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Bachmann benefitted from federal home loan program

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Let's see if I get this right, Michele is OPPOSED to big government, is for Paul Ryan's plan to end Medicare as we know it, yet she worked for the IRS, took subsidies for her farm & her husband takes money from Medicare/Medicaid for their mental health clinics & she's a congress person, collecting a federal pension & has a Cadillac health insurance paid for by the people & now we learn she got a mortgage from Freddie & Fanny...
Is she kidding us, if it wasn't for government she might be unemployed, without health insurance & homeless! clo

Bachmann benefitted from federal home loan program

by Kimberly Kindy, Published: July 26

Like many members of Congress, Rep. Michele Bachmann has been a fierce critic of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, blaming the government-backed loan programs for excesses that helped create the financial meltdown in 2008.

And like millions of other home purchasers, Bachmann took out a home loan in 2008 that offered lower costs to the borrower through one of the federally subsidized programs, according to mortgage experts who reviewed her loan documents.

Just a few weeks before Bachmann called for dismantling the programs during a House Financial Services Committee hearing, she and her husband signed for a $417,000 home loan to help finance their move to a 5,200-square-foot golf-course home, public records show. Experts who examined the loan documents for The Washington Post say that they are confident the loan was backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. 

Seeing problems with the programs — especially the high costs to taxpayers — hasn’t stopped a concerned public or other members of Congress from taking advantage of the lower interest rates that come due to government backing.

for complete article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bachmann-benefitted-from-federal-home-loan-program/2011/07/19/gIQAI12raI_story.html?hpid=z10




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