Deja vue:

Early today I responded in another thread to the ridiculous McCain objection to Obama's universal mortgage credit proposal on the basis that it would constitute "welfare" for some imagined human parasites.

Guess I'll have to repeat myself, but more briefly this time:

PEOPLE WITH MORTGAGES ARE WORKING PEOPLE. Even in cases of the laxest and most predatory sub-prime lenders, the home buyer HAS to have had some source of income at the time of closing.

I'm surprised and a little disappointed that the Obama camp felt a need to respond to such an absolute absurdity by "adding a work requirement." Of course, it's a meaningless concession ~ it's not like the situation would EVER arise that such a requirement would have to be invoked.