Caption Bush as he gives 5.5 million minority families a home of their own with your tax dollars!

AP via Yahoo ^ | 06.17.02 | Registered

[Registered]

President George W. Bush waves to the crowd before being introduced by U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Mel Martinez (R), at the St. Paul AME Church while in Atlanta, Georgia, June 17, 2002. Bush outlined plans to use loans and tax credits to boost the number of minority homeowners by 5.5 million before 2010. (Larry Downing/Reuters)

BUSH: "I'll be right with you Mel, I'm just saying goodbye to my Conservative Base"

[ffusco]

good for you. I agree. homeownership breeds conservatism. No first time homeowner wants higher taxes, and when they pay their property tax they will be mor inclined to demand standards and accountability for public schools.

[concerned about politics]

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Fire insurance, liability, .....

[Rodney King]

Or how about about: "I'm just saying goodbye to the characters who don't want minorities living in their neighborhoods."

Or how about: "My name is Roscoe and just like the Democrats I am a pathetic loser who accuses my opponents of racism instead of engaging them in debate."

[Registered]

"I'm just saying goodbye to the characters who don't want minorities living in their neighborhoods."

For lack of a stronger argument, I'd say you're playing the race card ;-)

[McGruff]

Why did you conservative republicans vote this guy into office?
I guess that means you're not one of us.

We would've been better off with algore!
Even Al Gore admitted that we were better off with Pres. Bush than a Pres. Gore after Sept 11th,
but I guess you didn't get the word.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Roscoe seems to be saying that blacks "should all be on welfare." Quite a humanitarian there!

[Lonman219]

He is better than Gore, but then my mother is better than Gore.

[Austin Willard Wright]

He may be better than Gore but not (as the last year has proved) better at getting bad things enacted into law.

[Rodney King]

No first time homeowner wants higher taxes, and when they pay their property tax they will be mor inclined to demand standards and accountability for public schools.

That's true. The problem is this: When these people can't pay, do you think they will fight for lower taxes? Or do you think they will whine that the government should bail them out? What do you think W will do? Will he let his program flounder? Or will he decide to give them new benefits to pay their property taxes?

[Registered]

Is it just me, or is the wording of this speech a bit scarey, or what?)

The word you are looking for is "Clintonian".

[Elsie]

Maybe we shouldn't complain -- the other way to "make it change" is for the government to confiscate our houses and give them to blacks and hispanics.

Well, I for one want to watch South Africa JUST a bit more, before going down THIS path!

[Poohbah]

He shed a moral but politically "high priced" constituancy for an amoral but fiscally "high priced" constituancy. IOW, he became a democrat.

Actually, he discovered that the unappeasables have never done anything useful for the GOP, never turned up in numbers necessary for victory, and talked a great deal of trash in place of generating actual results.

[concerned about politics]

Even Al Gore admitted that we were better off with Pres. Bush than a Pres. Gore after Sept 11th, but I guess you didn't get the word.

He got lucky on foreign policy, but as far as national policy, hey, some of us have to live here! He's tossing money around - and it's not his! He's even choosing what race gets it!

[newcats]

I might point that the programs you support keep blacks under the thumb of the Great White Father.

Just to get your insults properly aligned...The Great White Father opresses the Native Americans...it is The Man that opresses blacks....Nice try though.

[FastCoyote]

"You know population stats say that about 52% of US citizens are women and 48% are men. Doesn't that make us guys a minority?"

That would be 52% women, 10% men and a whole bunch of wieners.

[Dane]

The word you are looking for is "Clintonian".

Really? Where's Monica? Oh that's right you will with your wizardry "create" a picture with W. getting a "Monica" in milliseconds.

Nevermind.

[Dales]

I don't know. I have yet to be able to read the plan to be able to speak about it one way or another. It isn't quite up yet fully at the White House's web page.

What I do know is that encouraging families to be able to own their own home is a good thing, and conservatives should be trying to get people into homes. People owning their own homes tend to care for their property and their community more than renters, with all of the corresponding benefits to society (such as less crime).

But what I see on this thread is a bunch of people reacting to synopsises of the proposal, without knowing exactly what the details are. The details could mean this is a good plan, or it could mean it is a sell out.

Too soon to tell.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Actually, that isn't quite true. As someone who has more than a few black friends (I really do!), I can say that expression has been widely used by anti-welfare blacks.

[TankerKC]

Loans and tax credits = tax dollars from my pocket?

I ask again.

[jeremiah]

I'm a lo-oo-oo-ooser, I am not what I appear to be. Of course sung to the tune of the old Beatle song.