In the Bush Administration’s notion of economic recovery, the rich get richer and the poor get more numerous:
With the Midwest leading the way, the nation’s poverty rate went up in 2004 for the fourth straight year even as the U.S. economy strengthened, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.
George W. Bush has been president for a little over four and a half years. With four straight years of increasing poverty rates, the Bush record on poverty is remarkably clear.
There is an undeclared War on Poverty.
Via Crooks and Liars: Fred Barnes, a conservative pundit and frequent Bush apologist, has assailed poor people for foolishly living in areas where disasters happen:
Fred Barnes, who supports throwing endless amounts of taxpayers’ money down the rat hole called the Iraq War, says the federal government should stop providing disaster aid to places like New Orleans when they suffer hurricane damage.
Barnes, speaking on “Special Report with Brit Hume” on Monday (August 29), said people who move into such areas should assume the risk themselves rather than expect help from Congress. He noted that earlier in the day he talked to a Republican offical who also noted that as the storm raged, “every half or hour or so, you know, there’s another billion dollars, another billion dollars the federal government’s gong to have to spend.”
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