@slade

Boiled down to essence. Social engineering.
The one bill that Obama has before Congress is a request for humanitarian aid to fight poverty in Africa.

That depends. Bush is admired in Africa because no administration did as much for Africa as his.

“You don’t elevate a poor man from poverty by giving him fish, but by teaching him how to fish.”

That is the basic intent of packages provided by Bush administration. It not always works as it should, because private property rights aren’t sufficiently enshrined in African countries’ laws.

Liberal modus operandi is to give to that poor man fish, enough that he survives, but not enough for him to trade the excess for something else. In summary–the goal is to create dependency. They are as evil as their token of nastiness–Monsanto.