Can I just make claims about what you said, and then proclaim victory? Is this your idea of intelligent debate?
So Joe is admitting he hates babies. Leftist clearly would destroy the entire human race.
Thanks for playing. (notice how I can make up crap you didn't say, just like you did to me?)
Joe, if you'd like to debate like and adult, let me know. Otherwise, find something else to do with your time. You'll never convince anyone of anything debating like a ten year old.
Guy, your own confusing screed said the banks were the problem, not the government.
The banks kept writing loans to people who couldn't pay them back. That's what you admitted.
Not because the government made them, but because they figured they could make their money back on a foreclosure.
It's when they couldn't the whole system fell apart.
Sigh.........
If banks were the problem, then why didn't the crash happen in the past 60 years? If banks were the problem, why haven't we crashed again?
You do realize that there is not one single law, or regulation, that would prevent a bank from making a sub-prime loan again, right? And if "greed" (the universal left-wing catch all answer for every problem on the planet), is the problem, are you saying no bankers are greedy now? And why were they not greedy in the 60 years prior to the crash?
What happened? Did all the bankers get zipped by alien greed guns in 1997?
I'll say it again...... Sub-prime loans were legitimized by the Federal Government, through Freddie Mac in 1997, when they guaranteed sub-prime loans under the CRA law, in a deal with First Union (Wachovia), and Bear Stearns.
The moment that the Government gave their seal of approval on sub-prime loans, and gave them a AAA rating... they fundamentally changed the market.
Before that happened..... no bank sold sub-prime loans in Mortgage Backed Securities, and no sub-prime MBS had a AAA rating.
The Government changed the market. Before that happened, sub-prime was an extremely limited market.
Remember Government itself created Mortgage Backed Securities to begin with. Without government none of this could ever have happened.
To blame banks for regulations and policies that government pushed, is like posting a 80 mph speed limit on a sharp 90º turn, and then blaming the drivers for driving 80 mph on the turn and crashing. It's their fault for following the posted speed limit... they didn't have to.