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Congrats. This is the dumbest sheeot I have heard all day.
Here are some facts for you, but if you are the typical liberal then facts mean nothing to you:
** Halfway through President Clinton's tenure in office in 1996, the poverty rate was 13.7 percent. Halfway through President Bush's tenure, the rate is 12.7 percent, a full point lower.
** In 1996, the Clinton budget allotted $191 billion for poverty entitlements. That was 12.2 percent of the budget and a whopping amount of money. That's why Bill Clinton was called the first black president by some.
However, the Bush 2006 budget allots a record shattering $368 billion for poverty entitlements, 14.6 percent of the entire budget, a huge increase over Clinton's spending on poverty entitlements.
Yea Bush is in it just for his buddies. Now Liberals back up what you spit out with some facts.
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Uh oh, O'Reilly alert!
Actually, I cannot dispute your facts - as far as I know they are entirely correct.
I can even prove they are correct:
Clinton:
1993...... 15.1
1994...... 14.5
1995...... 13.8
1996...... 13.7
1997...... 13.3
1998...... 12.7
1999...... 11.9
2000...... 11.3
Bush:
2001...... 11.7
2002...... 12.1
2003...... 12.5
2004...... 12.7
See pretty picture
here.
Or more information
here.
Indeed, we should be quite proud that poverty is steadily rising even though we are throwing
record shattering amounts of cash at it.