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Subject: Economic Collapse - from San Francisco Chronicle - WORTH WHILE TO READ
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:10:30 +0000

Most of the liberals and Democrats will try to deny the facts in the
article below - but I challenge you to write down the "names" and keep a
scorecard when the FBI starts to make indictments or if McCain is
elected, his AG. If Obama is elected - maybe even the FBI will be
chased out of town on this one. As the article states Obama (nor his AG)
certainly won't do anything about the crooks in Congress (including
Republicans).

Oh - one more thing - go check out for yourselves how much stock Nancy
Pelosi ($2.5 million) and a number of other prominent democrats had in
AIG and you will understand why AIG was BAILED OUT. (The largest amount
held was by a republica n - $11.0 mil). I guess they didn't have enough
stock in Lehman Brothers to bail them out. It was not any secret in the
insurance industry that AIG has been in trouble for years.

> *For those interested in what really is causing our economic
> crisis this is a great article published by the **San
> Francisco** Chronicle, an extremely liberal newspaper in the most
> liberal town in our nation. They had it in them to publish this
> within 40 days of the election. The article is factually accurate
> and worth the read………..*
>
> **
> *'The average American listening to all the news of bank failures,
> and Fann ie Mae and Freddie Mac (who?) being taken over by the
> government, and now a“bail-out” of large, privately owned and well
> known companies, is at first bewildered, and then angry. The
> average American should be furious.*
>
> *But whom should Americans be furious? That seems to be the big
> question as political finger s are pointing in every direction.
> Was it greedy CEO’s with their “golden parachutes?” Was it the
> Democrats? Was it the Republicans? Was it Wall Street? (Who,
> exactly IS “Wall Street?”) The simple answer is that it is all of
> the above.
>
> Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Jr., and Federal Reserve
> Chairman Ben S. Bernanke were on Capital Hill taking a verbal
> beating from some of the very people who should not be asking the
> questions, but answering them and answering those questions under
> oath.*
>
> *Senator Chris Dodd, (D-Co nn.) and Congressman Barney Frank,
> (D-Mass.) are the first two who should be grilled, not by fellow
> politicians, but by an independent and hopefully very clever,
> angry, and mean attorney hired by the American people. No one from
> the present Justice Department need apply. Both should be asked
> how much money they have taken from lobbyists hired by the CEO’s
> of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Since that is public record, they
> should then be asked what Fannie and Freddie got in return for
> that money.
>
> Barney Frank should be questioned about his House Bill, H.R. 3838,
> that is clearly designed to keep Fannie and Freddie afloat as long
> as possible despite all the signs that there was serious trouble
> ahead. But all his bill did was make the hole bigger in the side
> of the Titanic. Basically all H. R. 3838 did was: “To temporarily
> increase the portfolio caps appli cable to Freddie Mac and Fannie
> Mae, to provide the necessary financing to curb foreclosures by
> facilitating the refinancing of at-risk subprime borrowers into
> safe, affordable loans, and for other purposes.”
>
> Barney Frank and his counterpart in the Senate, Chuck Schumer,
> (D-N.Y.) did everything they could to delay and cover-up the
> outright fraud and book-cooking that was going on within Freddie
> and Fannie. As far back as 2003, Freddie and Fannie were $9
> billion dollars in debt because of bad loans that continued to be
> accepted on a daily basis. Pressure from liberals in Congress to
> continue giving out bad loans was relentless and for years it
> continued with CEO’s, who happen to be friends of Dodd, Frank,
> Schumer, and Clinton, leaving with millions in their bank
> accounts as the companies they ran went under.
>
> The truth is that this financial disaster for the American
> taxpayer didn’t begin under George Bush, or Bill Clinton, or
> George Herbert Walker Bush, or Ron ald Reagan. It started under
> Jimmy Carter. It started with the passing of The Community
> Reinvestment Act in 1977.*
>
> ** *Basically, this act pushed local community banks and lenders,
> to “bend” the rules a little and give loans to low-income
> families. Like many liberal schemes, it seemed like a good idea
> at the time. There was a provision that protected the nervous
> lender in the clause that stated that loans should be given “in a
> safe and sound manner.” This gave the bank some leeway and choice
> in the loans that were given out. Under Bill Clinton, The
> Community Reinvestment Act was revised. Basically, the revision
> started to put pressure on lenders to take more financial risks.
> It was felt that lenders were not being “fair” to minor ities and
> the poor who only wanted to share in the American dream of owning
> their own home. Janet Reno began to outwardly threaten banks and
> mortgage lenders with prosecution if home loans were not approved
> for those who wanted to purchase homes that, in truth, they could
