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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were privately held companies...just like the Insuance companies we have now. Since Republicans have pushed to privatize everything... from our military ie. Blackwater to our prison system this country has gone to hell in a handbasket. No bid contracts to rebuild Iraq (like DICK Cheney's Haliburton) go to friends and chronies. We have rats crawling on our wounded soldiers at Walter Reed (privatized), California thrown into economic crisis by Enron, (Bush buddies), prisons traded on the stock exchange, so the more people in prison the greater the earning potential...it's sick.
Every industrialized country has universal health care and it works. Tax payers actually get something. Our tax dollars are used to police the world...meaning protecting corporate interests abroad. And now this bail out of PRIVATELY held companies on the backs of taxpayers. More corporate welfare. I for one am sick and tired of turing over more than half of my income in the form of taxes and then paying $15,000.00 a year for health insurance. Health insurace that has some $8.00 per hour person dictating to my doctor what procedure or what medicine I can have. Yes..I'm really glad there's no coruption or greed in YOUR healthcare system?!?!

If universal health care is working in other countries why do the people who can afford it come to the US for treatment. Or as in England and Ireland get insurance to get out of the Gov plans. The insurance companies don't tell any doctor what procedure you can have while in countries with goverment run healthcare they do. The lending companies Fannie and Freddie were setup very much like the post office in structure.

Here is the bad news katgarner. If you get government health care you get to turn over the other 1/2 of your salary in taxes instead of 15K

Fannie Mae began as a government set up entity 70 years ago under Franklin Roosevelt. It became privatized in 1968, under Johnson as a political ploy in the 1968 elections. Freddie Mac was a government set up entity in 1970 under Nixon to create competition for Fannie Mae. Under the Bush administration, mass scandal and irregularities in both caused a "sweeping house" of CEO's in 2003 and 2004. It's all a moot point, anyway. No matter how anyone tries to spin it, we're in this extreme economic mess due to the Bush administration. It's simple Economics 101. Bush inherited a surplus and exhibted a gross misunderstanding of economics at best, and just plain ineptitude at worst. (assuming we're going to be kind and not actually accuse him of criminal wrongdoing). You cannot continually spend millions of dollars for every one you actually have and expect to have economic growth and a positive result for more than a short period of time. Bush used every tactic in the book to convince both parties to approve his reckless spending plans. Including the power of vetoes and accusing detractors of being unpatriotic if they didn't help bankrupt the country. Try it with your own budget; you'll soon be over your head.

First, I have no specific party. Second, the 1996 American Dream Act concerned the reform of illegal immigration and the states rights to determine status for the purposes of higher education funding. Third, the American Dream Downpayment Initiative was signed into law in December 2003. Fourth, I stand by what I said. However, if you don't believe it, just build huge sums of debt on yourself and "grow" your way to prosperity. Good luck on your endeavor.

Obama has two of the top dogs of the failing companies working for him, now that makes me feel so secure.

Yeah, I can see it now:

Patient - "I'm having chest pains!"

Nurse - "I'll need your insurance card, social security card, an official picture ID, personal property tax receipts from the last two years, and your official birth certificate with a raised seal"

Patient - "I have my insurance card and my drivers license. Please, can't you help me? I'm really in pain."

Nurse - "I'm sorry sir, but without the required paperwork, there's nothing I can do for you."

Patient - "Gasp" Thud!

Nurse - "Next!... please step around the body."

Goverment halthcare is better than no healthcare which is what millions of americans don't jave

Goverment halthcare is better than no healthcare which is what millions of americans don't jave

So Rtralles are you willing to give up your health care so others can have some? I don't think it is fair that I worked my butt off getting an education and putting forth the effort to find a good job, so I can have good health benefits. Then have them taken a way just so some lazy SOB sitting at home not doing nothing but collecting welfare can have medical coverage.