The "Left" and It's Media "Ammo"

This cut and paste post was made in a chatroom I frequent. It was made as "The Left's Ammo" againts George Bush as a competant President. My reply follows.

Sat Aug 14 13:44 * - Subject: Is this just more evidence that Bush speaks with a forked tongue?

A Person From The Left said:

Bush to Cut Indian Housing He Praised
The program the president lauded at a campaign stop in New Mexico will see its funding sharply reduced in his budget.
From Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to cut the budget of an American Indian housing program praised by President Bush during a campaign stop here this week.

Department officials say the program can be cut because it has millions of dollars in unspent money — indicating there aren't enough takers to warrant the current level of funding.

Bush, during a speech Wednesday in Albuquerque, praised the program as making the American dream available to all.

He did not mention plans to cut its money.

"Doesn't it make sense to have public policy aimed at helping people own their own home?" Bush told a crowd of about 1,000. "I can't think of a better use of resources."

The Indian Housing and Guarantee Fund went into effect in 1992. Between July 1992 and November 2003, it made possible 417 loans worth $41 million.

Bush's proposed budget would reduce the program's annual funding from $5.3 million to $1 million, which would allow it to back $29 million in home loans, according to HUD.

In addition, the budget seeks the return of $33 million in unspent funds from the program.

The chairman of the National American Indian Housing Council, an Indian housing advocacy group, said Thursday that the cuts would stall the program just as it was gaining momentum.

Chester Carl said the program had started out slowly but that tribes now understood there was another way to get housing, and banks now knew they could make loans on tribal land.

"It's going to go backward," Carl said.

A Bush campaign spokesman, Danny Diaz, said Indian housing loans had doubled under Bush's administration.

He also said there was enough money in the program to satisfy all requests for the rest of this fiscal year.

My reply:

Let's go through it together and i'll show you where your agenda got shot down. Ready? Okay, here we go...

The enire article is a contradiction. Starting with the headline.

"Bush to Cut Indian Housing He Praised"

"To Cut" means to take away in political terms, right? So we're all set to read how everything has been cut.

But, wait!

Immediately under the headline...

"The program the president lauded at a campaign stop in New Mexico will see its funding sharply reduced in his budget"

Sharply reduced? I thought it said it was going to be cut!

Sharply reduced is far different than cut.

"Department officials say the program can be cut because it has millions of dollars in unspent money — indicating there aren't enough takers to warrant the current level of funding."

Not enough takers, that's interesting. If no one is using the program, why keep the funds locked up in it? For a rainy day? I'm sure other programs could use this overage of money sitting there doing nothing.

"Bush's proposed budget would reduce the program's annual funding from $5.3 million to $1 million, which would allow it to back $29 million in home loans, according to HUD."

Sounds like the people that need it will have it.

"In addition, the budget seeks the return of $33 million in unspent funds from the program."

$33M in unspent funds. Why were they unspent? Why weren't people using the program? Didn't need it anymore? Oh yeah, that was already said, wasn't it?

"The Chairman of the National American Indian Housing Council, an Indian housing advocacy group, said Thursday that the cuts would stall the program just as it was gaining momentum."

How could it be gaining momentum when no one was using it, thus the $33M in unspent funds?

"Chester Carl said the program had started out slowly but that tribes now understood there was another way to get housing, and banks now knew they could make loans on tribal land."

Oh, I see... tribes now understood there was another way to get housing, and banks now knew they could make loans on tribal land.

"...Indian housing loans had doubled under Bush's administration."

Doubled! Wow! That's great.

""It's going to go backward," Carl said."

How could it be? There's enough money left in the program for the people that want to use it. That's a going forward.

The banks now know what to do and how to do it. The need for the program has evaporated. It's not a bad thing, Chester Carl. It's a positive thing.

"There was enough money in the program to satisfy all requests for the rest of this fiscal year."

Good to know they have been, and continue to be, well taken care of by their government.

So, your point is what? That this "journalist" wrote a headline to trick and cast doubt and suspicion in the minds of the people reading the article?
The headline says one thing while the article says quite another.

Read something completely before you post it as an attack. And, most of all, be sure you understand what it says.