I got squatters rights on John Edward’s Mansion!!!!!

The only thing you should feel when shooting insurgents is the rifle recoil.

What  mill did he buy his econ. degree from ?

I honestly do wonder what kind of morons who never balanced a check book employ Dean Baker and allow him to come up with this communist fantasy garbage.

Why pay any bills? Just go out and buy everything on credit. Who cares that it is BAKERS BANK WHO LENDS HIS MONEY ON THESE MORTGAGES and when the bank goes tits up on the back 40 Baker will loose all his money too.

Frankly since Baker is giving away money, I want his money, his job, his home, his car, his.........well I want a look at his wife first and take her on trial run before wanting a woman married to a moron like this.

How he can not see that money and property represent someone else's invested work all across America and by giving it all away no one will have an incentive to work and the nation will result in........gee a Baker world where everyone steals what they want.

I will get in trouble for this, but what Baker is advocating is Mexicans in America. My cousin in Missouri is employed to mow lawns at houses that turn into jungles. The city sent him out to mow a jungle. When he knocked on the door 30 Mexicans came boiling out.....jumped in one car and left. He mowed the lawn.

Look at San Antonio the unsafe housing there where Mexicans in debt buy one lot and put on 4 houses which is a sure fire fire starter. If people do not have a respect for money, labor and community as Baker advocates in purchasing property and keeping it.....instead of just floating a loan at a bank, running the house down and then vacating it after they have gutted it.......there will be no incentive for banks to lend money, no one will put money into a bank as the bank will loose all the money on bad loans.......and that shuts down every local economy.

But I will be glad to teach Baker a lesson, he can start by giving me his bank account and credit cards, I have a love for some fishing equipment, a few guns and I might as well throw in a few traps to really drive his liberal posterior nuts in buying them redlands items.

.....and who says liberals don't love Iraq. They are trying to turn American into the same non economy every day.

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Want to see the result of Baker's "dream?"  Go to any local, state, or federal housing project and take a look.  Better take some armed protection with you, though.  You are likely to find drug pushers, prostitution, and pan handlers in and about the project.  And, that's before you even get inside someones "home", who it's obvious isn't interested in being a steward of the people's property.  There you are likely to find the worst kind of filth and vermin.

Want to find a half baked version of Baker's "dream?"  Go to any city where rent controls are in effect.  There you will find that the owners have all but abandoned their property.  Hey, why should they care?  They aren't getting a market return on their investment and probably haven't for years on end. 

Presently, tax law rewards those that buy and then, rent real property.  The key to the equation is those that pay their rent on time and maintain the property as if it theirs.  Take away any part of the equation and all you will have left is the above projects.  Take away a fair market return and you get shabby rent controlled dwellings usually not fit for animals to live in. 

By the way, these "social justice" nuts have "great" ideas, but are never around to face the consequences when their ideas are inacted.      

Dean Baker shows yet again why liberals must never be in charge of economic policy in this country.  An ignorant and arrogant article written by an overpaid ivory tower snob.

isn't due process? A legal proceeding that can not take effect without hoops being jumped through?