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To: Rennes Templar

She is actually correct. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government-created, mortgage-guarantee operations. They buy up mortgages from established lenders and sell them them as securities to investors, the transaction being backed by the federal government (i.e., the taxpayer). Thus, when a homeowner defaults on the loan the federal government eventually ends up paying off the debt.


62 posted on 09/08/2008 2:43:57 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ought-six
Let's see if Obama and Biden, not their proxies in the media, are willing to argue they have been a good deal for the taxpayer.

Crickets?

66 posted on 09/08/2008 2:47:28 PM PDT by afortiori
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