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...expect much more. They saw hope last summer when Congress passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, which seemed to promise housing relief for hundreds of thousands of homeowners like Butler via mortgage-restructuring aid. But for reasons no one in Washington has adequately explained, that part of the bill never really materialized. What foreclosure-ravaged communities got instead were slivers of a $4 billion Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) fund to buy and refurbish already foreclosed homes. The city of Miami Gardens received $6.8 million, enough to acquire about 40 homes, less than 1% of the more than...
...Gibbs and the rest of the over-the-top hallelujah chorus. America's vote will "save it"? I must have missed news of its approaching death. Obama is a "radical departure" from presidents who "were born into power or bred to it"? I guess TIME doesn't remember where Bill Clinton, or Ronald Reagan, or Abraham Lincoln came from. And now Obama's a "prince"? Maybe you should tone it down. Let Obama do his job, and you do yours. You know, report the news - not your own ecstasy. David Shaffer, Delmar, New York...
...Libertarian and don't abide free government handouts, so I agree to an extent with Grunwald's argument for farm-bill revision. However, I must contest some of his findings. He states, "The median farmer's net worth is five times the median American's." Of course it is - farmers own tons of acres; but let's see you try to operate your business when all that net worth is tied up in land. In addition, he claims, "the biofuel boom is also jacking up the price of grain." Yet the price of corn has fallen at least 50% since...
...libertarian and don't abide free government handouts, so I agree to an extent with Michael Grunwald's argument for farm-bill revision [Nov. 17]. However, I must contest some of his findings. He states, "The median farmer's net worth is five times the median American's." Of course it is--farmers own tons of acres; but let's see you try to operate your business when all that net worth is tied up in land. In addition, he claims, "the biofuel boom is also jacking up the price of grain." Yet the price of corn has fallen...
...Bill O'Reilly Host of The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News anchor and author of the memoir A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity...