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HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THIS "LIVING IN POVERTY" NONSENSE

Get out your hanky...it's time once again to feel sorry for all of the supposed Americans "living in poverty."  The Census Bureau reported yesterday that the number of Americans living in poverty has risen.  As a matter of fact, they are saying that 35.8 million people are now living below the poverty line.  On top of that, they're now saying 12.9 million children are living in poverty.  Quick...we must elect The Poodle! How can this be allowed to stand!  Wait a minute!  Forget The Poodle ... let's rush Hillary in there!  She cares so much about the children! More money must be confiscated from those that earned it in order to "lift people out of poverty."  Nonsense.

Actually, the truth is, there is no poverty in America.  If you get beyond the biased media's hysterical headlines, let's apply a little common sense.  First of all, according to the government, you could have a net worth of over ten million dollars, own two houses, have three cars and because you only earned a few thousand dollars in income last year, you would be living in poverty. Does Terreeeeza Heinz-Kerry draw a salary? Maybe she's living in poverty too.

It's a fact, folks.  When the government measures poverty they're only concerned with paychecks, not with what you have already earned.  The government doesn't look at your bank accounts, your balance sheets or that jewelry hanging around your neck.  Only your paychecks.

Let's say you are a remarkably successful stock broker.  You decide to take a year off and travel the country in your $800,000 Blue Bird Wanderlodge motor home.  Guess what?  For that year, our government says you're "living in poverty."

Why is it so?  It started back during the LBJ "Great Society" years.  Johnson wanted to create a method of measuring poverty that would provide a continued excuse for expanding the scope and nature of Johnson's war on poverty programs.  That method of measuring poverty -- by only counting income -- is still alive today, and it is still being used by government hacks as a reason for ever more government and ever more government spending.

The average American defined as "poor" by the federal government enjoys a higher standard of living than the average European; not the average poor European ... the average European.  It's a scam, folks.  A scam to enable more government.  If a person has a roof over their head, food in their cupboard, a television set, a washer and dryer, a microwave,  air conditioning and a car.  Sorry folks, but that ain't poverty.  Just more leftist fantasies and imagined "emergencies" designed to create the need for more government.  With very rare exception, there is not a single person living in so-called "poverty" in America whose own decisions have not led to their situation.

Poverty is a choice.  It's a behavioral disorder.  Poverty, my friends, is a mental disease.

YEP...IT WAS ISLAMIC TERRORISTS

As predicted, the Russians now believe Islamic terrorists blew up the two airliners on Tuesday, killing 89 people.  Actually ... the Russkis are saying that it was "Chechnyan rebels."  For some reason Russia seems to be poisoned by the politically correct virus that prevents one from identifying these murderers for what they are .... ISLAMIC terrorists.

A message was posted on a militant Muslim website today.  The peaceful religion of Islam strikes again.  The website claiming responsibility says that five hijackers brought down each plane. Sound familiar?  It's the same war on terror we're fighting, just now the Russians are getting hit. Welcome to the big leagues.

No matter where they are in the world, Islamic terrorists are interested in pursuing one goal and one goal only: to kill as many innocent non-Muslims as possible.  That includes you, me, the Russians and anybody else.  They want to murder anyone who does not see things exactly as they do.  They dream of the destruction of Western secular society and of a world once again dominated by the Islamic religion and culture. 

Did this shock you out of your nap?  Rub your eyes, folks ... the war is still on.  This week it was Russia.  Tomorrow it could be a shopping center in Dayton or a movie theatre in Tampa. 

When President Bush says we are engaged in a global war on terror, this is what he is talking about.  These vicious bastards will strike any time and any place.  The question is...do we have the backbone to do what is necessary to eliminate them?  Are we going to elect a president who will find them, fight them and kill them --- with or without the permission of the United Nations -- or a president who will take the path of appeasement?

Less than nine weeks.

BUSH ... NO CHAMPION OF FREE SPEECH

But then again neither is John Kerry.

