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	<title>Comments on: In Defense of Madness</title>
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		<title>By: WHAT’S THE BUZZ? TELL ME WHAT’S A HAPPENNIN’ &#124; The-Informer</title>
		<link>http://www.taxgirl.com/in-defense-of-madness/comment-page-1/#comment-7508</link>
		<dc:creator>WHAT’S THE BUZZ? TELL ME WHAT’S A HAPPENNIN’ &#124; The-Informer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] * Not exactly tax-related, but TAX GIRL Kelly Phillips Erb discusses a “wrinkle” in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bail-out in her post “In Defense of Madness”. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] * Not exactly tax-related, but TAX GIRL Kelly Phillips Erb discusses a “wrinkle” in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bail-out in her post “In Defense of Madness”. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Suz</title>
		<link>http://www.taxgirl.com/in-defense-of-madness/comment-page-1/#comment-7247</link>
		<dc:creator>Suz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a non-lawyerly person...all I want to say is &#039;NOT FAIR!&#039;.  Haven&#039;t we given enough already?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a non-lawyerly person&#8230;all I want to say is &#8216;NOT FAIR!&#8217;.  Haven&#8217;t we given enough already?</p>
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		<title>By: chris</title>
		<link>http://www.taxgirl.com/in-defense-of-madness/comment-page-1/#comment-7246</link>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Typical big government. They create these quasi-private corporations, lump all all the risk on the public sector, and politicians use it as a tool to set up buddies with ridiculous salaries and let them get away with accounting murder at the same time they are attacking wall street for the same crap. Is there any wonder why Wall Street has so many troubles? Seems like they just followed Uncle Sam&#039;s example.

Honest politicians have been railing against these pseudo corporations for years but nothing ever comes of it because the ones assuming the risk(taxpayers) don&#039;t even know or understand the whole scheme. 

These entities have been a plaything and a bank account for democrats for years. A bunch of Bill Clinton people were set up there and and pilfered millions through &quot;creative&quot; accounting and Obama&#039;s new chief of staff worked for Freddie. Prominent Democrat backers have also been convicted for abuses. It has been a social engineering and affirmative action test bed for years and now that the scandals have destroyed our housing prices and crushed the artificial bubble that all the easy money created, we somehow find a way to blame our economic woes on everybody but those that are truly responsible, like Barney Frank, Bill Clinton, and Franklin Raines, and the democrats who received enormous amounts of campaign contributions to keep the gravy train rolling like Chris Dodd, Barrack Obama, and all their Cronies who have enriched themselves at our expense, from their Freddie and Fannie buddies. (if you don&#039;t believe me just google search it)

We can all look forward to continued bailouts and continued corruption now that Freddie and Fannie&#039;s favorite son is our president. No expense will be spared to save this Democrat cash cow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Typical big government. They create these quasi-private corporations, lump all all the risk on the public sector, and politicians use it as a tool to set up buddies with ridiculous salaries and let them get away with accounting murder at the same time they are attacking wall street for the same crap. Is there any wonder why Wall Street has so many troubles? Seems like they just followed Uncle Sam&#8217;s example.</p>
<p>Honest politicians have been railing against these pseudo corporations for years but nothing ever comes of it because the ones assuming the risk(taxpayers) don&#8217;t even know or understand the whole scheme. </p>
<p>These entities have been a plaything and a bank account for democrats for years. A bunch of Bill Clinton people were set up there and and pilfered millions through &#8220;creative&#8221; accounting and Obama&#8217;s new chief of staff worked for Freddie. Prominent Democrat backers have also been convicted for abuses. It has been a social engineering and affirmative action test bed for years and now that the scandals have destroyed our housing prices and crushed the artificial bubble that all the easy money created, we somehow find a way to blame our economic woes on everybody but those that are truly responsible, like Barney Frank, Bill Clinton, and Franklin Raines, and the democrats who received enormous amounts of campaign contributions to keep the gravy train rolling like Chris Dodd, Barrack Obama, and all their Cronies who have enriched themselves at our expense, from their Freddie and Fannie buddies. (if you don&#8217;t believe me just google search it)</p>
<p>We can all look forward to continued bailouts and continued corruption now that Freddie and Fannie&#8217;s favorite son is our president. No expense will be spared to save this Democrat cash cow.</p>
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		<title>By: Catherine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Catherine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Typical. This is generally what happens when government acts too quickly...a cluster-f*^!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Typical. This is generally what happens when government acts too quickly&#8230;a cluster-f*^!</p>
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		<title>By: Charles Thomas</title>
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		<dc:creator>Charles Thomas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a former public defender, I used to be paid by the government to thwart and obfuscate the government, but this is ridiculous.  Congress could legislatively bar the indemnity clause in the executives contracts, but that would a require a certain level of give-a-damn that lame duck sessions are famously lacking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a former public defender, I used to be paid by the government to thwart and obfuscate the government, but this is ridiculous.  Congress could legislatively bar the indemnity clause in the executives contracts, but that would a require a certain level of give-a-damn that lame duck sessions are famously lacking.</p>
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