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"

[Registered]

This ought to be fun.

[boomop1]

Who said I was a putz head?

[Rodney King]

You should post this on todays day in the life thread. Those chicks all claim that dissent it ok, so long as it is on topic (today's events). This should be a good opportunity to test that.

[dead]

Mr. President, if million dollar bills existed, how high would the pile representing your recent spending sprees be?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

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

I'm happy Bush is investing in broadening the Republican party for the future.

I'll bet homeowners are more Republican than Democrat!!

[concerned about politics]

"You on the right can go now. I'm done using you. Thanks."

[RedBloodedAmerican]

"Hey Mel! Lookie here! Some of the Left have gone so far left they are now back around here on the right. Let me wave bye-bye to them! Say who's that unemployed cartoonist out there?"

You were right. This is fun! :0D

[Rodney King]

Anyway, this is just getting out of hand. Every week the guy comes up with something that Clinton would not have dared do for fear of being labled a liberal. Why just minorities? I am closing on a house on 6/28. Why should I subsidize someone else just because I was born with white skin?

Mr. President: Do you believe that we should all be judged by the content of our character or by the color of our skin?

[lavaroise]

I thought we were fighting terror ... not supporting it.

[Dominic Harr]

"Where does the money come from? Shoot, I'm the Prez! I got access to a pile of money this high!"

[be-baw]

"And for my next act, A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT!!"

Yours was excellent Reg. It's gonna be hard to top.

Something to think about for those who say Bush is better than Gore would have been: if Gore were pres, the Senate would filibister every giveaway program he tried to start up. With Bush, the GOP Senators ENDORSE them.

On the other hand, how would Gore be doing with the War on Terror? Scary thought, that....

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

"We were all played for fools. "
No, you were played for a fool. I can read and knew better.
I, however, must live with your mistake.

[G.Mason]

Loans and tax credits = tax dollars from my pocket?

[Jim Pelosi]

Damnit, I have the wrong colored skin....again!

[q_an_a]

I wonder if you read the part about LOANS and TAX CREDITS? This is no different than a GI Bill. Giving people a loan to buy a home is an investment in the future. A tax credit is a way to cut taxes isn't that a conservative idea? How is helping people buy a home against anything that conservative want for people?

If you say that the constitution does have a place for home loans then we should not have had the Louisiana Purchase and the westward expansion of America through the offer of cheap land to "Homesteaders"

[dead]

Why just minorities? I am closing on a house on 6/28. Why should I subsidize someone else just because I was born with white skin?

Because, like all liberals, he believes that blacks and hispanics are too lazy to get ahead on their own.

They must be vomit-fed like baby chicks, from the regurgitating mouth of the mama-bird state.

[hopespringseternal]

Mr. President: Do you believe that we should all be judged by the content of our character or by the color of our skin?

It looks like the answer is obvious. Bush is trying to "LBJ" Hispanics.

I'll never vote for the guy again.

[Poohbah]

Yeah, God forbid that we do anything that might convince minorities to become conservatives (after they discover the joys of owning property in America).

[Harrison Bergeron]

"Now all I have to do is flub the war on terror, and I'll be the Jimmy Carter of Republican Presidents."

[KC_Conspirator]

I can't think of ONE Clinton policy Bush has reversed.

The Mexico City policy for one. He has reversed alot, but not nearly enough in this Freepers mind.

[McGruff]

I knew Ronald Reagan and he is no Ronald Reagan!

[Registered]

[Willie Green]

You should post this on todays day in the life thread. Those chicks all claim that dissent it ok, so long as it is on topic

Those threads scare me.
I haven't clicked on one of those in many, many months.

[RAT Patrol]

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

[faintpraise]

"Presto-Chango! Free houses for the poor and nobody has to pay! Nothing up my sleeve! It's the pure magic of government."

[RAT Patrol]

"I'm not sure I can squander my approval rating as fast as my daddy did but I'll sure keep tryin'!"

[CWRWinger]

"Actually, the house they will get will be about this high. About the size of a big doghouse. And it will cost only $70,000.00 each."

[nravoter]

I am closing on a house on 6/28.

Must be a popular day; I'm closing on my first home the 28^th, also.

[McGruff]

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?

[Poohbah]

Exactly my point.

[riri]

This is scary stuff. Scary, scary stuff.

[headsonpikes]

"They must be vomit-fed like baby chicks, from the regurgitating mouth of the mama-bird state."

Hey, who stole my style-book?!?!

That's a great image, dead. A beauty. Lots of levels of truth...;^)

[Registered]

Yeah, God forbid that we do anything that might convince minorities to become conservatives (after they discover the joys of owning property in America).

First, one of the primary joys of owning property is knowing that you were the one that worked to get it and second, WHEN DO WE HAVE TO BRIBE People to become CONSERVATIVES??????!?!?! ARE YOU INSANE?

[riri]

I bought my first home three years ago. Basically, with nothing. My husbands first bonus with his company just about covered the closing costs and the FHA mandated 3% down payment and , thankfully, good credit and low debt.

Three years later, we sold the house for almost $30,000 more than we paid for it, bought a new home with a 15% down payment. No government handouts here, unless you consider the FHA programs as such.

[Poohbah]

First, one of the primary joys of owning property is knowing that you were the one that worked to get it and second, WHEN DO WE HAVE TO BRIBE People to become CONSERVATIVES??????!?!?!

Loans and tax credits are not "bribes."

ARE YOU INSANE?

No. You, on the other hand...

[Rodney King]

ARE YOU INSANE?

It's amazing what lengths people will go to in order to defend Bush. There is no way that any of these people would defend Clinton doing this.

I hope Rush is all over this tommorrow.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

You forgot to put my name on one of those little houses.

[PsyOp]

You forgot to use your million mom math. After subtracting the balls, you carry the ovaries, and divide by the melanin level. Got it?

[Rodney King]

So I take it then that you believe it is ok for the government to judge people by the color of their skin? If not, then how do you support this proposal?

[Poohbah]

Oh, he will be.

The 2000 election demonstrated that the GOP does not need the mythical my-way-or-the-highway "conservative base" to win.

And that just frosts certain folks.

[nravoter]

Giving people a loan to buy a home is an investment in the future.

This program isn't creating new wealth--it's simply transfering wealth from one group to another. The banks making loans don't magically have more money to lend, they're just told to give it to different people than that would have chosen on their own (and common sense tells you that those who weren't the banks' first choice as loan recipients are those with bad or no credit history and who are more likely to default).

Now, as for the government (our) money being pumped into this boondoggle, that money could have been spent better on a Constitutional government function (like DEFENSE), or by giving it back to the taxpayers. Either of those two choices would have had the same economy-stimulating effect, probably with less wasted in overhead and fraud/waste/abuse. Besides, it's OUR money!

[Dales]

Loans and tax credits, eh?

Giving them money they have to pay back, and letting them keep some of their own money?

[Registered]

LOL, I just printed your post out and showed it to my brother-in-law (another Conservative that wasn't "purchased") who remains on the floor laughing as I post this.

[Registered]

You're a minority?

[Area51]

Bubba Bush is a Fine man, real Fine man. A man of principle :(

Or maybe just another shrewd Politician that does what he wants with Other people's money to buy votes.