Why?

The Obama Administration last week released a report on his redesign of the government's role in housing finance. "The government must help to ensure that all Americans have access to quality housing that they can afford."

Why? Where is that in the Constitution? Bet you can't find it there. What the government "must" do is stop enslaving people in a welfare state. Give them the freedom to earn and buy their own houses, and get the government nose out of it.

If the government hadn't grown so heavy with housing programs, food programs, medical programs, retirement programs, ad infinitum, we wouldn't be in the economic mess we're in now. Able-bodied people would realize if they work, they reap the benefits. If they don't, it's nobody's fault but theirs.

If you want to own a home or anything else, do it the old-fashioned way. Go out and work for it!

"Fewer may get to own homes." The Dallas Morning News; February 12, 2011; p. 1A.