The Republicans are jumping on Obama's mortgage-credit proposal because they're worried that the MORTGAGEES slated to get a benefit MIGHT NOT BE WORKING!?!?!

Gimme a freakin' break. The chronically unemployed underclass that taxpayers are understandably reluctant to support does NOT include homeowners!

It's true, of course, that some home-owning citizens, in these hard times, might very well be currently and (hopefullly) temporarily unemployed, but they would never have been extended a mortgage loan ~ not even by the most predatory sub-prime lender ~ if they were not working and and earning some kind of income at the time.

People with mortgages, even those in danger of forclosure in the current crisis, are, by definition, WORKING AMERICANS!

(...which is why it should be no surprise that the GOP wants to denigrate them and deny them financial relief...)