There are more buyers and customers in the medium income bracket than there are in the upper income bracket.

Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the cries for help were numerous. This money will go far in reaching the immediate needs of those impacted.

We've got speculators calling us -- mostly from California and the Northeast -- who say, 'We'll just send crews out there and start building hundreds of homes,' There's a lot of interest in securing a hundred to a thousand acres of land.

Some properties doubled in price overnight. People were bidding up prices, not even caring about the price. They just had to have a place to live.

I felt like those who were least able to generate additional income were the most affected. I really had no idea this was under consideration.

Middle-income living standards, and poverty for that matter, are best addressed through employment growth. By maintaining low inflation and low expectations of inflation, you can create new employment.