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Administration Official: Obama to Offer Three Plans to Phase Out Fannie, Freddie
national journal ^ | 2/8/11 | Jim Tankersley

Posted on 02/08/2011 7:38:28 PM PST by Nachum

President Obama will offer three plans to phase out the troubled home lending agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, an administration official said Tuesday night.

The plans range from a full government guarantee of the housing market to removing nearly all federal backstops for housing loans, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The plans were first reported Tuesday night by The Wall Street Journal.


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KEYWORDS: administration; fannie; freddie; official
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1 posted on 02/08/2011 7:38:33 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 02/08/2011 7:40:12 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

How about stop giving them money and declare them private businesses??


3 posted on 02/08/2011 7:40:24 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: GeronL
Amen! Stop having the FedGov back mortgages.

When companies don't feel the pain of their risk taking, they will take lots of foolish risks.

4 posted on 02/08/2011 7:43:30 PM PST by TheWriterTX (Buy Ammo Often)
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To: GeronL
Amen! Stop having the FedGov back mortgages.

When companies don't feel the pain of their risk taking, they will take lots of foolish risks.

5 posted on 02/08/2011 7:43:38 PM PST by TheWriterTX (Buy Ammo Often)
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To: Nachum

LOL

He’s gonna replace them with a Freddie Czar and a Franny Czar


6 posted on 02/08/2011 7:48:28 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: TheWriterTX

If its not their money, their paycheck, their bonus, their pension... they don’t care about taking risks.


7 posted on 02/08/2011 7:52:25 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: Nachum
Obama has never managed so much as a fruit stand and now he's going to dismantle the entire mortgage industry! Wow! Get me a front row seat!
8 posted on 02/08/2011 8:00:20 PM PST by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: April Lexington

But the friends of Obama certainly are for a single national bank....


9 posted on 02/08/2011 8:03:08 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: TheWriterTX; GeronL

When individuals do have the pain of saving and being responsible day-in, day-out for their adult lifetimes, they might cease behaving foolishly.


10 posted on 02/08/2011 8:08:32 PM PST by One Name
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To: Nachum

But what is he planning to put in their place?


11 posted on 02/08/2011 8:10:40 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Nachum
0'Government buys all the houses.

You pick up a set of keys at the Post Office.

You wonder about the country until you find the house that fits your keys.

You live happily ever after, until it takes your keys next year!

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12 posted on 02/08/2011 8:12:31 PM PST by Cyber Ninja (Live and Let Live; is not working...)
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To: April Lexington
Obama has never managed so much as a fruit stand and now he's going to dismantle the entire mortgage industry!

Well, he's damn near dismantled an entire country, so...

13 posted on 02/08/2011 8:15:31 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: One Name

true that.

Lets try it with government.


14 posted on 02/08/2011 8:23:46 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: One Name
Absolutely!

My husband and I purposefully chose a modest house because we didn't want the other to struggle if something happened to one of us.

The "I've got to have it now" attitude is too much for me to take lately, especially when my tax dollars are footing the bill!

15 posted on 02/08/2011 8:30:15 PM PST by TheWriterTX (Buy Ammo Often)
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To: skr

hopefully nothing


16 posted on 02/08/2011 8:31:22 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: TheWriterTX

The Articles of Confederation look good to me right now.


17 posted on 02/08/2011 8:32:42 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: TheWriterTX

Too many jackrabbits these days- the turtle used to win the race. At least that’s the story my mom read to me when I was a little kid.


18 posted on 02/08/2011 8:38:03 PM PST by One Name
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To: GeronL

That’s a pretty radical concept. Everyone but the fed has to live by it.

What hacks me off is that I can see printing money if the entire Western Hemisphere or more is in danger, like in WWII. These clowns have lived like this in the best of times...


19 posted on 02/08/2011 8:41:33 PM PST by One Name
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To: GeronL

“How about stop giving them money and declare them private businesses??”

They were private until Dubya decided that taxpayers should save them from going bankrupt.


20 posted on 02/08/2011 8:42:04 PM PST by Pelham (Islam, for the humorless life)
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