They dont want to be designated but they also said the fact that they are closely supervised by the that is one of the most to the community. So the fact that they dont want to be close and supervised by the fed is simply the size alone and theres nothing they can do about it unless you want to break up fidelity. Thank you for asking. Okay, so banks greater than 50 billion dont have a choice. That is my time. Im sorry, did you want to talk over me . We know that. Believe it or not, the time alongside the gentle lady from new york. So why did they not want to be designated. Designation and supervision is what leads them to think this, so why would they not want to be designated. Again, at the time alongside to the gentle lady from new york area. I rather hear discussion between the two of them than the majority of people here on both sides. You are recognized. I agree with that. Here you have to have designation, which is aig and he had no choice and they were silent and the other Insur
And they wouldnt have stopped any of it. You couldve made all those bad Mortgage Loans. And then the question is if you break up the bank and its its part of the issue. Its one of the things that we asked him to look at with regard to discretion. And so why i changed my own position, i believe didnt agree with this but they are part of the complexity and i think that its not just about complexity but its a very good way to diminish this complexity. So my question is what is the level in which you have to get them down and precipitating this was a failure of the Lehman Brothers, so presumably if you think that no bank should be too vague than the big issue would be Lehman Brothers was like this at the time. And so then how does the federal Government Order dismantlement. I do think the complexity issue of the bull rule also has an amendment that was offered by paul when he was here which does give the fed the power to order the divestiture of any particular segment in particular institu
Laundering concerns. They are no longer dealing big banks are no longer dealing with Community Banks because of know your customer concerns. We would recommend to remedy this situation, a, we eliminate fsoc, a regulator composed of regulators. Its a huge redundancy and double jeopardy in the system. Eliminate ambiguities in the terminology and then finally to carve out some protections for the 99. 999 of all american businesses and Financial Institutions that have nothing to do with this regulation. To wrap it up in just a second. Two years ago i testified to this committee. I asked the question, when they business calls its bank for financial services, would anybody be there to answer the phone . We now know the answer to that. And the answer is yes. The Compliance Officer will be there, not the loan officer. Ladies and gentlemen, that is no way to run the best economy in the world. Again, chairman frank. Welcome back home. You are now recognized for your testimony. Thank you, mr. Cha
Really, the mid h90s, it was people on our side that were trying to restrict these kind of loans, and we passed the Home Protection act and he wouldnt use it. The state of georgia passed laws to assist subprime lending abuses and the Bush Administration preempted it. Then i was working with brad miller and mel watt from the democratic side. We were trying to put regulation through to regulate subprime homes, and the public leadership shut it down. And on the day this committee wants democrats in control, again, to regulate subprime loans, it was over the objection of several members here who said subprime loans were good. And the wall street journal rejected it and said, these are good loans. 80 of them are paying on time, which didnt seem to me to be a great statistic. In fact, what happened was this. People on the conservative side were generally pushing these loans until the crisis hit. And then they needed an alternative victim villain to blame for the crisis. So they retroactively
Years studying the assault assault soap. Do we need government to protect workers . Absolutely. Next . Question. [laughter] Good Intentions and gone wrong. That is the show. Tonight. John politicians claimed they make life better to pass laws. They have Good Intentions but we should not judge by intention. Politicians Good Intentions go wrong. Work regulation. Companies are not greedy they dont care about their workers but seems reasonable government has to protect them. Almost everybody agrees. They should be protected. Definitely. So many things could have been. Corporations could be corrupt. The government should step been. John that makes sense. So much beyond the workers control. Safety rules. What does a factory owner care . That is why we need Occupational Safety and health administration. It sets safety rules. They will show how the workplace deaths dropped since the beginning. Thank goodness for government. Except look at this graph. Workplace death was dropped even before osh