Remaining Poor in America Pray for a Natural Disaster

[maxrandb]

That is what I took from the pretzledents speech last night. Well, that, and a bunch of nothing but Platitudes, Platitudes, Platitudes, and more Platitudes!! Everything from the "steeples in Alabama" to the "building it higher" shit, was nothing but canned "platitudes".

Someone with artistic talent ought to put Chimpy's face on the body of a Platypus and call it a "Platy-Bush".

All these programs to help New Orleans, and all the money that will be spent, and all the work to lift people out of poverty are great, but not once during the pretzledents speech did I hear him mention the 2,000 other places of america, and the huge pockets of poverty within them. Every city, every county, every rural area has their own "poor" section. I guess the only hope for those areas, and the people that live in them, is for a terrible disaster to befall them.

Until this hurricane, all you heard about the poor in this country was crickets chirping.

Well Mr President, there are millions more living in poverty, you just don't happen to see them on the news. Maybe it's time you did something for those people. But then again, they have no power, and that is really what this is all about.

[Inland]

1. So they can get their own tax breaks, enterprise zones, right to

homestead in a national park?

All Bush offered the poor was the same privatization, tax break for business trickle down that he offers everyone else.

Admitting the existence of poor people, bad schools, depressed cities has never been a problem for the repugs. Now it's merely that the hurricane relief requires the extraordinary measures of even more tax relief, even more privatization, even more no-bid contracts, even fewer environmental, safety and employment regulations...

[Justyce]

2. He is doing something for the

rest of us... he's making us even poorer by putting us in more debt with this latest stunt. I agree -- he should help these people definitely, but there are many others who need help too. He could start by not cutting money for the disabled & elderly... If he would quit giving so many tax breaks to the wealthy & corporations, this wouldn't be necessary... (I know, this is like preaching to the converted - lol - it's just frustrating)

[pearl]

3. He is clueless

I am poor, disabled etc., etc. and live in
Chicago.

Vital lesson from last few weeks.
I am totally on my own. That could have, would have
been me at the superdome.

Thanks for your post.

I may be poor, but I am not stupid.

"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living"
Mother Jones

[maxrandb]

4. It's Amazing How Low Our Country has Sunk!

When FDR was faced with a terrible depression millions of American seniors living in abject poverty, he called on Americans to sacrifice. In a way reminiscent of Christ, he asked some to make sacrifice for the betterment of all, and he asked all to sacrifice for the betterment of mankind!

Now we get more "tax breaks for the wealthy", and federal tax dollars to the like of Pat Robertson (who may help you as long as you follow his narrow view of religion and "family values").

At one time, we understood that a society was judged by how they cared for the least fortunate. Yes, there was capitalism back then, and no-one begrudges anyone for making a buck and being successful.

I do however be-grudge this. When the 4 heirs of the Walton (Wal-Mart) fortune are worth a combined $200 BILLION, and I am subsidizing the health care cost of their workers...THERE IS SOMETHING TERRIBLY WRONG WITH THEIR PRIORITIES, and the priorities of my country.

FDR knew that government alone could not do it all, and needed the support of the private sector. Republicans feel that government can't, or shouldn't do anything.

Republicans continue to say that government doesn't work, and then get elected to prove it.