U.S. Housing Is Now WORSE Than Great Depression (Thanks Barry Hussein!)

Here’s Obama’s constant and constantly false narrative.  Things are bad, but Barry Hussein has made then better.

I mean, thank God we don’t have that miserable 7.6% unemployment Bush left office with; due to Obama’s messianic leadership, unemployment has improved to 9.1%.

Unemployment with Obama’s “stimulus” boondoggle is actually HIGHER than the Obama White House said it would be WITHOUT the stimulus – and on top of the fact that his stimulus actually HURT employment, we still have to pay back that $3.27 TRILLION in debt that Obama saddled America with.

Obama constantly boasted about the “shovel-ready jobs” he created.  He is a liar by his own acknowledgment now.  The other day he heard someone bitterly complain about all the terrible regulations he created and how they stopped any meaningful recovery dead in its tracks [note: remember how Democrats deceitfully blamed all the problems on Republicans’ DEREGULATING], and Obama responded with a joke, dismissively saying, “Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.”

That’s RIGHT, you lying weasel!!!  And Republicans were only telling you this three years ago while you lied and lied and then lied some more every single day.

But that aint nothin’ compared to the havoc Obama has wreaked with his “wreckovery.”

Just yesterday I explained at length how Democrats and Obama were FAR MORE RESPONSIBLE for our housing crisis than Bush or the Republicans.

In brief, it was DEMOCRATS who created Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  It was DEMOCRATS who forced banks to make risky loans under the guise of opening up home ownership to those who could not qualify for traditional (i.e. safe and sane) mortgages.  It was DEMOCRATS who pushed Fannie and Freddie into the incredible risky subprime loan market.  It was DEMOCRATS who were at the very epicenter of subprime loans to even BEGIN WITH.  It was DEMOCRATS who allowed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to bundle huge blocks of these subprime loans together such that investors had no possible means of knowing how safe these mortgage backed securities (that ONLY Fannie and Freddie could sell) were and how much bad debt was in them.  It was DEMOCRATS who fiercely resisted all Republican efforts to reform Fannie and Freddie.  It was DEMOCRATS who falsely assured the American people that Fannie and Freddie were safe while Republicans correctly predicted these massive behemoths would lead us into a disaster.  It was DEMOCRATS who turned Fannie and Freddie into such a massive behemoth that it controlled more than half of the entire mortgage industry (to big to fail alert).  It was DEMOCRATS at the helm of Fannie and Freddie who doctored financial reports and benefited personally to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in bogus bonuses and fees.  And it was DEMOCRATS like Barack Obama who received more campaign money in a shorter period of time from Fannie and Freddie (not to mention corrupt crony capitalist private firms like Lehman Bros.) than ANYONE.  And ALL the top scumbags who benefitted personally from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac money were ALL DEMOCRATS.

Fannie and Freddie went down – just like Republicans said would happen and just like Democrats promised us would NOT happen – and then the very people who created the mess and benefited from the mess turned around and demonized the people who tried to prevent the mess.

It was DEMOCRATS who created the housing crisis.  And it is under DEMOCRAT leadership that this crisis is so bad that it is even WORSE than the Great Depression:

US Housing Crisis Is Now Worse Than Great Depression
Published: Tuesday, 14 Jun 2011 | 12:04 PM ET
By: Jeff Cox
CNBC.com Staff Writer

It’s official: The housing crisis that began in 2006 and has recently entered a double dip is now worse than the Great Depression.

Prices have fallen some 33 percent since the market began its collapse, greater than the 31 percent fall that began in the late 1920s and culminated in the early 1930s, according to Case-Shiller data.

The news comes as the Federal Reserve considers whether the economy has regained enough strength to stand on its own and as unemployment remains at a still-elevated 9.1 percent, throwing into question whether the recovery is real.

“The sharp fall in house prices in the first quarter provided further confirmation that this housing crash has been larger and faster than the one during the Great Depression,” Paul Dales, senior economist at Capital Economics in Toronto, wrote in research for clients.

According to Case-Shiller, which provides the most closely followed housing industry data, prices dropped 1.9 percent in the first quarter, a move that the firm interpreted as a clear double dip in prices.

Moreover, Dales said prices likely have not completed their downturn.

“The only comfort is that the latest monthly data show that towards the end of the first quarter prices started to fall at a more modest rate,” he said. “Nonetheless, prices are likely to fall by a further 3 percent this year, resulting in a 5 percent drop over the year as a whole.”

Prices continue to tumble despite affordability, which by most conventional metrics is near historic highs.

The rate for a 30-year conventional mortgage is around 4.5 percent, just above the historic low of 4.2 percent in October 2010. The ratio measuring mortgage costs to renting is 7 percent below its norm, while the price-to-income ratio is 23 percent below its average, Dale said.

Yet other factors are constraining the market.

After the fallout from the subprime debacle, in which millions lost their homes when they defaulted on loans they could not afford, banks changed underwriting standards.

More than four in every five mortgages now require a down payment of 20 percent, and credit history standards have tightened. At the same time, foreclosures continue at a brisk pace, pushing more supply onto the market and pressuring prices downward.

Then there is the issue of underwater homeowners—those who owe more than their house is worth—representing another 23 percent of homeowners who cannot leave or are in danger of mortgage default.

Indeed, the foreclosure problem is unlikely to get any better with 4.5 million households either three payments late or in foreclosure proceedings. The historical average is 1 million, according to Dales’ research.

The only bright spot Dales found, aside from the slowing in price drop in March, was some isolated strength in states such as Nevada, Michigan, South Dakota, Alaska and Iowa.

The thing that was nearly COMPLETELY created by Democrats in the first place is now worse than at ANY time in the Bush administration, and in fact so bad under Obama’s watch that it is actually worse than it was even in the Great Depression.

But Obama has made it better.

You have got to be absolutely demonic to believe that.

Obama has failed.  He has utterly and completely failed.  He is the embodiement of God damn America, and God will continue to damn America until this wicked fool is removed from the White House.

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