{"id":188378,"date":"2010-10-11T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/11\/and-the-obama-administrations-response-to-the-widespread-foreclosure-fraud-by-the-banks-is\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T21:28:00","slug":"and-the-obama-administrations-response-to-the-widespread-foreclosure-fraud-by-the-banks-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/11\/and-the-obama-administrations-response-to-the-widespread-foreclosure-fraud-by-the-banks-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Obama Administration&#8217;s Response to the Widespread Foreclosure Fraud by the Banks Is\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To take the side of the big banks who are ignoring the law, with Obama proxy David Axelrod on <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Face the Nation<\/span> saying that he hopes that this, &#8220;moves rapidly and that this gets unwound very, very quickly,&#8221; meaning allowing the banks to continue breaking the law, while an &#8220;administration source is saying that, &#8220;the administration was also seeking the servicers&#8217; help with modifying  the home loans of millions of borrowers to help them avoid foreclosure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The translation here is that because the administration was <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/no-they-are-cruel-people.html\">perpetrating a fraud on homeowners on behalf of the banks with the HAMP<\/a>, they couldn&#8217;t be expected to pursue them when they broke the law.<\/p>\n<p>The most egregious quote is from Federal Housing Administration Commissioner David Stevens:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>We believe freezing foreclosures for all banks in all states, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">whether we have reason to believe them to be in error or not<\/span>, is simply not the prudent step to take in this fragile housing market<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>So, even if the banks broke the law, it is the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">victims<\/span> who have to pay for this, because the banks <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">own<\/span> Barack Hussein Obama.<\/p>\n<p>I would suggest that you read Yves Smith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2010\/10\/bank-disinformation-i-pr-machine-in-overdrive-on-foreclosure-fraud-front.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2010\/10\/bank-disinformation-ii-banks-attacking-rule-of-law-frontally.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2010\/10\/bank-disinformation-iii-obama-throws-weight-behind-banks-housing-market-over-borrowers.html\">here<\/a>.  She touches all the bases, and does it better than I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To take the side of the big banks who are ignoring the law, with Obama proxy David Axelrod on Face the Nation saying that he hopes that this, &#8220;moves rapidly and that this gets unwound very, very quickly,&#8221; meaning allowing the banks to continue breaking the law, while an &#8220;administration source is saying that, &#8220;the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,1088,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-real-estate","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}