Quote from jficquette:
Just buy everyone a house
The last GOP nominee wanted to do something similar to that
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a3yJNGLc2y6Y
McCain Urges Buying Mortgages
Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain said he would order the Treasury Department to buy up bad mortgages in the U.S. and allow homeowners to renegotiate, as he and rival Barack Obama clashed over their economic proposals and records.
``I would order the secretary of Treasury to immediately buy up the bad home-loan mortgages in America and renegotiate at the new value of those homes,'' McCain said tonight during their second debate, a town hall-style forum at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.