Letter: Bush neglecting war on poverty
Friday, Aug. 29, 2003 | 9:32 a.m.
Is the Bush administration avoiding the real war that should be fought -- the war on poverty? Thirty-three million U.S. residents, including 12 million children ages 1 to 6, are now living in poverty.
President Bush is handling our economy by giving tax breaks to the wealthiest 1 percent of the population and squandering the healthy surplus inherited from the Clinton administration,
The federal deficit is more than $450 billion and 9.4 million people are unemployed, with the numbers sure to grow. This is totally unacceptable. We as a nation should go back to President Johnson's campaign and fight the true war here in America, the war on poverty.
JOHN MARCHESE
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