The Right to Live with Dignity

On Friday, a woman in Florida went hungry. Hundreds protested and sent letters to Congress. Congressional leaders became so enraged that they have called a special vote to ensure that this woman is provided with food. Congressional intervention is necessary, they argue, because access to food is her “constitutional right.”
On Friday, a woman in Florida went hungry. No one protested. The Senate was so indifferent to her and her family’s hunger that they voted down a measure that would have prevented $2.8 billion in cuts to the Food Stamp program over the next five years.

While Congress has spent the past few days making heroic efforts to restore the feeding tubes to Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who has been in a vegetative state for 15 years, they have also been debating the federal budget. While Terri Schiavo’s case has sparked passion about her right to live—and her right to health care and food—there is no passion for the millions of Americans who go hungry every day or the millions more who lack access to basic health care.

President Bush has cut his vacation short to return to Washington so he can sign into law legislation that would restore Terri Schiavo’s feeding tubes. Last month, President Bush proposed a budget to Congress that would cut the Food Stamp program by $500 million over the next five years, leaving more than 300,000 low-income people without food assistance every month.

The proposed budget includes large cuts in federal programs providing food, housing, education, and medical assistance to low-income families. It includes cuts in funding to those with HIV/AIDS by $550 million over the next five years. It ends Housing and Urban Development’s 30-year pledge to produce accessible supportive housing for people with disabilities. It will leave 670,000 fewer individuals on the Woman, Infant, Child food program by 2010.

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0323-21.htm

The hypocrisy is so evident, decent people should be appalled and ashamed of how they continue to support the evil policies of this administration. For anyone who still supports this man's policies, all I can say is .... what is wrong with you?

:kick: & :cry: