ACORN discussion - can we move this into one thread?

[kg_veteran]

Originally Posted by Mavdog

ugh, I'll have to go read all those malkin columns....

Yeah, especially if you're going to attribute something to her that I don't think she said.

it comes back to the question: are you asserting that making loans to lower income and minority borrowers equals lowered credit standards.

No, I'm asserting that ACORN pressured lenders into lowering credit standards. And I've backed it up with proof. You've yet to produce anything to refute what I've said.

acorn's goal was to increase the availability of loans to these borrowers, not the loosening of standards by the lenders.

Actually, I've demonstrated that their goal in threatening regulatory complaints was exactly that -- to have the lenders lower their credit standards.