Re: One Bush Left Behind

On Jan 30, 12:24 pm, whistler <whistler...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 30, 11:15 am, Sanity <sanity-cla...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Jan 30, 10:07 am, "freak vent flyer" <freakvent_fl...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

...Here's your question, class:
In his State of the Union, the President asked Congress for $300 million for
poor kids in the inner city. As there are, officially, 15 million children
in America living in poverty, how much is that per child? Correct! $20..

Here's your second question. The President also demanded that Congress
extend his tax cuts. The cost: $4.3 trillion over ten years. The big
recipients are millionaires. And the number of millionaires happens, not
coincidentally, to equal the number of poor kids, roughly 15 million of
them. OK class: what is the cost of the tax cut per millionaire? That's
right, Richie, $287,000 apiece.

Mr. Bush said, "In neighborhoods across our country, there are boys and
girls with dreams. And a decent education is their only hope of achieving
them."

So how much educational dreaming will $20 buy?

-George Bush's alma mater, Phillips Andover Academy, tells us their annual
tuition is $37,200. The $20 "Pell Grant for Kids," as the White House calls
it, will buy a poor kid about 35 minutes of this educational dream. So they'll
have to wake up quickly.

-$20 won't cover the cost of the final book in the Harry Potter series..

If you can't buy a book nor pay tuition with a sawbuck, what exactly can a
poor kid buy with $20 in urban America? The Palast Investigative Team donned
baseball caps and big pants and discovered we could obtain what local
citizens call a "rock" of crack cocaine. For $20, we were guaranteed we
could fulfill any kid's dream for at least 15 minutes.

Now we could see the incontrovertible logic in what appeared to be quixotic
ravings by the President about free trade with Colombia, Pell Grant for Kids
and the surge in Iraq. In Iraq, General Petraeus tells us we must continue
to feed in troops for another ten years. There is no way the military can
recruit these freedom fighters unless our lower income youth are high,
hooked and desperate. Don't say, 'crack vials,' they're, 'Democracy Rocks'!

The plan would have been clearer if Mr. Bush had kept in his speech the line
from his original draft which read, "I have ordered 30,000 additional troops
to Iraq this year - and I am proud to say my military-age kids are not among
them."

Of course, there's an effective alternative to Mr. Bush's plan - which won't
cost a penny more. Simply turn it upside down. Let's give each millionaire
in America a $20 bill, and every poor child $287,000.

And, there's an added benefit to this alternative. Had we turned Mr. Bush
and his plan upside down, he could have spoken to Congress from his heart...

http://www.gregpalast.com/one-bush-left-behind/

Biting commentary.  Does the math.  Great stuff!

Peace, Sanity- Hide quoted text -

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Unfortunately, if say Obama (or any of'em) should dare to spout such
heretical blasphemy, they would be 'on the curb' in two shakes of a
pundits tale.  NO "Harsh Reality" Allowed !

Nothing "Harsh" about giving each school kid all that money......

Sanity
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