While they suffer, George W. Bush calls himself a "Christian" and a "compassionate conservative" as he showers his rich pals with more incentives to ship American jobs overseas to India and communist China.
Where is the America that our founding fathers envisioned?
Where is the America in which all are created equal, in which all are endowed with the unalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - not just the richest 2 percent?
Where is the America in which the rich get richer, but the poor get richer too?
And why have 200 billion of our tax dollars been spent so far on the quagmire in Iraq, when that money could have been better spent on health care, education, and jobs here at home?
The problem of domestic poverty might never be completely solved, but it can be significantly reduced. However, for that to happen, our leaders must do a serious reality check and adjust their priorities. Our government cannot continue to be a government of, by, and for the wealthy elite and their oil interests. We must resurrect the vision of our founding fathers, in which the United States of America is a government of, by, and for the people. All people.
Until then, the middle class may well continue to shrink, and more and more ordinary Americans may well find themselves struggling to make ends meet.
The change must start now. By the 2006 mid-term elections, it will be too late for so many poor children.
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