Well, no.
There are many institutions who own fnma, not "just a few hundred shareholders".
If the government succeeds is robbing fnma shareholders, the shareholders of these institutions feel the pain also.
Worse, what about the millions who want to buy or sell their home? Did you know fnma facilitates the financing for about half the homes in America????
Oh, yea, I forgot. You want to rob from the old shareholders and give to new shareholders and preferreds..that is your method right?
That fails also. Even worse, its an "epic fail". Its called the "Zimbabwe discount". The Zimbabwe discount means that Americans or other investors dont want to buy investments from third world countries because these countries governments are unstable, their currency is unstable and their laws are unstable permitting a dictator or other ruler to confiscate all earnings for government purposes.
Sound familiar? America is not a third world country. And we dont want to become one, either!!!! We have a constitution which prevents government taking of private property without just compensation.
But, it gets even worse. Americas credit can be lowered by doing stuff like stealing billions of dollars to keep the country running and corrupt politicians happy.
Its already been lowered, if you did not know. If Americas debt gets lowered again, it could become "junk bond" status, where interest rates on Americas debt rises as investors cant count on Americas laws which protect investors.
Each 1 percent rise in interest rates costs America 210 billion PER YEAR (1 percent of 21 trillion debt is 210 billion).
This would cause rampant inflation and devaluation of American dollar. Its none less than catastrophic for America.
I think you have no clue the effect of over 5 trillion dollars (FNMA and FMCC combined enterprise value), on the American and global economy.
The scale of the failure of these 5 trillion dollar companies is immensely more than "just" the failure of say, Apple or Microsoft, or Walmart. Its a bigger failure than all 3 of these companies combined.