On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:12:40 -0500, "Dirk Diggler" <dirk@dirk.org>
wrote:
>And I thought that Bush was cutting spending to the poor and all these
>welfare people were starving. Seems like a bunch of hooey... We're
>spending more on the poor and unfortunate that ever before. And poverty
>continues to rise. But liberals like to throw money at problems that they
>know will never be solved - keeps their voter base up...
>
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...021301091.html
>
The article and your post have very little in common. You talk about
food stamps and welfare/poverty while this article talks about all
entitlement programs including social security.
Of course more money today goes to social security than during the
cold war--there are more retired people today. Duh.