Nearly 36 Million Americans Live in Poverty

Some 1.3 million Americans slid into poverty in 2003 as the ranks of the poor rose 4 percent to 35.9 million, with children and blacks worse off than most, the government said on Thursday in a report that fueled Democratic criticism of President Bush.

holy typo

Follow-up on mefi about Bush’s latest accomplishment.

Ya’ll don’t get it, do you? Poor people don’t vote. And he controls all arms of the federal government and has corporate media in his pocket. Add electronic voting systems with no oversight, and, well, ya’ll are being tooled.