[Toddsterpatriot]

But if a dime of taxpayer money ends up being directly invested, the management and the board should immediately be replaced, multimillion dollar salaries should be cut, and bonuses and other compensation should be eliminated. They should cease all lobbying activities and drop all payments to outside lobbyists. And taxpayers should be first in line for any repayments..... I will get real regulation that limits their ability to borrow, shrinks their size until they are no longer a threat to our economy, and privatizes and eliminates their links to the government.

There may actually be a reason to vote for McCain.

[expat_panama]

"...if a dime of taxpayer money ends up being directly invested..."

Fannie and Fred are publicly traded; meaning every single penny of assets already is taxpayer money.  Maybe the writer wasn't talking about our money getting "invested", but rather "taxed and spent".    Seems that most people these days don't know that the two aren't the same thing...