No unions, just Chuck Schumer, Charles Dodd and Barney Frank forcing Fannie Mac and Fannie Mae to loan money to anyone regardless of their ability to repay. This, in turn, was hoped to make Pres Clinton's Affordable Housing Act look as though it was working. A great Democrat plan. Fail.
Financial institutions were virtually blackmailed by the Dems to accept known bad loans thus creating the housing bubble which as we know burst wide open and all H*ll then broke loose. The banks, being backed into a losing financial corner, in turn created "ghost" paper and sold those mortages downstream rather than take the loss. Soooo...more and more financial institutions got involved. Until.....fail.
It wasn't until 0bama took to the stage that the unions got involved, receiving billions of taxpayer money as a payoff for their support of 0 during his campaign under the lie of Obama saving the nation's banks, which he later demonized as Evil. (Ironically, when our tax dollars were finally tracked down to see who benefited from this give-away, foreign banks, foreign companies, and unions were high on the list).
Isn't politics fun? As for the Mafia, they wish they had a hand puppet like Obama so they could have money given to them like 0 "gifts" the unions.