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...payment so that they might "monetize" the tax credit and get the cash up front. Down-payment assistance is considered by many to have contributed to the crisis because it helped people buy homes they couldn't really afford. Anyone who doesn't understand that it's a bad idea to push people into buying houses when they're not ready to hasn't been paying attention for the past two years. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...latest, six-part PBS series - The National Parks: America's Best Idea, which debuts Sept. 27 - does not sound like an exception. Who's going to argue with a tree? And the opening minutes - luxuriating in dramatic shots of lava flows, stalactites and waterfalls - promise plenty of unobjectionable, pledge-drive-friendly nature porn. But in a way he couldn't have planned, Burns has ended up making his most topical and political film yet. With America frothing over the role of government - should it save banks? should it expand health coverage? - The National Parks makes a simple case...
...national parks - and The National Parks - are based on ideas that are classically, if not radically, communitarian: That the free market doesn't always act in the public interest. That it's good that every American shares ownership of and responsibility for the most exclusive properties in the country. And that it is right for people - through government - to protect them from business interests and even from the people themselves (like the early visitors who shot game and scratched their names on ancient rocks). A series on a public-TV network that calls a government program America's best idea...
...feel that fearmongering from conspiracy theorists helps or hurts the cause of liberty? -Kevin Tuma, Hillsboro, Texas It depends if there is a true conspiracy. You could call the Federal Reserve a conspiracy because they're conspiring to run the whole economy secretly. But the idea that there are 12 people holed up in some room someplace and they control the world through some type of conspiracy - I don't buy into that...
...totally get that the idea of injecting a tiny bit of a disease into a child is weird. It's freaked people out for more than a century, often for religious reasons, causing riots in England in the 1850s, a huge uprising in Brazil in 1904 and a polio-vaccine boycott in Nigeria in 2001. Such rebellions against vaccination typically lead to disease outbreaks that put unimmunized kids at elevated risk, and, unless someone does something to stop it, endless New Yorker stories...