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Jesus of Nazareth...Wrong on Social Services...Wrong for America
"WORKING...AND poor." Sounds like a headline from Socialist Worker. But it was a cover story in the bosses’ mouthpiece, Business Week magazine last month--a recognition of the scandal that neither George Bush nor his Democratic "opponents" have much to say about.
Wealthy dine on Bush's bread; working poor go hungry
At the very time that the Bush Administration is pushing for somewhere between a half trillion and three quarters of a trillion dollars in new tax cuts targeted primarily to wealthy Americans, it's also thinking about getting tough with working poor families who get back a total of about $32 billion in earned income tax credits (EITC).
With...one footnote, congressional Republicans and the Bush White House that supervised every detail of their final work, families with roughly 12 million children who work for the minimum wage and a little more got intentionally shafted.
This is the Fight of Our Lives