OBAMA CONTINUES PUMPING OUR MONEY INTO "FANNY & FREDDIE" WITHOUT REFORMING IT!

The New York Times noted yesterday (May, 11):


“Fannie Mae’s request on Monday for another $8.4 billion in federal aid comes at a politically inconvenient time for the Obama administration, which is pressing to pass sweeping financial legislation without resolving the company’s future…. Democrats want to defer an overhaul of federal housing policy until next year, after the midterm elections. But Republicans have seized on the continuing losses to argue that a plan for the two companies should be a priority of the current legislation.”


Republicans have been pressing for an end to bailouts that would get the government out of the mortgage business once and for all. But Democrats are not only unwilling to reform Fannie and Freddie, they are doubling down on the failed government mortgage companies – burning through hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in the process. As the Washington Post noted in a report yesterday: “Under the terms of the government's 2008 emergency takeover of Fannie and Freddie, the Treasury must pump money into either firm whenever its worth, as measured by assets minus liabilities, goes into the red. Late last year, the Obama administration pledged unlimited backing.”


For years, Republicans raised red flags about Fannie and Freddie’s financial condition and proposed responsible reforms only to be thwarted by Democrats who have deep political ties to the worst offenders. These same powerful Democrats are now pushing for a financial reform bill that doesn’t even address the need to fix these government mortgage companies. As the Wall Street Journal wrote last week, “reforming the financial system without fixing Fannie and Freddie is like declaring a war on terror and ignoring al Qaeda.”
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MORE PROOF OF THE OUTSTANDING JOB THAT FRANKLIN RAINES DID IN RUNNING FNMA

NEWS FLASH!!!


(Reuters) - Fannie Mae, the largest U.S. residential mortgage provider, on Monday reported a net loss of $13.1 billion in the first quarter and said it tapped the Treasury for additional aid of $15.3 billion.


Its regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has asked for $8.4 billion more before June 30 from the Treasury for Fannie Mae to eliminate its net worth deficit as of March 31. With that draw, Fannie Mae will have received $84.6 billion in federal aid.


The company said it expects default rates and credit-related costs to remain heightened this year with housing still weak, saying there is "significant uncertainty as to our long-term financial sustainability."


HEY FRANKLIN...WHY DON'T YOU GIVE BACK THAT $90 MILLION IN BONUSES YOU GOT (FOR COOKING THE BOOKS) INSTEAD OF EXPECTING AMERICAN TAXPAYERS FOR THE BAILOUT??? 


I wish somebody in the media would ask him that question.  And also ask BO to please explain this one.  Or Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Jamie Gorelick.
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