By the way if you look at the numbers I posted regarding poverty midway through the Clinton administration and the Bush administration you will see that the number I quoted for Clinton was 13.7 % below the poverty line and Bush at 12.1 may be wrong and is supposed to be 12.7. I may have actually written this down wrong or the number is based on Fy 2005.
I will verify that number but the point is that it is lower than the Clinton administration and the amount spent by the Bush administration is substatntially higher.
Another thing I don't understand about all the people doing all the bashing.
I never see anyone saying things like were reported today about the US Coast Guard saving 6500 people in the first week of the disaster.
Most of these by the way were done by helicopter. I wonder how the hell they did that when according to the bashers nothing was done right for the first week or so.
I cannot for the life of me understand why in the world anyone would bother to live in this country since nothing is done right at all.
I'll tell you why.The Government is responsible truly for only one thing and one thing only and that is to provide the opportunity to all who live here to better their lives.
There was a Black Genteleman on Fox the other day.Wednesday as a matter of fact. He was a writer for the Chicago Tribune I believe.He said himself that yes there is more to do but it used to be that 60% of all Blacks lived below the poverty line and it is now at 25%.

I do believe that more neeeds to be done especially about health care and trying to somehow bring those out of poverty that wish to be.This will take funds and a program that makes some sense. Money in of itself will not solve the poverty problem and I have yet to hear anyone give a real answer on the health care problem.
I sure do not want to have socialized medicine. It Sucks! big time