Gvt is totally lawless today. That's why I still think there's a significant chance that fnm will indeed be dissolved and shareholders indeed screwed. I'm long but i'm positioned according to the worries i'm expressing here. I'm replying to everyone here, not necessarily Obit personally, so don't feel obliged to reply to me Obit. Use your posts carefully bc they are golden!
Yes we have laws and courts but re-read that excellent article if you missed the GM story or the 3rd amendment in 2012. In case it's not clear, our gvt has become completely unhinged from its most basic legal foundations. Our most basic protections going back to the very reasons for the Founders' revolution are now gone once again. The GM thing flew in the face of literally hundreds of yrs of investment laws and practices. And 2008 was just gvt cronies making it up as they went along with no regard for the law. Sadly, I could easily see the story of FNMA just joining those other horrendous violations of the law that somehow seem to still "stick" many years later. GM, etc. Heck the EPA was just found to have very recently (during this admin) done involuntary, secret testing of cancer causing stuff on humans who were told (lied to) they were being exposed to something totally safe and harmless!!
This is all in the here and now, not in some Orwell book. It's real. It's happening. Gvt is completely unhinged and FNMA is in its sights. There are no politicians championing it, and they'd be in the minority even if they publicly backed shareholders. And supreme ct judges can be bought just like any judges (see John Roberts's ruling on the health care law that forces someone to buy something just bc they are alive). Then see all the exemptions the administration is dishing out to cronies. See all the changes in the law the admin is making even though constitutionally, the executive branch CAN'T just change anything it wants about a law at any time without congress voting on it. Totally unhinged from the law is our gvt. A complete taking of the GSEs would fit right in with those other examples of recent and severely illegal gvt behavior. Notice it's been the last 2 admins. I'm not just bashing the current lawless one. Courts are our only hope, but please don't put your entire life's savings into this ticker bc the gvt cares not one whip about you. It'll wipe out FNMA if it wants to, if it pleases their donors enough to do so.