Reply #20: "After all, the goal is prosperity" [View All]

[theHandpuppet]

You have to wonder how some of these BushCo slimebags can even make pronouncements like that without getting struck by a bolt of lightning!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/19/AR2006071901735.html

Bush's Poverty Talk Is Now All but Silent
Aiding Poor Was Brief Priority After Katrina

By Michael A. Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 20, 2006; Page A04

Poverty forced its way to the top of President Bush's agenda in the confusing days after Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast and flooded New Orleans. Confronted with one of the most pressing political crises of his presidency, Bush, who in the past had faced withering criticism for speaking little about the poor, said the nation has a solemn duty to help them.

"All of us saw on television, there's . . . some deep, persistent poverty in this region," he said in a prime-time speech from New Orleans's Jackson Square, 17 days after the Aug. 29 hurricane. "That poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America. We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action."

As it happened, poverty's turn in the presidential limelight was brief. Bush has talked little about the issue since the immediate crisis passed, while pursuing policies that his liberal critics say will hurt the poor. He has publicly mentioned domestic poverty six times since giving back-to-back speeches on the issue in September. Domestic poverty did not come up in his State of the Union address in January, and his most recent budget included no new initiatives directed at the poor.

Tony Snow, the president's press secretary, said Bush is unlikely to invoke poverty when he addresses the national convention of the NAACP today, and instead will focus on opportunities available to everyone. "After all, the goal is prosperity," Snow said....

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