First Lady's Initiative Aimed At Providing Stability for Youths

[True_Blue]

PITTSBURGH, March 7 -- President Bush and first lady Laura Bush joined up Monday at a community college here to promote their plan to help at-risk youths, especially those living in big cities, and announce a White House conference on the issue to be held this autumn.

"We have got to make sure that the great strength of our country -- the hearts and souls of our citizens -- are directed in such a way that every child can be saved," Bush told local residents and community leaders at the Community College of Allegheny County. "We are worried about gangs, we are worried about drugs, we are worried about bad choices."

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She detailed the White House plan to make grants to faith-based and other community organizations to encourage stable two-parent households and efforts to cut down on drug use and violence. This is part of a broader White House campaign to give religious groups a larger role in administering social services.

Bush's 2006 budget contains $385 million -- a $150 million increase over the current budget -- for programs to mentor children, help former prisoners and drug addicts, and provide support for young mothers. The fund, which makes grants to community groups, is slated for an increase, even as the White House is proposing cuts in funding for many traditional anti-poverty programs.

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[Cha]

1. Bullshit...it's all 1984 with

those two ..monkey and monkey's wife.

[beam me up scottie]

2. We saw this coming.

Start giving the churches money, sure no problem, we wouldn't want to discriminate. And when we run out of money, we'll just take it from the old programs and all the people who have worked tirelessly, thanklessly because they actually wanted to HELP people, not convert them.
sickening

[hedda_foil]

3. "so that every child can be saved"

Yeah, that's probably exactly what they're up to.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. her husband is responsible for 1500+

youths who are now perfectly stabile.*






* I know they aren't all youths, its hyperbole, so shoot me too.

[bemildred]

5. Who writes this drool? I want to extend my sympathies.

It must be very depressing.

[adarling]

6. gosh i wish she would be as quiet as she was in the first term

then she was at least somewhat respectable, now she is just trash

[yo-yo-ma]

7. what about some jobs?

all of this (well, not really that much, $150 million, considering the amount of inequality and poverty that exists . . . ) is sort of like the bow on a package - looks good for the brief second it's in the media glare but useless. and will be about as funded as, say the AIDS monies promised . . . that is - not at all.

[FlemingsGhost]

8. "Saved."

I can't wait until monkeyboy and his wife are "at-risk."

[Ellen Forradalom]

9. What a headline.

I swear, The Onion just writes itself.

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. "saved" for what? To become cannon fodder in an oil war?

To work as a drone in a defense plant? Do these shits ever wonder why somebody might be attracted to drugs after they consider what the system has to offer as an alternative?

[Erika]

11. The Stepford wife

should just go watch her bimbo daughters play in the sand. I've never seen a more useless rich family than the Bush's.