Despite Nicholas Kristof's Op-Ed in the NYT proclaiming that the Christian Right holds the moral high ground on many traditonal liberal-like human rights issues,the New York Times reports that,

"the Bush administration has reduced its contributions to global food aid programs aimed at helping millions of people climb out of poverty.

With the budget deficit growing and President Bush promising to reduce spending, the administration has told representatives of several charities that it was unable to honor some earlier promises and would have money to pay for food only in emergency crises like that in Darfur, in western Sudan. The cutbacks, estimated by some charities at up to $100 million, come at a time when the number of hungry in the world is rising for the first time in years and all food programs are being stretched."

'Cause you know there's a tax gap and it's hard to be a compassionate conservative when you've given tax breaks to fat cats who are due. So we're not going to be helping people to feed themselves, but instead only provide emergency food-aid. Sounds a lot like that welfare-type thing that Radical Republicans like to bash so much.
posted by Idle Crank at 12/22/2004 10:02:00 PM