A "Liberal" response to a neocon (W/ thanks to Greg Whitaker)

[Grins]

I saved this article by Greg Whitaker (link below)

”(neocons) say that the War on Poverty was an abject failure because the poor still exist, as though the millions of lives made better, the multitudes of children better fed and better housed and better educated made zero impact on their lives. They say that "we have thrown millions at these problems to no effect - the poor are still there". Do we hold the Pentagon to this standard? We have "thrown" trillions at the military over recent decades, and there is still war and rumors of war, strife all over the globe. We have less security than we did even here at home! Is the military thus a "failure" which should be defunded and thrown upon the ash heap of history?”
<http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/03/19_neocon.html>

Well, wouldn’t ya’ know it, that poverty thing is actually better than Greg thought. From today’s Washington Post:

”In 1990, … 28 percent of the population in poor and middle-income countries lived below the $1-a-day line. By 2001, that proportion had fallen to 21 percent. … in East Asia, (it)… fell from 30 percent to 16 percent. South Asia … cutting the rate from 41 percent to 31 percent. … Despite this regionally varied performance, the World Bank reckons that, if its projections for economic growth hold true, the global poverty rate will be down below 13 percent by 2015 - less than half the 1990 level.

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35278-2004Apr22.html>

What will Rush and Hannity have to talk about now? (I know, a certain person’s sexual organ.)