And just another thought this morning about the drastic increases of poverty in American over the last 5 years...

Bush came into office with one mandate and that was aadate that has been passed down from one rich generation to the next and that is to kill off as much of the New Deal and great Society as he can... The rich have catchy little phrases that love to throw about as if they really mean anything... "Personal responsibility" is my least favorite becuase it inmplies that the ruich gotr there the old fashioned way, theu hard work... The reality is that most rich folks were born into rich families...

The newest phrase is "ownership society" which is just a different version of "personal responsibility" and means absolutely nuthing except "Wr're going to redristribute the waelth away from you poor working stiff who created it to us rich folks and if you don't like it, tough beans... Wwe own the friggin' governemnt, loosers.."
Yeah, that is purdy much waht "ownership society" means...

Keep yer head up, Janie. The goodness of man will survive these nasty, greedy crooks...

BTW, the area we've moved to is filled with folks who'es grandparents were the ones who were physically removed from the top of the Blue Ridge Mountian in the 30's by the CCC to make a national park and "Skyline Drive" and many of them is just dirt poor old folks... We have several who we're allready looking after and one in particular, Mr. Clifford, has taken a real likin' to the P-Vine's home cookin' and is up here 'bout as much as he's in his little shack of a house... But we love the old guy...

Like I said, hang in there, do yer best... This inhumanity can't last forever...

Bobert