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

To: JDN who wrote (265187)	6/19/2002 9:48:11 AM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Actually some greatly expanded insurance pools would be a pretty good fix for a lot of what ails us. The amount of government involvement needed could be nil.

To: JDN who wrote (265187)	6/19/2002 10:29:17 AM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769670

Well, if federal programs are anything like this new housing program proposal, Medicare will be for everyone but whites. WHITES NEED NOT APPLY? OK … what’s the story with Bush’s newest big-government tax-and-spend ploy. He announced this one in Atlanta yesterday. We hear that it is a program of incentives and tax credits to help low-income minorities, particularly blacks and Hispanics, buy homes. The incentives will be funded with dollars seized from taxpayers --- most of whom, as you know, are in the top 30 percent or so of income earners. Every article I read mentions that the government agencies will be ordered to make this assistance available to low income minorities. Nowhere have I specifically read that it will not be available to whites – but that certainly seems to be the general idea. Well – that certainly brings up questions about equal protection under the law. But the Constitution stopped counting long long ago anyway. By the way .. if the government really wants to do something about affordable housing, start with government regulations. Remember that house you were raised in? In all probability that house would be illegal today. It wouldn’t meet current code specifications. Try this – go into any major American city and try to get a permit to build a two bedroom, one bath, 1100 square foot home. Not a chance. Not big enough. Not fancy enough. Not expensive enough. Governments don’t want inexpensive homes. Inexpensive homes come complete with low tax property taxes. So --- make the builders build more expensive homes so that the government can collect more in taxes and then take some of that tax money to redistribute to low-income types who aren’t paying income taxes anyway so that they can buy the homes! Nice deal! boortz.com