We must provide a Family Health Credit that covers 90 percent of the cost of a basic health policy for low-income families. We must make it possible for more people to become homeowners, to own a part of the American Dream. So we ll allow low-income families to use up to a year s worth of Section 8 rental payments to make a down payment on their own home then use five years of those payments to help with the mortgage. We ll start an American Dream Down Payment Fund, matching individual savings for the down payment on a home. I believe in private property so strongly, I want everyone to have some.
Education helps the young.
Empowerment lifts the able. But there are those who need much more. Children without role models. Young people captured by gangs or addiction or despair. Government can spend money, but it cannot put hope in someone s heart or a sense of purpose in their lives.