Barack Obama's Team in Full Retreat on HAMP at a Las Vegas Foreclosure Summit, says why bother getting HAMP, you'd just default anyways!

(Edit Update - August 28, 2012 - 7:00pm) I am adding Vicky Henry's full quote just in case the link ever goes bad. 

"We need a Darwinian flush for the housing market to recover," Henry said at a Foreclosure Prevention Summit sponsored by the city of Las Vegas at Historic Fifth Street School. "We cannot start recovery from the middle. We have to start from the bottom and I think it's reasonable to say we haven't reached the bottom yet. We need to let the foreclosure process work with some regulation and let the market come down as far as it's going to go."

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Vicki Henry of HUD appears to have changed the Barack Obama administration's viewpoint regarding the HAMP for HAMPsters program.

Whereas another Barack Obama team member, Phyllis Caldwell raved about HAMP on Oct. 27, 2010 at a Congressional Oversight committee meeting hearing, Ms Henry came right out and said at a Nov. 12, 2010 Las Vegas Foreclosure Summit that homeowners will probably default even when they are approved for HAMP.

Vicki Henry said "one of the problems with loan modification is that it delays the inevitable". If that is true, then just offer a universal HAMP program without the paperwork hassle, but let the homeowners know that in exchange for a lower mortgage payment, banks will begin parallel foreclosure paperwork just in case the homeowner falls behind.

After all, that is what the banks did anyways, they started foreclosing proceedings, (parallel foreclosure) before the homeowner was put through the paperwork ringer! At least even it up and don't waste the homeowner's time, effort, and huge amounts of money, many times for an actual NEGATIVE result.

Negative result as in the homeowner would have been better off not wasting the time and the hope for something that just accelerated their own foreclosure specifically because of parallel foreclosure practices.

To read the entire eye opening article, click here.

If the government and the banksters had really wanted HAMP to work, they would have combined the HAMP program with a low interest rate credit card debt paydown incentive program. I always have to explain this idea or inevitably someone will post, "if people paid for big screen tv's on their credit card, why should I help pay for that".

The point is a low interest rate credit card debt paydown incentive program means the consumer is paying their ENTIRE PRINCIPLE off, plus a much smaller interest rate charge, as long as their overall credit card debt decreases every month. Many people who can't get out of credit card debt can't get out specifically because of the interest rate charges.

Below is a comment I contributed to the comments section of that article.

Vicki Henry sounds like she would have fit right in at a Nazi World War II concentration camp. It's not her job to say, "this program that Barack Obama has taken credit for really doesn't work, so quit crying about it." Either don't offer the program, or offer it and make it work.

I am sick and tired of Barack Obama's poker face over life and death matters to over a million homeowners. How many of the homeowners who would "inevitably fail" even if they got HAMP might have succeeded if a credit card debt paydown incentive program had been offered at the same time as the HAMP for HAMPsters program had been offered?

Barack Obama OWNS HAMP because he took credit for it, and has periodically bragged about HAMP ever since. If the program is a fraud, he needs to be impeached for luring homeowners into a false safety net. The idea that anybody eligible for HAMP is a loser is absolutely an outrageous statement for Ms. Henry to make.

Swarm The Banks, Parallel Foreclosure.