i thought george's speech last night was one of his better performances. to hear him utter the word poverty surprised me a bit. he spoke of grand ambitions, yet failed to mention where the money would come from. too bad he's allowed our deficit and debt to soar to historic numbers due to his irresponsible tax breaks and misguided war in iraq. remember when he arrived in office in 2001 with a $2 trillion surplus? too bad we hadn't fixed social security and dealt with our nation's poverty then.