The proposal was rejected 57-42 on a party-line vote because, as Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) explained, “….passage of such a requirement would restrict home ownership to only those who can afford it.”
Update: That’s the problem with satire thse days. It all sounds plausible.
Whoops. Looks like Mr Dodd got tricked. Still, the quote sure sounds plausible….
McCarthy, not Dodd.My mistake…
Imagine that. I can only get a mortgage and buy a house if I *work* for it. Oh, the humanity.
looks like the story was retracted
Satire.
Yeah, it’s getting real hard to tell.
FTA: (Sen. Dodd said); “passage of such a requirement would restrict home ownership to only those who can afford it.”
Wow, what a novel idea !!!!
Yea yea, I am back from vacation, fishing, doing recon on my deer stand, waterworld with the daughter, domestic discussions, and even a famly reunion where my younger liberal cousin called me a racist, b/c I was dissing Obama. My reply, I am not a Racist, I just cannot agree with Socialism no matter what color it comes in.
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It’s a quote that fits into our modern world, whether it’s real or not.
After all, what Clinton and the intern were doing wasn’t sex. Today’s weather in Saskatchewan is global warming. The swine flu pandemic was threatening to kill millions. Obama is the smartest guy ever to sleep in the White House.
So yeah, nobody needs to afford the house they buy. I mean, why insist on sanity in one part of the asylum?
Satire or not, it’s exactly the attitude and idea that caused the housing collapse. That’s the irony in my opinion. It already happened…
passage of such a requirement would restrict home ownership to only those who can afford it.”
It may be parody but its oh so poignant of today’s politicians musings.
Every day one of them says something more nuts than the last.
I mean the “NASA for Muslims” insanity is so silly even the Onion would have turned something down like that as too implausible.
The human universe is going through a period of mental instability. Again.
Seriously folks, if I had ever had a chance to buy a home with no credit rating, I’d have bought that home and owned it forever. Hell, my landlords will tell I’m not a risk. Banks feel differently. *sigh*
I’ve been saying political satire is dead for years and years now. Every time you make up something so crazy and out there that nobody could possibly think you’re serious, some Lefty says it in a speech a month later.
Lately its been the President of the USA saying it in a speech. D’oh!
Note how fast the dexter side of the ‘tubes self-corrected, with explanation and apology.
In contrast…