[Strangler Lewis]

I would assume that our country's banks have an interest in the maintenance of the home mortgage interest deduction since if it were eliminated, housing values would plummet, more people would walk away and fewer people would buy houses.

Were I Supreme manager of our country's economy, I would give everyone a house so that people's homes were not their principal investment and more money could be spent on Fiddle Faddle, I-Pad2s, text messaging plans and the like, thus boosting our nation's real economy.