DOG and PONY SHOW – GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION WON’T DISCUSS ROOT CAUSES OF HOMELESSNESS -- the simple palpitating truth of the matter

DOG and PONY SHOW – GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION WON’T DISCUSS ROOT CAUSES OF HOMELESSNESS

See below. The simple palpitating truth of the matter is that homelessness skyrocketed under President Ronald Wilson Reagan due to his Administrations’ cynical pressures on Administrative Law Judges in the Social Security Administration to rule against disability claimants. Rep. Barney Frank said ALJs ruling too often for the disabled were sent to "remedial judging school."

That was not discussed last night.

Nor was the “gigantic sucking sound” of good-paying jobs exported due to NAFTA and other multilateral trade agreements passed on the “fasttrack.”

Nor was the phrase "structural unemployment" uttered once.

For all of the wonderful words last night, one waited for an apology – but evidently being a Repug means “never having to say you’re sorry.” Claiming credit for local innovations, George W. Bush’s homelessness interagency group meets only four (4) times a year.

Not one public question was allowed.

Last night, a group of twelve (12) from the dog and pony show dined at Gypsy Cab afterwards, including the federal guest speaker from Atlanta, St. Augustine Mayor JOSEPH LEROY BOLES, JR., Chief Operating Officer JOHN REGAN, St. Augustine Beach Mayor CHARLES O'Brien, et al.

One would have approached these august personages and asked about root causes, if one thought they would have been up to such a discussion. Instead, their approach was, "let 'em eat Power Point presentations."

In the words of the little boy at the Superdome in New Orleans during Katrina, that’s “pitiful.”