Wikipedia says that, “Star Parker is an American syndicated columnist, Republican politician, author, and conservative political activist. In 1995, she founded the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), originally the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education. In 2010, she was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives in California’s 37th District.”
The manufactured home industry and its consumers are widely seen as having suffered since the enactment of the so-called Dodd-Frank reforms. While the Seattle Times and CFED were among those who have defended Dodd-Frank as it is currently being enforced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the industry’s lenders have all had to pay a price for this well-intended, but nevertheless harmful regulation.
U.S. Bank, several other smaller lenders, UMH Properties and others have been among those who were forced out of the lending arena, not because they weren’t successful. Rather, they say, it’s because the regulatory risks were too great for the relatively low volume of loans being done. See the interview and article, linked here.
As one of our sources in Washington, D.C. tells MHProNews, Dodd-Frank isn’t the only problematic issue that faces the industry. There is also to this point a failure by the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) to do a meaningful level of chattel or other lending on manufactured homes.
Nevertheless, Dodd-Frank has driven up costs, said Triad Financial Services President, Don Glisson, Jr. While they were able to adapt, consumers and businesses alike suffer from an otherwise depressed level of sales.
Against that backdrop are the thoughts of columnist and conservative pundit, Star Parker.
Parker on the Dodd-Frank “Swamp”
“…The 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Act was passed to fix what supposedly was broken in our financial system that led to the massive financial collapse in 2007,” says Parker, in a new column published on sites like GOPUSA and many others.
“The potential economic impact of the sweeping reforms of the Financial CHOICE Act are as far reaching as anything going on in Washington today. But you probably haven’t heard about it.
The press is filled with news about Russia, James Comey, Jeff Sessions. Yet hardly anything about this. Why?”
What Parker doesn’t mention is that there is no evidence for collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, as several Democrats and every intelligence service head has stated, on the record.
Instead, she points to an article on the Wall Street Journal, and then says, “Guess Who’s Defending Dodd-Frank? The answer is the nation’s biggest banks.”
She continues, “The full title of the Dodd-Frank law is The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The website of the Obama White House explained the law as “Holding Wall Street Accountable.”
“It attributed the crisis to the major financial institutions in New York,” states Parker.
“You would think those same institutions, the nation’s largest banks, would be unhappy about all the new regulations that they now have to live with.
But, as the Wall Street Journal points out, these same banks are defending Dodd-Frank and opposing the Republican reforms.
This is really about the “swamp” that this new Republican administration is supposedly now in Washington to drain.
The “swamp” is about Washington business “special interests” working with Washington political “special interests” to make law that makes them both happy.”
Parker points to another expert, and then tosses a thunder-bolt, “As American Enterprise Institute scholar Peter Wallison points out, the Dodd-Frank Act was not produced after a serious investigation about what really caused the crisis. It simply was an opportunity for Democrats to take advantage of the crisis for major expansion of government.
Given this reality, Wall Street gladly worked with Democrats to build a new regulatory structure that would provide them a nice, new feathered bed.”
She draws to a close saying, “Unfortunately, the small community banks, whose market share is now shrinking because of the Dodd-Frank regulations, have always been a major source of loans to small business. The arteries carrying capital to the grass roots of America have been clogged. According to Wallison, and other economists, this is a major reason why our economy is growing so slowly.
The House has done its work to fix this problem with the Financial CHOICE Act.
Now its [sic] up to the Senate, including the 11 Democrat senators up for re-election in states carried by Donald Trump in 2016, to step up and do the nation’s business and pass these critical reforms.” ##
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