DES MOINES REG: No candidate worries about rising poverty

[Montauk6]

A recent survey shows 38 states have seen child poverty increase from 2000 to 2009. That represents a 2.5 million increase. Researchers conclude these children will likely suffer academically, economically and socially.

At the same time, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a joint interview, said that massive reductions in our military would hurt the United States. “Devastating effects,” they said.

Where does that leave us? More money for the military, less money for the poor. Almost all state governments love those federal military contracts and care little about the poor. Social agencies are being treated like poison ivy.

GOP presidential candidates, except one, won’t touch our military budget or our multiple wars. None are interested in helping poor children. All are part of the corporate world and are interested in power, not poverty.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110828/OPINION04/308280027/-1/AMES/No-candidate-worries-about-rising-poverty

[Bluzmann57]

1. That story gets filed

Under ,"No Shit". It is obvious that no repuke, and few Dems care a whit about impoverished kids or adults for that matter.

[Coyote_Bandit]

2. The poor

sacrifice to fund the military and then volunteer to fight its wars in an effort to get out of poverty.

It's this kind of shit that makes me support reinstituting the draft - with no provisiions to be excluded from mandatory service.

The wars we are fighting now would be long over if rich people were having to see their kids go off to join the military in time of war.

[dkf]

3. Yet the military can be the way to a better life too.