> not afford.*
>
> *Fearing federal retribution, loans started being approved for
> people who had no down-payment, no jobs, no collateral, and
> absolutely no hope of ever being able to meet any mortgage payment
> after the grace period of low interest ran out. Then, the greed
> took over. Banks would “bundle” up loans, good and bad, and sell
> them to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, making all their money up
> front for loans they knew would default eventually. As these loans
> did default, in larger and larger numbers, even Fannie and Freddie
> could no longer stand up under the hemorrhage of money loss. Wall
> Street panicked and so did the federal government.
>
> Were there warning signs that a disaster was looming? Of course,
> there were. But there was money to be made and politicians and
> CEO’s alike were not about to give up the gravy train of money
> being crammed in their pockets. The CEO’s of Freddie and Fannie
> would hire lobbyists to slip money into the pockets of Senator
> Chris Dodd, (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate banking committee, who
> was supposed to be overseeing the banking industry, to the tune o
> f $133,900 since 1989. Barack Obama was number two at the trough
> with over $120,000 which was no small feat since he has only been
> in the Senate for three years. Dodd and Obama were closely
> followed by the last Democratic nominee, John Kerry, (D-Mass.) and
> then Senator Hillary Clinton, (D-N.Y.)
>
> What were these lobbyists buying for the milli ons they sprinkled
> around the Senate and House of Representatives? They were buying a
> blind eye. They were buying little or no oversight into the
> juggernaut that has finally crashed on the heads of the American
> taxpayer. CEO’s got rich, politicians got rich and they got votes,
> being able to tell minorities and the poor, “See what we are doing
> for you?” For years, the red flags were stuffed under the desk and
> ignored.
>
> Early in his administration, George Bush sounded an alarm over the
> small amount of working capital Fannie and Freddie had on hand. He
> urged them to sell more shares to increase their reserve in
> funding and put them on more stable ground. He urged them to be
> more selective in the loans they bought. This suggestion was
> declined because the current stockholders would not make as much
> profit.
>
> Franklin Raines, the Fannie Ma e CEO from 1999 to 2004, decided to
> retire early, taking millions with him, under a cloud of
> accusations that he had cooked the books to make it appear the
> company was making20money instead of going head-long into debt.
> Another player in this financial kabuki dance is Jamie Gorelick.
> That name should ring a bell with every American. She seems to
> surface right at the heart of every American disaster in the last
> 15 years. Ms. Gorelick was vice-chair of Fannie Mae from 1997 to
> 2003. Like all the others, she left with millions in her pocket
> while declaring that Fannie Mae “is among the handful of
> top-quality institutions.'
>
> The next year it was found that Fannie was $9 billion dollars in
> the red. Oddly, this $9 billion had been overlooked in the books
> Ms. Gorelick and Mr. Raines kept.
>
> Let’s put Mr. Raines and Ms. Gorelick on the stand. The Ameri can
> people deserve to hear how much they gave lobbyists to pass on to
> their friends in Congress to keep the blinders on. That number is
> a staggering $16.2 million dollars since 1997. That amount bought
> very large blinders. And, it bought time. It bought time for the
> likes of Raines and Gorelick to make their millions and bow out
> before the bottom fell out.
> *
>
> *Republican nominee John McCain raised the alarm two years ago but
> his plan for more oversight was killed in the Democrat-controlled
> committee. Over 20-year span, McCain took $20,000 but this did not
> stop him from voicin g his concerns.The problem was that Democrats
> didn’t want to hear about it.
>
> President Bush’s warnings were also ignored. Should Bush have done
> more? Yes. Unfortunately, Bush was distracted by the 9/11 attack
> and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. So now, nearly ever y hour
> Americans watch as a pompous Chris Dodd or Barney Frank struts to
> a microphone to declare the “failed economic policies of the Bush
> administration are responsible for this mess.”
>
> No, Senator, he is not. YOU and your greedy friends are
> responsible. It took three decades to reach the point of no return
> and some were there with their hands out nearly all of those years.
>
> The Federal Bureau of Investigation is launching a full
> investigation into all of this. This investigation will abruptly
> end should Barack Obama win in November. The last thing Democrats
> want is the American people learning how complicit so many of them
> are in the illegal practice at Fannie and Freddie that led to the
> taxpayers bearing the brunt of the their unbridled greed.
>
> While politicians want oversight over the “bail-out,” there has
> been little outcry for a n investigation into how all of this evolved.
>
> It’s time for Americans to go to their windows and throw them open
> and yell, “We are mad as hell and we aren’t going to take it
> anymore!”
>
> Then, in November, vote the lot of them out of office.'
>