On 4/30/05, JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:32 PM 4/26/2005 -0700, Nick Arnett wrote: > >The same majority party that has been cutting the funding of programs that > >preserve the lives of children is also anti-abortion. > > Which programs are those? I'm sure that you must have a specific > allegation here, right? > > > It should be against the law to abort a fetus, but > >it's okay to let increasing numbers of children live in poverty? > > Increasing???? O.k., child poverty is up since 2000-2001, but it is > remains down significantly from the levels of, oh, Bill Clinton's Presidency. > > JDG > JDG has facts wrong.
President Clinton was the only recent President to preside over a substantial drop in child poverty -- from nearly 23 percent to 16.2 percent. There is a lack of federal data compared to when Clinton was in office on child poverty but I read that Black child poverty under Bush is at it's highest level in 25 years. OK, finally found a report: More grist for campaigns: Poverty in America rises "Critics of the Bush administration, however, pointed to the sharp rise in child poverty - from 16.7 percent to 17.6 percent of the under-18 population - in addition to the more gradual rise in overall poverty (up from 12.1percent of Americans in 2002 to 12.5 percent in 2003). The relatively high rate of poverty - not much different from 35 years ago - is in striking contrast to that of other industrialized nations, says Sheldon Danziger, codirector of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan." http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0827/p10s01-usec.html Not surprised that JDG didn't know that, only us damn liberals worry about things like children in poverty and how the media and the Washington Democrats also ignore the issue. http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept04/Street0908.htm Let me ask JDG - Do you consider a blastocyst a human being with all the rights and responsibilities thereof? -- Gary Denton Easter Lemming Blogs http://elemming.blogspot.com http://elemming2.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
