Katrina Speech: Confronting Poverty
By on Sep 15th, 2005 at 9:10 pm
Katrina Speech: Confronting Poverty
Bush said: “As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this region as well. And that poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America.”
FACT — MILLIONS MORE AMERICANS HAVE FALLEN INTO POVERTY SINCE BUSH TOOK OFFICE:
1.1 million people fell out of the middle class and into poverty in 2004
1.4 million more children live in poverty since Bush took office
250,000 more African Americans fell into poverty over the last two years
500,000 more Hispanics fell into poverty over the last two years
[Census.gov]
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Armies of compassion? $5000 for job retraining, child care and life? For how long? Tax breaks for employers, what about displaced residents? It just makes me ill. Why reimburse only faith-based helpers?
And didn’t urban homesteading already exist?
September 15th, 2005 at 9:16 pmSo, GW what specifically will you do to confront poverty & racial discrimination?
September 15th, 2005 at 9:17 pmThere will not be any effort made to end poverty in the US. The world needs us to become poorer, using less and less of the planet’s resources which need to go to those that can actually pay for them–china and india. Why would Bushco see poverty reduction as something of use to their agenda? Welcome to the the brave neo-version of debtors prisons, to be called safety centers, housed in trailers, secured with fences and contracted security forces, spread across the country. Can’t you see the productivity from all those wageless employment contracts.
September 15th, 2005 at 10:40 pmNot exactly on topic, but related — anyone notice how most of the displaced victims of the flood have been relocated to “red” states? So, when elections roll around, their votes will be lost in the preponderance of Christian Conservative Republicans in those states.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:29 pmJust my cynical thought process.
Now he wants to “Confront Poverty”?!?!
I nearly choked when he said that. The Bush Doctrine of “The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Poorer” has held true…
September 16th, 2005 at 9:04 am#4 – Marie, your liberal pessimism is showing – why not think optimistically, “Mmmm, maybe we can swing those evil red counties OUR way by diluting the vote with a bunch of “program dependent” blue minority voters!!!” And if THAT doesn’t work, we can call Revs. Jesse and Al and scream “voter fraud”!!! Where are their churches anyway? Look for the opportunities!
September 17th, 2005 at 3:05 pmMighty- YOU are why blogs rule!!! Very funny stuff….
October 21st, 2005 at 4:07 pmMarie- The reason the displaced residents were placed in Red states may be two fold: #1 the red states comprise 99.8% of the land mass #2 the blue states are generally weirder and might frighten an otherwise sensible southern person.
October 21st, 2005 at 4:25 pmTed Williams
I think you are absolutely on track here!
July 25th, 2008 at 12:48 pm