"DBCoop" <IAMNOT@HOME.COM> wrote in message
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> 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.
Food stamps and welfare are not entitlements?
I think so.
DD