Correct...read this:
New York Times - Clinton Adminstration Pressured Fannie Mae
September 30, 1999
In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.
The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.
Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.
...you are right, we should not be capturing enemy combatants and putting them in GITMO. We should just shoot them on the battlefield and stop this silly angst amoungst the press, military and US citizens. It would be so much easier to deal with!
If you buy a piece of land, is it customary that you have to build on it within a given timeframe? IP should be no different. You should have the freedom to do what you want with it. If someone wants the IP badly enough, they can license or buy it. Let's not get government involved in telling us what we can or can't do with our IP.
There is a reason the patents have been sitting on the shelves of corporations doing nothing....they have no value. So, the tax payers will pay to have them reviewed by state governments only to find out that they have no commercial value...that entrepreneurs have no interest in them? Just another way to grow the size of government.
You deserve to vent. I'm sure the "Hotel and Casino Management" degree has been protected along with the degree in "Government Relations"...both programs geared toward creating dependency rather than wealth.
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Correct...read this: New York Times - Clinton Adminstration Pressured Fannie Mae September 30, 1999 In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring. Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.
...you are right, we should not be capturing enemy combatants and putting them in GITMO. We should just shoot them on the battlefield and stop this silly angst amoungst the press, military and US citizens. It would be so much easier to deal with!
If you buy a piece of land, is it customary that you have to build on it within a given timeframe? IP should be no different. You should have the freedom to do what you want with it. If someone wants the IP badly enough, they can license or buy it. Let's not get government involved in telling us what we can or can't do with our IP.
There is a reason the patents have been sitting on the shelves of corporations doing nothing....they have no value. So, the tax payers will pay to have them reviewed by state governments only to find out that they have no commercial value...that entrepreneurs have no interest in them? Just another way to grow the size of government.
You deserve to vent. I'm sure the "Hotel and Casino Management" degree has been protected along with the degree in "Government Relations"...both programs geared toward creating dependency rather than wealth.