re: #134 reuven

Our current administration is anything but fiscall conservative I wonder why, if we’re broke, do we have plans to pay peoples rent/mortgage for 18 months (for example)

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This is a silly waste of money. If we let this home foreclose, then the price will drop, and someone else may be able to afford it w/o government assistance.

And, to add insult to injury, the recipients of this “free rent” won’t have to pay income tax on the value of this benefit.

Because after all, we needed to bail out the banks and the auto execs, but bailing out ordinary Americans would be un American… After all, only people who burn through billions need to be given a free ride?

What is so insulting about the notion of letting people save their homes after they got screwed in an economic downturn?

Why is it that the OP types care about supporting the wealthy and have no problem handing them even more billions to waste, but helping real hard working Americans is some sort of sin?