Let Them Eat Cheap Cake Then!
On Aug. 30, the day after the hurricane hit, the Census Bureau released figures showing that the poor had increased by 1.1 million since 2003, to 12.7 percent of the population, the fourth annual increase, with blacks and Hispanics the poorest, and the South remaining the poorest region. Since Bush has been in office, poverty has grown by almost 9 percent. (Under President Clinton, poverty fell by 25 percent.)
[Sidney Blumenthal, "What Didn't Go Right?", Salon.com, 8 September 2005.]
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on Friday, 9 September 2005 at 02.54
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In 2000, the U.S. crossed over, into a twilight zone. We're now in a place where black is white, day is night, "Clear Skies" means more pollution, "No child left behind" means we throw teachers and whole schools over the side, and the end of major combat operations means the casualty count will grow at an accelerating rate for the indefinite future.
Small wonder that compassionate conservatism means people dying for lack of adequate response to a catastrophe and that more people live in poverty so we can have more, and more-comfortable, rich folks than ever before.
If we continue on our present course, Social Security will soon mean "Tough luck, suckahs" and Medicaid will mean wealthier doctors with lots less to do, since fewer people will be able to afford their services.
Rod Serling, please, tell us the show's over.