How Social Justice Crashed the Economy

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Ever since FDR’s New Deal initiative, Democrats have gathered electoral support through the distribution of federal program dollars.  They justify their spending by saying it is done to pursue “social justice” and “fairness.”  The great political value of these concepts is that they are open-ended; they do not imply, nor do they allow, any limits.

 

While Republicans have struggled to convince voters that open-ended federal spending will eventually hurt working Americans and the poor, the mortgage crash of 2008 may provide such an opportunity.  This is because the mortgage changes promoted by the standards of social justice and fairness had a clear beginning, middle, and implosive end.

 

The social justice rationale was expressed in the 1992 Boston Federal Reserve paper Mortgage lending in Boston, which concluded that racial discrimination alone was responsible for the low number of mortgage approvals granted to black and Hispanic home loan applicants.  The report recommended: “lenders, community groups, and regulators must work together to ensure that minorities are treated fairly.”i

 

But the Boston Federal Reserve did not recommend specific financial guidelines that should be used to qualify borrowers; no method of measuring fairness was suggested.  Previously, banks required mortgage applicants to meet the traditional loan qualification standards known as the three Cs: credit, collateral, and capacity.

 

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