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Fannie Mae to Loosen Credit Requirements: Since It Worked So Well the First Time Let’s Do It Again!

Here we go again… once again this administration is returning to failed liberal policies repackaged as golden solutions in order to save you from a catastrophic Armageddon.

President Obama and Congressional Democrats have turned to using FEAR to scare the public into bad legislation, something this administration accuses the previous of doing and said it wouldn’t do, and has relegated itself to lying about the causes of both the housing crisis and subsequent credit and economic crisis. Blaming Bush is soooo 2007

Now we learn that Fannie Mae will loosen credit requirements for home mortgages. For What It’s Worth says “Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.”

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Fannie Mae will loosen credit requirements for home mortgages. No, that’s not from a five-year-old paper, that’s today’s Bloomberg news.

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Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance company under U.S. government control, will loosen rules for homeowners seeking to lower their loan payments by refinancing.Fannie Mae will drop some credit-score requirements, reduce income-documentation standards and waive the need for appraisals in some cases, according to a notice yesterday to lenders posted on the Washington-based company’s Web site. The changes apply to loans that the company owns or guarantees.

The company, which accounts for more than 40 percent of the $12 trillion in U.S. residential mortgage debt, is seeking to break a “logjam” in refinancing and allow more homeowners to take advantage of near-record low interest rates, according toBrian Faith, a Fannie Mae spokesman. The increased flexibility for consumers isn’t large enough to significantly harm mortgage- bond investors and mortgage insurers, analysts said.

I emphasized a part of the article I think is critical, having worked the better part of the last decade in the mortgage industry, I’m completely floored reading this, as income-documentation standards or what we call “stated income” is the leading cause of foreclosures. Lenders took undocumented income or “stated income” high risk loans because GSE’s (Freddy and Fannie) 1. told them to and said the government would guarantee them and 2. bought most of them. I’m sorry but a pool man and grocery clerk don’t make $15,000.00 a month!!!

Although the charge of racism was behind the last loosening of credit requirements and this time it seems to be to help us out of a jam the end results will be the same. All the GSE’s like Freddy and Fannie should have been scraped years ago. Allowing a private-government-hybrid company that guarantee’s loans is the reason we’re in the mess to start with and until we recognize and correct that we’re doomed to repeat this crisis over and over.

This video should be watched every time this issue comes up!

COMMENTS

  • http://www.RedState.com/ETCartman Kenny Solomon

    IN….. I want my gubmint cheese !

    After all, I won’t have to pay any of it back when everything comes tumbling down and the real fun begins.

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    The snark above brought to you by the letter D ……. as in Dunderheaded Damaging Demeaning Deleterious Destructive DOPES.

    The snark above also brought to you by The Second Dyslexic Amendment. Your right to arm bears shall not be fringed.

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    Maybe I’m simply a hate-monger, but if you, any bank and every credit agency knows you can’t pay back a loan, why would you take it in the first place. Better yet, why would any semi-competent lending authority give you one ?

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    I got REALLY angry when I heard about this re-do yesterday. But I didn’t post anything because I was watching The Bud Shootout and my boy popping a 2nd place finish (yeah, I know, Jamie should have won it).

    Of course today, I completely forgot about this little home-buying incentive and took my Mom to see my Dad at the nursing home. Came back and watched Daytona Qualifying (Good on ya Mark Martin !), went and grabbed dinner and now I’m here……

    But I’ve calmed considerably, so I’ll say my piece with only one word and I think that shall nicely cover all bases to our friends on The Left, the good folks at Fannie Mae and of course to those who would take loans from the next scheme to end all schemes……….

    Schmucks.

    Cheers !

  • Praying

    history from 80 years ago, and are trying the same tired solutions that did not work during the depression, but you would think they could at least remember the disastrous results of THIS policy from what, 5 years ago? Selective senility is no excuse for our elected officials. Have at it, guys. If there is any semblance of Democracy left by 2010, I think we will see a major change in the make-up of congress. Will our modern day Newt Gingrich please report for duty?

  • $peciallist

    it’s the Bomb…

  • bk

    “The company, which accounts for more than 40 percent of the $12 trillion in U.S. residential mortgage debt, is seeking to break a ?logjam? in refinancing and allow more homeowners to take advantage of near-record low interest rates, according toBrian Faith, a Fannie Mae spokesman.”

    If people will be going out and getting mortgages that they know they can’t afford based on the hope that Uncle Sam will bail them out, what do they care whether the interest rate is 4% or 5% or 10%?

    • $peciallist

      we are doomed…….wait……..Fight on!…..wait…….I don’t know anymore

    • itrytobenice

      We’ve got hiiiiigh hopes. We’ve got hiiiiigh hopes. High apple pie in the skyyyy hopes.

  • icbm

    - Samuel Beckett