That would be double plus good.

Back in 2000, when Bush was first running for President and the subject of his 'average' grades came up, several news agencies of course were scrambling to find them or find teachers who taught the Future President.
One station brought on this old as dust Yale Poli Sci teacher who remebered Bush had written a paper endorsing a 2 class system rather than the 3 class system. He wrote that a ruling class and a serving class politically were easier to control. As the Wealthy has Increased by 14%, and those in Poverty have increased 26% since his taking office, it does seem the middle class grows thinner.

living in Walnut Creek, Most of my freinds and neighbors are Republicans. My sister and Brother-in-law are Republicans, my Father was a die-hard Republican. So how did I end up going so wrong? (lol) my Grandparents were Dems and so is my Aunt who for years worked in Social Work. Them and my travels around the globe made me relize that the human race will always strive to be wealthy, and be better, but it is the weakest, those in need that define us. That test us. I Do believe society is a chain that is only as strong as it's weakest link. I DO NOT agree with many freinds and neighbors (and family) that the poor 'get what they deserve in life because they are lazy' etc... Things like AIDS, suffering, disasters, and poverty, who some believe are sent from God to 'punish', I believe are NOT sent from God to punish, but sent from god to test out compassion as a human race. WAY too many fail. Some fail even in the name of God.

I do think though after this coming election in November I will register as an independant though. I am getting tired of the FAR left railroading the party. Stil thinking about that one. If the Moderates continue to leave the Dems and GOP, we will leave those parties to the whack jobs. Probably not a good thing.

^^That's nice. You should join the Republicans because they are for everybody doing better and better whereas the dems would prefer their be a nice small elite class and then a large "head count" that they can control by way of entitlements.

Wow. EVERYBODY doing better and better? I've NEVER gotten that feeling from the GOP. Entitlements seem to be THEIR specialty.

I'm NOT a democrat, BTW.

So why has the poverty rate gone up every year that Bush has been in office?

Bush only gets 4 years when the dems had 60 to fight poverty...that's fair?

I'm not sure I see your point. Could you expand a bit? :)

The war on poverty started with FDR something like 65 years ago. It has cost us trillions upon trillions of dollars but has not caused the poverty rate to go down much at all. It has however managed to destroy many a family unit. Republicans have only had both houses of congress in conjunction with the White House for the last 4.5 years. I submit that the war on poverty is not a war on poverty but is a kinda slavery. Kinda like rescuing a bird with an injured wing and feeding it and keeping it safe from predators but never letting it fly away.

6.6 trillion if I am not mistaken-

6.6 TRILLION for a war on poverty-wow

War on Poverty, War on Drugs, War on Terror - perhaps the "war" model isn't working out for us, maybe we should try something else?