I am sober now. Did * really say something about homesteading last night?

[Botany]

Where? Don't people already own the land? How exactly is that supposed
to work? Can people show up and squat on Lott's lot?


Or was that just an alcohol produced strange thought? :wow:

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Egads!

I didn't hear Fuckstick's speech either. I'm curious to find out what the asshole said.

[Botany]

2. I heard it but ......

....... I have to medicate myself to listen to that asshat.

[underpants]

Spent the night listening to REM did ya?

Yes W said that he would try (really really wants to) impelement a Homestead Act type thing for Louisiana. He said they would look into what Fed land is available in the area and that it could be given to people so long as they build a home on it (mortgage debt etc).

Of course this also means that there will be lots of rezoning ;-) as well



And I feel fine

[Finder]

3. Yep, and.....

I have a feeling it will end up being reservation style areas while the prime area goes to the oil magnates and other rich folk.

[Solly Mack]

4. He's going to use federally owned land

like where state run facilities once existed, where public housing once existed , and other government buildings..

and it's just been proposed for HUD to give loans and help to families in higher income brackets...( it's in the Congressional bill regarding HUD funding)

Bush also wants Habitat for Humanity to build some (not all) of the homes- so people can stop renting and start owning.(but I didn't "hear" that part without thinking "and the catch is")

[Agnomen]

7. He almost choked pronouncing "Habitat for Humanity"

[Solly Mack]

8. Yeah he did!

It was almost comical....in a tragic sort of way.

[charlie]

13. He also called disaster relief

disaster release before backtracking. It was in the middle of his half-baked mea culpa, while he was explaining Katrina wasn't a "normal" hurricane.

[formernaderite]

5. err...homesteading is a tax exemption...like in DC usually

if you reside in the house you get a break in your property taxes, as opposed to renting it out. In DC it's called the homesteading exemption.

[Sydnie]

Didn't Rove claim that FIVE times on his last tax filing for five

different houses ... and can't you only claim that for one house ... the one you spend the most time in?

Five houses? Anyone remember this, it was recently revealed.

[Botany]

12. I would love 15 minutes of time w/ Rove.

that is a man who really needs a beat down,
He is with out shame or morals.


* now has him in charge of rebuilding the Gulf south?

Maybe I missed it but what experience does he have?

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

15. Experience? Which Shrub Official Has Had ANY Experience? nt

[xxqqqzme]

16. Experience?

saurove or blivet**?



Experience? We don't need no steeenking experience!

[Vickers]

18. Two different things...do a search on Homestead Act

:thumbsup:

[pitohui]

19. yes louisiana is already a homestead state

don't know if there are many others but in louisiana you don't pay property tax on modest homes assessed at under $75,000

so he isn't giving us anything there we don't already got

[hlthe2b]

6. Yeah, in addition to the $40 and the mule, the Conestoga wagon...

if they can make their way to North Dakota,there's LAND to be had! (after Bush steels it once again from the Native Americans that is)

:eyes:

Sorry, I'm on BS overload.

[Botany]

11. Wagons Ho!

Oil companies to the front of the line.

[yy4me]

9. Homesteading? Is that after they take the land by eminent domain?

Then they can parcel it out to whomever they please? Boy this one smacks of patronage. Doesn't someone already own the land that most of the people live on? What will they give out, swamp? Gee, thanks george!

[sando]

10. Just more

Smoke and mirrors in order to funnel more money to "his base". I don't know why people even bother to analyze what he says. There's nothing there for the poor even in the region much less the rest of the nation which he never bothered to mention once. It would be interesting to find out just how much federal land there is Louisiana and other Gulf states that were affected. Maybe he means Death Valley he never said where the Federal lands would be located.

[earth mom]

17. Good points!

Welcome to DU sando! :)

[Lochloosa]

14. Sorry, I was deep into a bottle of scotch...

don't remember a thing he said. Like it matters...