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This story reads like a prophecy of doom. Bill Clinton had HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo loosen Fannie and Freddie lending rules to allow banks to make millions of risky loans the mortgage giants then bought from the banks. During the terms of Clinton appointees Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae CEO, and Board Member Jamie Gorelick, massive losses were concealed from shareholders and Congress while both institutions became insolvent. Raines walked away with $90 million in salary and bonuses, Gorelick pocketed $26 million.
1 posted on 04/20/2010 10:24:40 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Yes, government intervention was the reason for the financial collapse. Now Obama is trying to blame Wall Street while it was his cronies lead by Dodd, Frank and the Black caucus among others that are to blame.


2 posted on 04/20/2010 10:31:45 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Great reminder that it is not all “Bush’s fault”.


3 posted on 04/20/2010 10:34:49 AM PDT by AmusedBystander (Obamunists wanted Mandela Obama, but got Idi Amin Obama, and I got 4 to 8 years in Obamastan gulag.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers...

NOT a desirable goal...except to banks who want to securitize the loans and sell them off and to politicians who want to buy votes from all the new home "owners".

But it takes political courage to state that people who don't have the money don't deserve to own houses.

4 posted on 04/20/2010 10:37:19 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Excellent! The antidote to the lefties who always seek to alter historical facts because history ALWAYS demonstrates that they are wrong.


5 posted on 04/20/2010 10:38:19 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Fannie and Freddie used to be risk averse and serve a good purpose.
Stuff like this helped to undermine their good work.


6 posted on 04/20/2010 10:39:46 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Chairman Mao was a community organizer)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
not again,

responsible people who follow the rules get the shaft, while funding the lefts fraud.

7 posted on 04/20/2010 10:41:46 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: Brad from Tennessee

In order for a socialist state to redistribute property/wealth, it must find and execute ways to get the property into its possession. The mortgage programs of Fannie and Freddie, now that they are fully nationalized institutions, fill the bill. The goal is to get as much private real-estate into govt. hands as soon as possible....then redistribute it at leisure. And so, the exercised tool of wealth and property transfer continues on as this article describes.

The middle class currently has value to socialists as voting instruments and property/wealth holders...when the wealth/property is gone, transferred, perhaps it’s value to socialists as voting instruments will go as well if all this is permitted to happen.


12 posted on 04/20/2010 11:53:18 AM PDT by givemELL (Does Taiwan eet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)
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