President Bush has enlisted the services of Arizona's Saintly Senator John McCain to "go after" the so-called 527 groups, that is the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, Moveon.org, etc.  The President wants to shut them down.  That's right, he wants to take away their (and by extension, your) right to free speech.  Welcome to The United States of America in 2004.

Question:  Would the White House please issue a statement telling us just which constitution he promised to preserve and protect when he took the oath of office?  Evidently it wasn't ours.  Ours, after all, says something about free speech. 

George Bush wants to make it illegal for you to pool your resources with some other folks who share your views and express those views through the media.  Think about this.  You join a group promoting tax reform.  One of the presidential candidates supports your cause, the other does not.  You want to run ads promoting your tax reform idea and encouraging voters to support your cause by supporting your candidate.  This is the very essence of political free speech ... and both George Bush and John Kerry want to make your actions illegal. 

There is no scandal in the 2004 presidential election greater than this ... the candidates from both of the major political parties teaming together to deny your freedom to effectively speak out politically.  How serious is it?  Kerry and Bush approve of placing you in jail if you dare to express your political feelings in a way not approved by them.

If these two enemies of our Constitution succeed then we will be at a point where only candidates and those in control of the media will be allowed to express political viewpoints through the mass media in the months leading up to a presidential election. 

The founding fathers are on a spit.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Did you know that Sad Max Cleland is actually sucking down $136,000 a year of taxpayer's money as a Bush political appointee?  If he had one ounce of class and honor he would resign.

Imagine if the amount of money you received on payday was the full amount.  That's right, 100% of your paycheck in your pocket.  Do I have your attention?  Good...now read about the Fair Tax plan in my latest Townhall column.

The Imperial Federal Government will now take over airport screening.  If you thought airport security was inept and lax now, get ready for it to get a whole lot worse.  You could always get your own airplane, or walk, or drive.

This is just becoming too easy....another Kerry whopper has been unearthed.  This time, it seems The Poodle says he recalls being in Vietnam when he heard of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.  The problem?  Kerry wasn't in Vietnam yet.

So let me get this straight...a woman claims William Kennedy Smith raped her 5 years ago, and she is just now filing a civil lawsuit?  On top of that, she continued to work for him and even had consensual sex with him afterward....riight. Sorry lady, go sell crazy some place else...we're all stocked up here.

The lawyers working for both the Kerry campaign and the outside 527 groups continue to get a pass from the media, and they refuse to resign.

It wasn't just The Poodle...other soldiers in Vietnam went shopping for Purple Hearts so they could get three of them and get out of the war zone.  Martin Fackler explains.

The broadcast networks all rewarded the Kerry campaign for their stunt of sending Max Cleland down to President Bush's ranch. The Media Research Center analyzes the bias.

Bush has now pulled ahead in the latest polls...and the liberals are coming unglued.  Charles Krauthammer says the Democrats can't believe they might lose to this guy.

So how's come the Swiftees are going after The Poodle so hard?  It's because of his anti-war activities upon his return from Vietnam.  Jeff Jacoby explains.

A retired Rear Admiral has broken his silence about the incident which led to John Kerrys' first Purple Heart.  He says it was self-inflicted, and Robert Novak has the interview.

We've now had three television ads from the Swiftboat Vets and one best-selling book, so David Limbaugh says it's time to look at the scorecard.

There is a condition sweeping University campuses whereby people get offended by the free expression of thought.  Professor Mike Adams is there with the diagnosis.

In an open letter to The Poodle, Oliver North breaks down the current situation over his Vietnam service veteran to veteran.  Don't  miss this one.

Imagine if World War II were being fought today....how would the media report it?  Mona Charen says John Kerry had a hand in making American liberalism what it is today.

A bag of rubbish that was part of a Tate Britain work of art has been accidentally thrown away by a cleaner.

Any dog owners looking for a house out there? We've found one for you! Clearly dogs enjoy the backyard here.

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