This is how it all broke down.....
A study comes out during the Clinton Administration showing that blacks are denied loans at a significantly higher rate than whites. It did not matter that whites were denied loans at a significantly higher rate than Asian-Americans, or that the denials of these loans were based on one's credit ratings and pay stubs. No, all that mattered was that liberal academics felt like black people were being unfairly punished for being black, and therefore, their actual ability to pay a loan be damned, they should get one, so they can buy a house and more democrats can get elected to congress.
And so Democratic law-makers extolled banks into giving out dumb loans to poor people who couldn't pay them, or those banks would then be disallowed from merging, increasing their number of branches, and a whole host of other things that would have basically led to their collapse.
The banks balked at the new rules, telling the gov't "hey, these fukkers aren't going to be able to pay these loans, and we are going to go under." To which the gov't replied, "Don't worry about it, if they can't pay these loans, the gov't will bail you out." And that's exactly what they did.