I would also like to see Fannie and Freddie abolished post haste and let lenders lend money again instead of underwriting loans for what amounts to the government.

Another issue I have brought up many times here is the use of "rent credits" that term should be totally abolished IMO.

Trancing on the 1st Amendment by abolishing religious groups that we feel are a threat or making it illegal to have verbal discussions that the government doesn't like?

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.Thomas Jefferson - The Declaration of Independence

Slavery would still be legal.

Here is part of the Declaration of Independence, which, by the way, is NOT law.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

It's a relic of the industrial age socialism that trains people to be lifetime workers and debtors which is de facto slavery.

Kids now are raised to take for granted everything they have and therefore we will be outdone by children from other countries who are "hungry" for education and appreciate even the opportunity to attend school.In that regard i think parenting and instilled values are as important as the system itself - it is a sense of entitlement that keeps individuals from wanting to engage in the learning experience.The solution with education is privatization, we should abolish the department of education along with the department of energy, the FED, the IRS, medicaire, medicaid, welfare, obamacare....the list goes on.I do like the idea of incentivizing good grades monetarily.

Am I off base in assuming that the Fannie/Freddie secondary market model is terrible and needs to be abolished post haste?

Hmmm...so odd that one does what ones thinks is right, and works hard, doesn't drink/break laws/gamble, college/4.0 g.p.a. advanced degrees, feeds the coffers of the mortgage lending profiteers and at church, and there is still no hope for any quality of life above rat-in-a-wheel slavery, and should be grateful to be able to do it...just seems really odd, somewhat inhumane.