Palin will need alot of briefing and a good memory because she thinks Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by the government because they were COSTING TAXPAYERS TOO MUCH MONEY!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/8/122451/7947/855/591041
It's the BAILOUT that will cost taxpayers too much money!! We are taking over what foreign interests won't have to pay!
More background from earlier:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/8/8743/84775/96/590775
which has the correct title for this Banana Republic - OUR FOREIGN MASTERS HAVE SPOKEN
The government had to do this or our system would collapse and we are paying for it - the middle class - not the poor (who are too poor to pay much tax) or the rich (who have had the tax cuts while we have had tax increases.)
If you can't buy a car or a house or send kids to college or even afford to have them - this is why.