Barney Frank Rewrites History – Says the Poor Should Not Own Homes
Found via HotAir.com:
Well, I for one am glad that the congressman has changed his opinion on the issue. I am glad that he acknowledges that people don't deserve homes by their sheer existence. They must be able to afford it (on their own; the government intervening will just inflate the price of home ownership, as it has with cost of education).
People are not entitled to anything (that's right, not even the "American Dream"; you earn that dream, not handed out to you), perhaps other than (just because we live in softer times) not to starve and perhaps to be treated for illness when they step through that emergency room doors (provided that either they can afford the care or that the care won't be so expensive that it will be an unbearable burden on the provider). Anything above that, they must earn it.
If they don't, well, the life of a pauper is exactly the thing they deserve.