy a house.

10 posted on 09/17/2009 2:54:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

In my business, I have seen just one piece of residential mortgage lending in the last ten months that did not have an FHA guarantee: my own.

Every other jacket that’s crossed my desk has been backstopped by Uncle Sugar.

And Uncle Sugar is backstopped by YOU.


11 posted on 09/17/2009 2:56:07 PM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Thanks!

I know a lady that is trying to buy some acreage and wants to buy cattle. My mom told me she thinks the woman has lost her mind. I informed my mom that the lady in particular is one smart cookie and that if I had the money, I’d be doing the same thing. Only, I’d make sure the property had it’s own water and I’d raise chickens and other farm animals, as well.

This is where we’re headed. The Zeros want complete and utter control over every aspect of our lives. If they control our food supply, they have us by the short hairs, finally. I suppose the identity chip will be next. And then the attack on Israel by Zero & his Muslime buds. Biblical prophecy is playing out right before our eyes....at warp speed.

Personally? I’m hoping that we don’t let them get that far. I’m hoping that we stand up and fight back. But I’m fearing that we won’t. At least, not in time to save us.


12 posted on 09/17/2009 2:58:34 PM PDT by XenaLee (t)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
It's stunning that the US Government now owns or controls 30% of the private sector. And they are just getting started! Welcome to the USSA.

Per Michelle Bachmann on 9/14:

So now the Federal Government owns or controls 30 percent of all private business profits. And if President Obama gets his way and takes over another 18 percent of our economy in health care, that means the Federal Government will own or control 48 percent of private business profits.

Just think, a year ago 100 percent of private business profits were private. Today we're looking at the specter of 48 percent of private business profits owned or controlled by the Federal Government.

13 posted on 09/17/2009 2:59:38 PM PDT by kara2008 (The Answer to 1984 is 1776)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Let’s not forget energy control for businesses and individuals = cap and trade.

And wasn’t a food/farming regulation passed in July?


14 posted on 09/17/2009 3:00:08 PM PDT by Yooper4Life (They all lie.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

“The mortgage industry has been nationalized. “[N]early 90 percent of all new home loans are funded or guaranteed by [YOU!] taxpayers... The government has the power to decide who is qualified for a loan and who is not”

Why is this considered “new”? Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, VA, and USDA rural home loans have been the status quo for mortgage lending since the Savings and Loans crashed in the 80’s.

The “The government has power to decide who is qualified for a loan and who is not” is Rush hyping.


15 posted on 09/17/2009 3:00:49 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

This is feeling very uncomfortable. Add the media to that list of nationaliz-ING. Shall we have a predetermined place where we all meet up?


16 posted on 09/17/2009 3:04:51 PM PDT by Anima Mundi
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Sustainable Development—the “Why” behind Everything that is destroying America

See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341640/posts


17 posted on 09/17/2009 3:06:11 PM PDT by Yooper4Life (They all lie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

REPOST:
To: LS
I’m going to mention something no one else seems to be adding into any of this. I don’t hear it on any of the market/business shows, don’t read it anywhere in any form.
Everyone continues to talk about “toxic” assets. But no one mentions the fact that far from being toxic, these are real property assets worth untold billions.
*Update-TRILLIONS

PROPERTY is what is being used as collateral to entice China, the Emirates, (Dubai in particular,) Saudi Arabia, Japan, et al, to carry our debt. They want you to believe that they hold worthless pieces of unpaid paper, but it isn’t true.

Real Property and the natural resources the government has usurped illegally/unconstitutionally, is the new gold standard. We default, they move in. They own us. Our oil, coal, natural gas, high rises, ranch houses, businesses, name it.

All the defaulted housing mortgages are real property that they no one pays taxes on, so the cities and towns where houses and small businesses sit vacant die slowly and painfully.

There are other things and other ways they are stealing property and resources. But make no mistake, that is where the wealth is, and we are on the losing end of that stick.

THAT is what they have done to this country, and no one talks about it.

You can lose your mind trying to figure out the numbers on this. They don’t want you to know where the real wealth is. The money isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. It’s smoke and mirrors and it will get much worse before it gets better.

People who have had mortgages that are nearly paid off will start to default soon as more and more people lose their jobs. When that happens, it will make this past year look like a walk in the park.

Someone asked me what to do to protect themselves from the coming hit. I told them to buy seeds, a cow, some chickens and lots of ammunition.

32 posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 8:15:25 PM by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1.)


18 posted on 09/17/2009 3:10:54 PM PDT by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to secure or obtain their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them.” TJ


19 posted on 09/17/2009 3:11:10 PM PDT by stockpirate (Joe Wilson Truth Czar for a Free Republic!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

[Home Lending: Nationalized.

Student Loans: Nationalized.

Banking: Nationalized.

Autos: Nationalized.

Healthcare: Nationalizing.

What’s next: Grocery Stores?]

OBAMA-SMART Centers— ONE-STOP nutrition and resource allocation outlets.


20 posted on 09/17/2009 3:11:22 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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