Home Economics: Lies, damned lies, and gaps

National Review Online ^ | 6/19/02 | Roger Clegg

[chit*chat]

What an awesome job the government has, making this a perfect world.

[TC Rider]

In my experience, minorities who own homes are more interested in being involved in their communities, more likely to marry and far more likely to slip the bondage of the Democratic party and become Conservatives.

[hobbes1]

Be Careful, talk like that will get you branded as a SGR...

(From the other thread on this subject...)
I don't know what a "Sodomized Goat Republican" is, but I guess I do identify as a RINO shill.
Remember the "Broken Glass Republicans" who would supposedly crawl over a field of broken glass to get to the polls on election day and vote for Bush? I was one of them as probably were you. I've come up with a similar term to describe some of the Republicans I've encountered here on Free Republic and elsewhere. A "Sodomized Goat Republican(tm)" is a Republican who, if George Bush was to go on national TV and sodomize a goat, would immediately applaud and defend the action as part of Bush's grand plan to obtain more support for the war effort and to win over the sodomite/pervert/deviant vote in the next election cycle so that the Republicans would regain the majority in the Senate. And Miss Marple, the SGR poster child, would find some reference to goat sodomy in a Bush campaign or acceptance speech and be on here telling us how we knew he was going to sodomize the goat, it was a campaign promise, and that all of us mean misogynists should just shut up.

[tcostell]

In an even more alarming statistic, nearly 99% of those Americans under the age of 18 don't own their own homes. Isn't there something that can be done?

Stop the injustice!

[browardchad]

In an even more alarming statistic, nearly 99% of those Americans under the age of 18 don't own their own homes. Isn't there something that can be done?

A down-payment as a birthright perhaps?

[Rodney King]

That's a great quote, and right on the money, too. Who authored it? You really ought to ping him/her.

[hobbes1]

I believe Spiff, But I am not sure...

It's balderdash BTW...lol

[Rodney King]

Did you write the quote in #4?

[Joe Hadenuf]

In my experience, minorities who own homes are more interested in being involved in their communities, more likely to marry and far more likely to slip the bondage of the Democratic party and become Conservatives.

Oh, with experience like that, you must live in the southwest region of the United States.

Thanks for that bit of knowledge gained by experience.

[Rodney King]

In my experience, minorities who own homes are more interested in being involved in their communities, more likely to marry and far more likely to slip the bondage of the Democratic party and become Conservatives.

I would tend to agree. However, the people who you have observed all EARNED their home ownership. The outcome might not be the same for the welfare homeowners that Bush will create.

[Stat-boy]

In my experience, minorities who own homes are more interested in being involved in their communities, more likely to marry and far more likely to slip the bondage of the Democratic party and become Conservatives.

We have now ventured into a key aspect of statistical analysis: causation. Here is an important concept: correlation does not prove causation. For example, whenever I take my umbrella to work, my shoes get wet. There is a correlation, but clearly common sense tells us that taking an umbrella does not cause rain. There is a third factor involved in this example (e.g., I observe a weather report or notice dark clouds). In your example, I would argue that you have causation backwards: Minorities who have conservative values are more likely to make the effort to own a home. Just because we give a liberal a home will not make that person more likely to be conservative.

[TC Rider]

Again, that was just my observation, not valid for scientific studies. (and trailers don't count)

I haven't read through all of the details of Bush's plan, so won't comment on it, beyond hoping it's not a complete give-away program.

It seems I heard somewhere that 'habitat4humanity' homes have a huge default rate.

[TC Rider]

baaa?

[Stat-boy]

I hope I did not come across as a pompous jerk. If I did, I apologize. I did not hear about the H4H data, but years ago I read about interesting studies on people who win lotteries...many who’s finances were in disorder before the windfall reverted back to that same state not long afterwards. Maybe when I have time I will look for info on the net.

[TC Rider]

No problem. I agree that giving homes to liberals is a bad thing. Unless of course they are homes in Stalingrad, Havana or North Korea.*

*Offer valid only to current US citizens, offer void except where prohibited by law. If your name is Alec Baldwin, you may already be a winner!

[cruiserman]

Not only the government, but the private sector, must be mobilized "in a major nationwide effort to increase minority ownership."

Why?

[cruiserman]

Only if it's a really handsome goat.

[valkyrieanne]

This is the sign of a man whose party has gone over the 2000 election numbers six ways from Sunday. If the Republicans don't soak up some minority/Hispanic votes, they believe, they'll be sunk. This is pure vote-pandering.

[hobbes1]

yo say that like the is something wrong with it.

There are only two ways to get around it, 1. Get a dictator. And have no elections or 2.wave your magic wand and make the sheeple wake up to the Dems intransigence...

Given the unpalatable flavor of the first and the sheer fantasy of the second, looks like we're stuck with pandering for now..