Nah, Dickey... You still have a few bolts that need torqueing... The corporations, be it Wal-Mart or Whatever, Inc. have no interst in the poor... If they did they would step to the plate and give campaign money to candidates who favor restoring the "War on POverty" programs... But, no, they run like pigs froma gun from those kinds of cabdidates... They give to candidates who they think can win and who will keep the playing field unlevel in favor of the, ahhhh, corporations....

This is why I make the statement that the real welfare state has nuthin' to do with the poor among us, but the rich...

What Janie has pointed out about dwindleing resources to fight the supposed "War on Poverty" is the problem and it doesn't come around to a general lack of national wealth but national resolve... The rich have squeezed the middle class so hard that the middle class is now just 2 or 3 pay checks away from the poor house... They are living on the edge and "Boss Hog" knows it and knows that he can bust unions and bust the middle classes' rssolve to support funding for programs that "Boss Hog" has spent millions on PR folks to be made the scapegoats of why the middle calss is so close to ruin itself...

So, what we have right now is "Boss Hog's" ***perfect storm***... They have outsourced everything they can... Thay have hidden their profits from the tax-man... They own the governemnt lock, stcok and barrel and here we folk singers are talking about how to reverse these trends toward a nation that actually gave a danged about the poor among us??? Yes, a "perfect storm" indeed for "Boss Hog"... A "trifecta"... But the win for "Boss Hog" has a hollow sound to it in that he has won while having the power to change the rules allmost at will...

This is really what this is about...

Corporate greed and excess of power...

I have mentioned that it will take yet another revolution to get these greedy bastards to realize that it "ain't all about them" and I believe this strongly... Revolutions take their time to ferment and I can guarentee everyone that such a fermentation has begun... I hear it everywhere... Even the "rednecks" and "huillbillies" that I live around have no loyalty to corporate America...

So we can talk about solutions, and I don't think it takes a rocket surgeon to figure out that it's going to take some redistribution of wealth, but until the next American revolution, which in MO will involve "Southern Man", we're not going to be revisiting the "War on Poverty"... And poverty levels will continue to rise...

Bobert