I didn't cast my vote for McCain because, quite frankly, I thought he was an idiot. I was voting against Obama
without commenting on the specific issue, why is it that so few people get it that the truth is based on whether something is the truth, not on who says it? soooooo many people will hear something, then someone tell you all about the person who said it - pro or con it's the laziest kind of thinking there is
I wouldn't worry too much about this- I'd imaging the average bank balance of this group is probably about $125- a bunch of $107 withdrawls probably won't cripple the Fed. Should be good people watching, though- I'm planning on taking a case of beer and meeting a few college buddies in the lobby of my local bank for some giggles.
I didn't hear what he said so I have no comment. I doubt if you remember exactly what he said. You probably just heard what you wanted too.
<i>I wouldn't worry too much about this- I'd imaging the average bank balance of this group is probably about $125- a bunch of $107 withdrawls probably won't cripple the Fed. Should be good people watching, though- I'm planning on taking a case of beer and meeting a few college buddies in the lobby of my local bank for some giggles.</i> LOL - I'm sure you are right.
Obama's proposed top rate is 39.6%, bringing back up exactly where it was under Clinton. Hmm, I seem to recall that the wealthy got wealthier and businesses grew just fine during the Clinton years. This proves Kudlow wrong, and exposes his tirade to be nothing but propaganda and FUD to try to undermine Obama.
vhehn, other than maybe your political views, you've always struck me as a pretty smart guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxMInSfanqg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPSDnGMzIdo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nU3fNh-PRk While Bush and co certainly share the blame, the dems are AT LEAST as much to blame maybe more. If you had a problem with the spending of the last 8 years but are willing to accept the spending Osama and Pelosi are engaging in, you're being hypocritical. Especially considering that much of the current spending is pork and or liberal pet projects with little real benefit to the economy.
Here is a memory refresher for those who were too young to care back in 1999. Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending STEVEN A. HOLMES Published: September 30, 1999 In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring. Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits. In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called subprime borrowers. These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional loans, can only get loans from finance companies that charge much higher interest rates -- anywhere from three to four percentage points higher than conventional loans. ''Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990's by reducing down payment requirements,'' said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive officer. ''Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.'' Demographic information on these borrowers is sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the subprime market went to black borrowers, compared to 5 per cent of loans in the conventional loan market. In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's. ''From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,'' said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ''If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.'' Under Fannie Mae's pilot program, consumers who qualify can secure a mortgage with an interest rate one percentage point above that of a conventional, 30-year fixed rate mortgage of less than $240,000 -- a rate that currently averages about 7.76 per cent. If the borrower makes his or her monthly payments on time for two years, the one percentage point premium is dropped. Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, does not lend money directly to consumers. Instead, it purchases loans that banks make on what is called the secondary market. By expanding the type of loans that it will buy, Fannie Mae is hoping to spur banks to make more loans to people with less-than-stellar credit ratings. Fannie Mae officials stress that the new mortgages will be extended to all potential borrowers who can qualify for a mortgage. But they add that the move is intended in part to increase the number of minority and low income home owners who tend to have worse credit ratings than non-Hispanic whites. Home ownership has, in fact, exploded among minorities during the economic boom of the 1990's. The number of mortgages extended to Hispanic applicants jumped by 87.2 per cent from 1993 to 1998, according to Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies. During that same period the number of African Americans who got mortgages to buy a home increased by 71.9 per cent and the number of Asian Americans by 46.3 per cent. In contrast, the number of non-Hispanic whites who received loans for homes increased by 31.2 per cent. Despite these gains, home ownership rates for minorities continue to lag behind non-Hispanic whites, in part because blacks and Hispanics in particular tend to have on average worse credit ratings. In July, the Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed that by the year 2001, 50 percent of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's portfolio be made up of loans to low and moderate-income borrowers. Last year, 44 percent of the loans Fannie Mae purchased were from these groups. The change in policy also comes at the same time that HUD is investigating allegations of racial discrimination in the automated underwriting systems used by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to determine the credit-worthiness of credit applicants. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gl...revealed-true-cause-current-fannie-mae-crises