Hi Tweed, & that's only the tip of it. Funding that was helping to curb child abuse has been slashed. The Head Start program's (a Bush favorite) funding has been slashed though they say it's on the same budget as the prior year except all the increases, raises, etc still have to be paid for by contract from the none existing funding. Special ed. is getting pissed on, around here their closing down facilities that house those (adults & kids) that can't survive without proper care & treatment & tossing them out into the street along with (not drunks or druggies) rest of the mentally challenged (again kids & adults). "Leave No Kid Behind", read my lips. It's one failure after another everywhere, SS, meds for the poor & eldery & now the Iraqis are getting the same raw deal that was offered us, a tax break that Bush says will jump start their economy. Damn I hope that they fair better than we are under this new occupation. The world's a stage? Wait till the curtain drops on this fias-show. The only cards in the deck that I see getting played are all coming fom the bottom. I'm just totally disgusted with what's happening to 'OUR' govgernment & how the snakes, who have balls but no backbone, are turning our nation into what our forefathers fought to free themselves from & fought to keep it from what it's becoming. Take Insurance companies, Drug manufactures, Arms manufacturers, Power companies/brokers, stock & money brokers, etc, etc, etc. The list just gets longer & more unbelievable day by day. Who the hell's fighting our war, the war against Aids, drugs, poverty, poor education, child abuse, violence, job loss, infant mortality, civil rights abuses, government corruption, human rights violations, medical non coverage, media coverage control, etc, etc, etc. Who the f$%k do they think we are to swallow such shit, we're in the toilet here & at least some of us know it & I know this, that this ruling dictatorship couldn't give a damn about those that they say they're serving. This country could've been the greatest ever, we could've been the only contender, now it's just a ugly interntional disgrace. When history recordes this dark era, MaCarthy will look like Mother Theresa. God help us all. Barry