I just saw this article, and while it doesn't surprise me, my anger at this administration just continues to grow:
http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=990975&tw=wn_wire_stor
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After four years of Bush more and more people are sliding into poverty, are losing the social net that used to be there to help them in rough times, where is the "compassion" of Bush's actions?
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What I really do not understand is how we can continue to ignore this issue as a nation. Is it that we will turn a blind eye to the poor? Do we just leave them to their own resources (which they do not have).
How is cutting funding for section 8 supposed to help the poor? And how in the hell are these people supposed to generate their own "private" retirement accounts under Bush's plan?
I keep reading about "religion" in America, how the "religious right" is taking on moral values, yet I see no morality in turning ones back on the poor. (to read a really good speech by a southern minister on that very subject go here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/11/18427/3405)
Education? a mess under Bush. And how do most people pull themselves out of poverty? Education. We no longer have good paying manufacturing jobs, we no longer have pensions from employers, health insurance provided by employers is slowly being phased out. Will the once strong middle class of America become the "new poor?"
Only those who are in the very highest of income brackets are "safe" from this administration, the rest of us are to reap the wrath of his "compassion."