The NYT doesn't get it...

in an editorial from today...

[T]he Bush administration pays lip service to the goal of "ending chronic homelessness" - while undermining the very programs that keep poor people from ending up in the streets. The Housing and Urban Development Department is proposing unreasonable cuts in federal subsidies, which would make it harder for underfinanced housing authorities to keep their developments livable and safe. And a proposal in Congress would make it harder for the poor to get rental subsidies from Section 8, the public-private partnership that underwrites rents for nearly two million of the country's low-income families and encourages builders to develop affordable housing.

urging this administration to show compassion for the poor is an incredible waste of breath... the guiding ideology of bush, rove and the other theocratic robber-barons is that if you're poor it's because you're lazy and no damn good...

the strategy of this crowd from day one has been to divert money to the wealthy through massive tax cuts, drive the budget deficit into the stratosphere, hack the national budget into kindling (to address the deficit, of course), and wipe every social program out of existence... the notion of a "social contract" between the governors and the governed that recognizes the value of good, honest hard work and citizenship in making the country run is now, like the geneva convention, "quaint..."

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