http://openmarket.disqus.com/enSat, 23 Aug 2008 07:57:49 -0000http://www.openmarket.org/2008/08/20/federal-regulations-helped-spawn-mortgage-crisis/#comment-2125852The economic affirmative action policy put in place during the Clinton administration forced banks to issue "low income (bad) loans." Wealth redistribution was the aim of this liberal policy since wealth would flow from the middle to lower class when the inevitable bailout came due. This has made the middle class poorer and the lower class richer. <br><br>The poor are not poor by accident. They either refuse to be educated, refuse to work hard, or have not been in the country long enough to build wealth. As always, anti-merit liberals favor instant gratification and social engineering by big government.thackneySat, 23 Aug 2008 07:57:49 -0000http://www.openmarket.org/2008/08/20/federal-regulations-helped-spawn-mortgage-crisis/#comment-2125848How could this be? Laws did not help the free market? Low-income borrower = someone who could not save for a down payment. This also is someone who is unlikely to make all of his mortgage payments in the future.DreadnaughtWed, 20 Aug 2008 12:36:18 -0000