your kind of war - poetry for shrubz

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By Iðunn

 
 
your kind of war, 
isn't it Mr. Bush? 
nice thing about Frozen Sparrowz - 
too frozen for flight 
burdened by poverty 
disenfranchised from society 
bereft of hope 
numbed by not mattering 
and held in place 
by the tyranny 
of your brand-name bootheelz 
they make an easy target 
for your bombz, 
don't they Mr. Bush?
 
 

children of Iraq

www.polskaya.be
www.polskaya.be

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the interesting thing

about Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq is that he can be responsible for not only indiscriminately killing vast numbers of Iraqis who didn't have anything to do with 9/11 and had no reason to hate us and change that emotion permanently, but he could simultaneously try to cut funds for social programs in the U.S. that his voodoo economics hadn't squashed down enough to cover for the expenses of his personal financial windfall, er... I mean war.

among the programs that bush/gop have repetitively tried to cut funding to, ironically, is veteranz benefits for head injuries caused in iraq. :|

linkies:

Republicans To Cut Budget For Treatment Of Troops With War-Related Brain Injuries By Half

and

Center for war-related brain injuries faces budget cut

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homeless with children in america: budgeted out

bush thanks our veterans

www.vawatchdog.org
www.vawatchdog.org
tantek - flickr
tantek - flickr

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D.C.’s new low-income housing project

"In the District of Columbia, two eviction companies employ homeless people at sub-minimum wages to evict tenants from their homes. Street Sense sent homeless people to work undercover as part of an investigation, and found that eviction companies sometimes pay as little as $1.25 per hour for the work:

We had to drive 45 minutes to Crofton ,MD, which is the main office .We exited the bus after waiting another half hour. We stood in line and received our money. We started out at 9:15 and when we got back to D.C. it was 5 p.m. This was my first day and even though it beat working at Ready Staffing, on the average with waiting and driving time I only made around $4.00 an hour.

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The final place was an apartment unit on Irving Street in Northwest. As we arrived a young lady in her early 20s with her daughter, who appeared to be around three or four, was standing in the entrance of the hall pleading with the residence manager for more time. She claimed her grandmother was going to wire the money but the manager told it's too late. The woman started crying and screaming hysterically and her daughter ran back into the apartment. We were ordered to go in and start putting her things on the curb.

As I approached the little girl's room, she was standing inside clutching her dolls. The look on her face was so sad and instantly it reminded me of my daughter when she was that age. Right there and then I walked out and decided this would be my last eviction. I just couldn't do it.

Here I was homeless myself at the time about to make two more people homeless.

Digging deeper, Street Sense interviewed several homeless people who claimed to have helped with evictions, and contacted the two eviction companies who hire homeless workers..."

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