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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (246753)	4/10/2002 2:29:09 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Respond to of 769670

Re: "Now maybe you'd agree, another solution would be for the goverment to get out housing business. You yourself admit they do rotten job." Ultimately, ideally, the government should get out of the housing business. But first, we need to crack down on inner-city slumlords who live fancy lives in the suburbs at the expense of society's downtrodden. I've said this before and I'll say it again: The No. 1 way to rebuild our cities is to give hard-working people who don't make all that much money a house to call their own ... instead of an apartment owned by Uncle Sam or a slumlord. The more renters that we turn into home-owners, the better our cities become, because these people then can take pride in the term "community." I'm also in favor of expanding home rehab courses in high schools, junior colleges and community centers, and giving greater tax breaks to "urban pioneers." But this thinking runs counter to the interests of the home builders associations, major donors of the Republican Party, who believe the answer is to keep expanding our suburbs and keep neglecting our urban cores.