Housing bill offers industry hope but at a high cost
Abstract:
The frustration with mortgage, housing and energy problems has given congress just what it needs as your representatives prepare for a long campaign break. It is a piece of legislation that few members will dare vote against. Who would vote against a bill titled “Foreclosure Prevention Act”. So it is an opportunity for members to stuff the legislation with goodies for their districts and, of course, their contributors.
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Comments
04/18/2008 - posted by L. Bancroft
Jim Haughey seems to have forgotten that members of the construction industry are also members of a larger community. Do they want to live in a country were 2.7 million homeowners face eviction? As that great socialist George W. Bush said in his first inaugural address, “Americans in need are not strangers, they are citizens, not problems, but priorities. And all of us are diminished when any are hopeless.”
