Get another hobby, Jerko... You line of questioning would be stopped by any judge with an I.Q. greateer than that of a box of animal crackers... Might of fact, get a life to go with your new hobby... Yours, apparently, sucks big time...

Bye...

Now, lwt's look at what a $100B could do toward the larger discussion of poverty in the US... It could fully fund the child care subsidies pool which the Bush administartion has frozen.... Child care is a disgrace... On one hand, with the Clinton also disgraceful Welfare Reform legiaslation or 1996, it says to mothers, "We ain't gonna provide for even in slightest you so 'Get a job'"... But it did recognize that that these mother's wouldn't be able to afford to work, pay rent and living expemses and child care for their kids...

(BTW... Just for the record, this wasn't a challenge that any of the men in and ***man dominated*** Congress of '96 actaully knew anything about first hand as none of them were poor and mothers, but that's another story...)

So here we had a shiny new "Welfare Reform" program that wasn't all that new... It was a logical extensiion of redneck/right wing "Welfare Caddialc" propaganda which was based 100% on disinformation, hatred, bigotry and all the other stuff associated with rednecks and uneducated people...

But here we had this new program which, is essence, said "Get a job. We don't care if you have to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning, egt yer kids to a child care provider and stand in snow waiting for a danged bus to make $5.15 an hour cleaning tioletes down town... Just get a job"... "But", they continued, "we'll help out with the child care and may a little job training (very little)..."

So Bertha Williams up on 27th Street did just that... Got herself a job paying $6.50 and hour (whooopeee, the big bucks...) cleaning motel rooms at the Motel 6 on the other side of town... She tried to find a job closer but in the only area she could afford to live there weren't any jobs...

So fast forward to 2007.... With more and more moms like Bertha Williams using up their ADC or AFDC windows and having to "Get a job" these mothers are now also needing assistence with child care...

Problem: It don't take a rocket surgeon to tell ya that if you freeze the $$$$ amount going into a program and more folks are dependent on that program that Bertha Willaim's subsidies are going to be cut... Well, Bertha has gotten two 25 cents and hour raises since 1886 so she is making $7.00 and hour now... Problem is that prices have outrun the 50 cent and hour increaes and so Bertha Williams has, in essence, taken a pay cut since going along with the program back some 10 years ago...

And, of course, the Dickey's of the world can rationalizee this and blame it folks like me... It's always easier on them to have a big ol' belly laugh as they discount the ideas of the "liberal, the communists, the hippies" or whatever buzz word the Rush Limbaugh's have provided them to discredit people who actually give a rat's ass about human rights...

But here we are with an extra $100B--- Yes, billion, folks--- by closing a loopehole that is expolited almost exclusively by rich people and this money is now available to be used to fight pverty in the USA??? Hmmmmmmmmm???? Congress can't get this loophole close fast enough for the Bertha Williams of our country... No, not fast enough....

Bobert