Re: NBC: What's next?

On 12 Oct 2005 14:11:46 -0700, "emac610" <emac610@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>Steve are you trying to say that there are fewer people who live in
>poverty because of the policies of George W. Bush? Are you trying to
>say that there are more people who have health insurance under GWB?
>Are you trying to say that more of the poor have bettter jobs with
>better wages and better benefits under GWB? Are you trying to say that
>the GWB presidency has been a bigger boon to the less well off in this
>country than the rich?
>Please tell me with a straight face that the poor are getting
>substancially more benefits from the current administration than the
>rich. Every thing this administration does is done to benefit the
>upper classes of this nation. Show me where this administration's top
>priority has been the poor and the less fortunate. You can't because
>nearly every thing that crosses that man's desk is geared to benefit
>the wealthy and the powerful. They are his number one priority. Tell
>me that's not true!!
>
>And don't muddle things with endless statistics. I'm saying that GWB's
>top priority is to enact policies that are geared first and foremost to
>benefit the wealthy and the powerful.
>Are you saying that you don't feel that's true? That he's really hell
>bent on lifting up the poor and the less fortunate? That in all the
>meetings he has with CEO's and big donors and wealthy interests, the
>concerns of the less fortunate among us are an overiding priority (or
>are even a blip on the radar for that matter)? That's all I'm asking.
>At the end of the day, who has GWB thought more about, the poor or his
>base?
>

Federal spending on the poor, either through federal programs or tax
credits has greatly increased under Bush over what it was under
Clinton. And overall government spending on health care for the poor
has greatly increased as well. The increase in poverty rate under
Bush has been remarkably small in light of the economic problems
caused by the dot.com bubble bursting and corporate malfeasance which
came to light and 9/11, imo. By relative measures which I think are
the most intellectually honest ways to evaluate things -- compared to
other advanced western countries such as France and Germany, the
economy of the United States under Bush has done very well during this
time. The economy under Clinton benefited form $10 a barrel oil. How
do you think such economy would have done had oil been at $60 level
back then? Any chance you think the poverty rate would have been
higher? That's why I say to put things in perspective. As well, most
of current-day poverty is not a result of economic policies pursued by
presidents. Rather, most poverty today in the United States is the
result of out-of-wedlock births and family breakdown. If the rate of
intact nuclear families was today at the same level it was in the
1950s, the poverty rate in United States would probably be near
negligible.
.

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