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To: Pining_4_TX

The idea of the “[American] ownership society” is preferable to the alternative of an alienated population which is then susceptible to being recruited into revolutionary communist factions South of the border.

>>There is nothing noble about using one person’s money to benefit another

Conservative banking institutions do it all the time -- With the expectation of a quid-pro-quo through equitable commerce rendered in the process of community development.

The notion of doing so is consistent with these American words, written in stone upon the walls of the Jefferson memorial (regardless of whether or not Thomas Jefferson is recognized by the Texass school curriculum):

 

It would be interesting to see a distribution of foreclosure rates among various ethnic groups. 

Especially between:

A: Recent immigrants for whom English is a second language to Spanish,

and  

B: White trash who bought their McMansions and toys with a Liar loan because they were expecting to be raptured before the ARM exploded.

 


30 posted on 02/09/2011 8:52:32 PM PST by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: LomanBill

I should have made it clearer what I meant by using someone else’s money. I meant the government taking it by force. Politicians have all sorts of “noble” ideas, but they are fund them with someone else’s money.

“These men, in point of fact, are seldom if ever moved by anything rationally describable as public spirit; there is actually no more public spirit among them than among so many burglars or street-walkers.” H.L. Mencken


31 posted on 02/09/2011 11:38:25 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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