Posted on 08/30/2006 10:10:23 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
1) Out of wedlock births
2) Kids who attend public schools often learn little, and end up dropping out
3) Minimum wage increases lock young people out of starter jobs
4) Illegal immigrants lock unskilled Americans out of jobs
Do the Dems have a plan for dealing with any of that?
Yes, they do. Much more of the same.
Need to increase their voter base.
We fought the war on poverty, and poverty won.
Democrats started the war on poverty. Why don't Democrats step up and take responsibility for the obvious failures of the war on poverty, the way they want Bush to take take responsibility for what they perceive as a failed war on terror?
"Drive-By Media Alert!"
and to continue, this country became a Great country BEFORE there were such things as health insurance, welfare checks or food stamps. Is my history incorrect here?
We fought the war on drugs and drugs won, too.
Let's hope the War on Terror does not bring a three-peat........
Sure there are some who cannot afford it, but you also have those who don't need it due to:
Now, which of those was Bush's fault?
I'm sick and damned tired of hearing about the health insurance "crisis". Are we tripping over the maimed and sick on our way to work? Are there people crawling about our streets begging for health care? Spitting up blood on the steps of our hospitals?
The poor are fat, just go by the Saturday morning free commodities handout line. Most of the people could feed a third world nation on the calories stored in their bodies.
Do I need to read beyond the first sentence?
As poor people immigrate to the USA in large numbers, of course the number "living in poverty" has increased. But note that often the poverty stricken dependents of those immigrants still live in the old country. And it is the number of dependents that is a key factor in labeling one as "living in poverty".
A fair and balanced news article would also report that the number of upwardly mobile people who were formerly poverty sticken is rapidly increasing. The number of homeowners reaches new records every year among the demographic groups associated with poverty. (Blacks, Hispanics, single parents, single women, etc.)
A fair and balanced article would also report that it is precisely government intervention in the free market place that causes people to make the choices that they do.
When people have a choice between buying a house and paying a mortgage or buying health care, they consciously decide that buying a house is a wise choice and buying health care is a bad choice.
Housing has been a good choice because
-Interest rates were relatively low
-Immigration has created a high demand for housing which drove up the price (until the anti (illegal) immigrant rhetoric killed the real estate market.
-There is no tax on capital gains when the profit from the sale of one house to an immigrant is used to buy an even more expensive house, which is more expensive due to the trickle up demand.
Health Insurance is not a good choice.
-The taxpayer suckers will always pay for medical care. To sho the illogic of these suckers, some want to cut off illegals from this welfare but seem totally content with paying for citizens and legals. Well, as any pro-lifer knows, a baby in the womb is separate from the mother and is thus entitled to well baby care.
-The majority of the health insurance dollar does not go to doctors, nurses and other health care providers. It goes to medical malpractice insurance and all the overhead imposed on society by a busybody congress. For example, both ADA and HIPPA have been extremely expensive to society. At least ADA has actually benefitted a few disabled people, albeit at a high cost to the rest of us, and with a high cost of abuse of ADA by malingerers claiming they are disabled.
In contrast, HIPPA has cost the BlueCross/BlueShield family BILLIONS of dollars.
It has cost Aetna and the privates BILLIONS.
It has cost the HMOs BILLIONS..
It has cost Federal, state and local health Departments (taxpayers) BILLIONS..
It has cost Hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, doctors and other providers BILLIONS..
It has cost employers BILLIONS..
I have an open offer for just one person to step forward and say that his health is better due to HIPPA. The fact is that it has not improved the health of a single person for all the many BILLIONS of dollars spent.
But is has provided employment for a lot of us consultants, both here and in Bangalore.
"It was the first year without an increase in poverty since 2000, just before President Bush took office."
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The AP will reach for everything. Bush is even responsible for the year BEFORE he took office.
I see a lot of fat "poor" people with cell phones and tattoos.
What do they know that I don't know?
Another grabage articel by AP for example
It was the first year without an increase in poverty since 2000, just before President Bush took office.
The last decline in the poverty rate was in 2000, during the Clinton administration,
Bush bad...Clinton good.
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