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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (522443)	1/11/2004 10:47:42 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Edwards is the super rich. What has he done personally to change the lot of the poor? Certainly he keeps much more than he will need to sustain himself.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (522443)	1/11/2004 11:17:18 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

More secular paganism from Edwards. For thousands of years men have lived in what you or others define as poverty. God created the world and that state of affairs. So Edwards is saying God is immoral. Now if one says there is no God then a morality of survival of the fittest is perfectly appropriate. And 35 million Americans living in poverty while the super rich get anything they want anytime they want it is simply natural. LOL I do wonder if motor mouthing fools like Edwards have any concept of poverty. Well his being afflicted with a poverty of intellect suggests not.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (522443)	1/11/2004 11:43:59 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

35 million Americans living in poverty Thanksgiving Brings Good News on Poverty by Robert Rector and Kirk Johnson November 26, 2003 As we gather with family and friends to celebrate our blessings at Thanksgiving, we should remember those who are less fortunate -- whose plates are often empty. But our compassion can make us easy prey for those who would have us believe the number of Americans living in real poverty is rising. The good news this Thanksgiving is that real poverty continues to decline steadily in our nation. Of course, the latest report from the Census Bureau claims that nearly 35 million Americans lived in poverty last year. But when we look at the living conditions of the people deemed poor, many surprises emerge. Most of us associate the word "poverty" with destitution. We assume that those who are poor can’t provide their families with nutritious food, clothing and reasonable shelter. But only a small number of the 35 million persons the Census Bureau classifies as "poor" fit that description. Real material hardship does occur, of course. But most poor people live in conditions that would have been judged fairly comfortable just a few generations ago. Consider: Forty-six percent of all poor households own their homes. The typical "poor" home is a three-bedroom house with one and a half baths, a garage and porch or patio. More than three out of every four poor households have air conditioning. Thirty years ago, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning. Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two thirds have more than two rooms per person. The average poor American has more living space than the average individual in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens and other European cities. Nearly three quarters of poor households own a car; 30 percent own two or more. Nearly all have a color television; more than half own two or more. Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or "dish" TV. Almost three quarters own microwave ovens. More than half have a stereo, and a third have an automatic dishwasher. As a group the poor are far from being chronically undernourished. The average consumption of protein, vitamins and minerals is virtually the same for poor and middle-class children. Poor children actually consume more meat than higher-income children do and have average protein intakes 100 percent above recommended levels. Most poor children today are in fact super-nourished, with the average male growing up to be one inch taller and 10 pounds heavier that the GIs who stormed the beaches of Normandy in World War II. Some poor families do experience hunger. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 13 percent of poor families and 2.6 percent of poor children are hungry at some point during the year. In most cases, thankfully, their hunger is short-term. Almost 85 percent say their families have "enough" food to eat, while only 3 percent say they "often" don’t have enough to eat. Overall, the typical poor American has a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator, stove, clothes washer and dryer and a microwave. He has two color televisions with a cable or satellite hookup, a VCR or DVD player and a stereo. He can obtain medical care. His home’s in good repair and isn’t over-crowded. By his own report, his family isn’t hungry. In short, this individual’s life, while far from opulent, hardly conjures the images of poverty often conveyed by the press, poverty advocates and politicians. The best news is that poverty can be readily reduced still further, particularly among children. There are two main reasons American children are poor: their parents don’t work much, and their fathers are absent. The typical poor family is supported by only 800 hours of work a year (16 hours a week). If work in each family were raised to 2,000 hours per year -- the equivalent of one adult working 40 hours per week year-round -- nearly 75 percent of poor children would be lifted above the poverty line. As for those absent fathers: Nearly two thirds of poor children reside in single-parent homes and each year another 1.3 million children are born out-of-wedlock. If poor mothers married the fathers of their children, almost three quarters of these children would immediately be lifted out of poverty. Yet our welfare system perversely remains hostile to both work and marriage. Major programs such as Food Stamps, public housing, and Medicaid continue to reward idleness and penalize marriage. If Congress manages to change that, poverty will plummet -- and we’ll have even more to be thankful for heritage.org

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (522443)	1/11/2004 12:20:40 PM
From: John Chen	Respond to of 769670

Kenneth,re:"Bush..super rich". 60 minutes tonight.. O'neil .. fun time.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (522443)	1/11/2004 12:47:57 PM
From: jim-thompson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

The liberal news media does not want you to read the following story. January 6, 2004 > > > >At the Foot of the Cross - A Story You Haven't Heard > > > >Angel Tree, our Prison Fellowship program for prisoners' children, is > >one of the great unheralded volunteer outreaches in America. Over the > >Christmas holidays these past few weeks, approximately 100,000 > >volunteers delivered Angel Tree gifts to more than 525,000 children of > >inmates. > > > >You didn't read about this in the newspapers, nor would I expect that > >you should. It's not really that newsworthy that Christians help people > >in need. But there are two of our volunteers, who delivered forty > >presents, that I think you should have read about but didn't. For > >reasons best known to themselves, the media ignored the fact that two of > >the volunteers were President and Mrs. George Bush. And they delivered > >gifts to forty inner-city kids in a church basement three days before > >Christmas. > > > >President and Mrs. Bush arrived at three-o'clock, Monday, December 22, > >at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia. Now, presidents > >don't move anywhere without a great deal of fuss. The police were out, > >the roads blocked, and Secret Service were roaming around the church. > >And when the president arrived, he was accompanied not only by his own > >team, but also by a pool of reporters, forty or so members of the press. > >For ten minutes they popped their flashbulbs, scribbled their notes, and > >then were ushered out. > > > >I remember from my days with President Nixon what photo opportunities > >are: Get the picture and leave. So I thought the Bushes would shortly > >depart, but they didn't. They stayed long after the cameras were gone to > >greet every child, to have their picture taken with them, their mothers, > >and their grandmothers, to talk with them, and to ask questions. Though > >the press didn't report it, I noticed that both the president and Mrs. > >Bush talked to the Hispanic children in Spanish. > > > >Just before the president left, I introduced him to Al Lawrence, a > >member of our staff. I told the president that I had met Al more than > >twenty years ago in a prison. Jesus had got hold of Al's life, and he's > >been working for us ever since. Then I told the president that Al's son > >was now a freshman at Yale. At that point the president stopped, > >exclaimed, "We're both Yale parents," and threw his arms around Al > >Lawrence-an African-American ex-offender being embraced by the president > >of the United States in a church basement. The ground is indeed level at > >the foot of the cross. > > > >I tell you this story because it's a wonderful Christmas story, and you > >probably haven't heard it. With all those reporters who crowded into > >that basement, the visit resulted in almost universal media silence. > > > >I suppose there are many explanations for this, but I'll offer mine. The > >president is a Christian who really cares for "the least of these," who > >does this not for photo ops, but because he's genuine. That is something > >that his detractors in the media simply can't handle. Conservatives > >caring for the poor? Never. It dashes the stereotypes. > > > >But surely Christians ought to be rejoicing that the most powerful man > >in the world and his wife, a couple of days before Christmas, had a > >wonderful visit with the most powerless people in our society. > > > >After all, that echoes the Christmas message, doesn't it? The most > >powerful came to be with the least powerful to give us hope. > > > > > >Visit the Breakpoint website at > >http://link.crosswalk.com/UM/T.asp?A1.25.17666.2.206909 > > > > > >FREE Christian Book > >http://l.salemweb.net/swnoffer0203/UMBP/