WHAT IS BUSH DOING ABOUT AMERlCAN POVERTY?

Question

NOTHING?

Answer 1

Why good grief.........Mr. Bush is doing all he can!!

He is plunging them deeper into despair and poverty with each passing day!

I hardly call that "NOTHING".

Answer 2

Increasing it by taking away programs that help people in need. He has also taken way programs from the middle class, and single parents. He has made it a lot harder for people in those social classes to pay for higher education, thus making it harder to get a better job.

Poverty is not always a choice, and something it has nothing to do with how many children you have. Some people experience hardships, or loss in their family that cuases them to go into debt. A government is responsible to help those citizens as a way of maintianing structure in society.

Bush has done nothing but stratified the layers betweeen the ultra rich and impovereshed. This country is a lot worse off with him in power.

Answer 3

Our country has done a great job of almost completely eliminating the true poverty, only to find people redefining it to include more people. As the standard of living in this country continues to increase, people will adjust their definition of "poverty."

I PERSONALLY know a family who has 4 TVs, Satellite, several DVD players & more than enough to eat (the whole family is overweight.)
They are "impoverished" because they "can't afford nice clothes, nice cars (they have old cars & hand-me-downs) & other things this modern society now considers necessity.

I think it is not right to use the same word, "poverty", to discribe the family living in a mobile home, buying clothes at garage sales, & eating simple food, like beans & rice, or Spaggetti & meat sauce. This type of family would be considered well-to-do in many places in Mexico! I prefer the phrase "disadvantaged." They need help, but we shouldn't try to act like they are on the same level with those dying of starvation in Africa!

Answer 4

I know that he has talked about "faith-based initiatives" but to me that is a fancy way of saying, let's leave it to the churches to take care of the poor.

Some people may feel that churches are hypocritical for not doing this, but most churches do have some sort of a ministry, outreach and/or offering that are taken up for this issue. And almost every week a pastor gets a call to help someone who is down on their luck.

The churches are doing a lot of these people, but I fear that our President is more concerned with needs of the people in Iraq and ensuring that tax breaks are permanent than helping the people here in the U.S.

Answer 5

Hardly nothing. Name a President in recent memory who has brought poverty into more American homes than President Bush?

Bush cares so about about poverty that he economic plan is set to keep poverty growing long after he leaves office.

He won't be satisfied until every non-white-trash American is neck deep in poverty.

Answer 6

Yeah. No one was living in poverty during in Clintons days.

Answer 7

American Poverty? Your free to be lazy,hooked on drugs,having more children then you can afford, Drink too much. That's not poverty. I don't like my HARD earned tax $$ going to people better able to work then I am.There are plenty of jobs. Sitting @ home getting welfare and food stamps ain't right, unless your too old to work or disabled!

Answer 8

Nothing at all. In fact he wishes to shrink social programs which reduced poverty considerably.

Answer 9

What do you mean nothing? Poverty has been blooming since his reign began. He's been hard at work cutting out the middle class.

Answer 10

Nothing at all. In fact they have in a sence made things worse with that Certifacate of Complentipon crap.