And giving the already wealthy another major tax break makes little sense, except as a fund-raising tactic. Bush's giveaway ignores a simple fact. We have promises to keep, and miles to go before they are met. When welfare was repealed, poor mothers were told they had to go to work but were promised training, health care, child care and help with transportation. Now the welfare rolls are down, but children without health care are up.
Mothers go to work, but have no safe place for their children.
Jobs are available, but poor inner city mothers too often can't afford to get to them. Promises to keep. When the economy was opened up, workers were told their jobs would no longer be secure, but that they would be given income support, training vouchers, a safety net to catch them if their plant shut down. Now, even in a booming economy, we're losing hundreds of thousands of good paying manufacturing jobs every year. Families are displaced, but can't afford training without an income, can't afford to pay their mortgages or to sell homes that have lost their value.