The senate would like to help people keep their homes in some way or help people buy up the huge oversupply of houses on the market. Have they thought about trying Overstock.com?
King George has told them not to even bother trying to pass the bill on to him because it would be too expensive. He just can't go along with that kind of spending.
In completely unrelated news, direct costs of the war have exceeded $500 billion and total economic impact is over $1.3 trillion. Unmeasured is the moral cost the war has had on our country.
The United States spends about $100 billion a year destroying houses, schools, hospitals, museums, libraries, and anything else that can be bombed. The only safe place to be in Iraq when the bombs are bursting is next to an oil well.
Every year that we continue to annihilate Iraq, the longer it will take for both countries to recover. Maybe when our economy tanks, the tanks will stop running and Iraq can begin rebuilding and Americans can look around and wonder what the hell happened.