President Bush: The stealth humanitarian (Commentary)

[leQ]

Whether it’s helping get the homeless into homes, fighting malaria and other diseases in Africa or spending on U.S. poverty programs, President Bush is breaking records — and getting no credit for it.

You might say he’s a Stealth humanitarian, someone whose heartlessness is constantly preached while his accomplishments are persistently ignored.

But then you stumble on the Bush ambition regarding chronic homelessness. He wants to end it, and the consequences of administration efforts to date are amazing — significant percentage drops in such cities as San Francisco, Philadelphia, Miami, Dallas, Denver and Portland, Ore.

The basic idea of the program being endlessly advocated by a Bush appointee, Philip Mangano, is for cities to combine federal, local and charitable funds to put the chronically homeless into their own apartments and assist them with social services instead of dealing with them piecemeal so they too often end up in jails, hospitals and other facilities. As various news accounts explain, you save money this way, but here’s the real gold: You save lives.

http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2007/01/11/opinion/doc45a5bd99d5f6b758608228.txt

i find it difficult to see the word humanitarian being used to describe bush. it jus doesn't compute. what do you think? leave a comment - compressor our bush apologistr extraordainare would love to hear from you.

[CrispyQ]

1. I didn't see any sources in this guys commentary other than

a reference to the Heritage Foundation. :eyes: