Smoking Gun to Mortgage Crisis Found?

The smoking gun in the home mortgage crisis may just be a 20-page document from 1994 and contrary to the sentiment of the OWS crowd, the banking industry's fingerprints aren't on it; the Clinton administration's are. The left, OWS, and the Democratic Party apparatchiks would have everyone believe that the banks took advantage of people who couldn't afford mortgages, leaving those people holding the proverbial bag. In reality, and this document appears to prove it, banks were mandated - as all sensible people suspected - to issue mortgages to individuals who would never pay them back.

Via Investors Business Daily:

President Obama says the Occupy Wall Street protests show a "broad-based frustration" among Americans with the financial sector, which continues to kick against regulatory reforms three years after the financial crisis.

"You're seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on the abusive practices that got us into this in the first place," he complained earlier this month.

But what if government encouraged, even invented, those "abusive practices"?

Rewind to 1994. That year, the federal government declared war on an enemy — the racist lender — who officials claimed was to blame for differences in homeownership rate, and launched what would prove the costliest social crusade in U.S. history.

At President Clinton's direction, no fewer than 10 federal agencies issued a chilling ultimatum to banks and mortgage lenders to ease credit for lower-income minorities or face investigations for lending discrimination and suffer the related adverse publicity. They also were threatened with denial of access to the all-important secondary mortgage market and stiff fines, along with other penalties.

The piper is always paid and the Democratic Party appears to be doing all it can to make sure he doesn't come knocking on their door by placing the blame on the banking industry.

CLICK HERE for the 20-page memo, which mandated that banks grant mortgages without restrictions.

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