Re: [TruthTalk] Republican or Democrat

[Terry Clifton]

Hughes Jonathan wrote: Hi Izzy,   Nice joke.  Jokes and stories are nice when one wants to avoid facts.   The facts:  More people are below the poverty line since Bush took office than before.  More poverty, more homeless.  This is what conservative compassion is all about.   An estimated 850 000 people are homeless in the United States on any given night, according to advocates for the homeless. About 45 million people were without health care insurance for part of 2003, according to a US Census Bureau report published last week. The report showed that since Bush took office in 2001, 4,3 million people have fallen below the poverty line. That brought the number of people living in poverty in 2003 to 35,9 million, or 12,5 percent of the population. Several thousand protesters representing groups called Still We Rise and Housing Works marched to within two blocks of Madison Square Garden accusing Republicans of ignoring the plight of the poor and those living with HIV and Aids. "Today's march is about the reality of the Republicans' compassion agenda," said Michael Kink of Housing Works. "They talk the talk but they do not walk the walk on AIDS, homelessness and poverty. We have more AIDS, more homelessness and more extreme poverty than we did four years ago." =================================================== Poverty can be traced to dishonesty and greed on the part of employers, or it can be traced to lazyness on the part of an indiviidual.   Most people who have AIDS cannot blame the republicans and should not hold government responsible for their poor moral standards.  Most homeless, including some relatives of mine, fall into a somewhat similar situation.  If you don't work, you don't eat.  I read that last line somewhere.  Oh yeah, the Bible. mean spirited Terry