Our Christmas gift to the world

The Bush administration recently made cuts in the U.S.'s global food aid programs that help people overcome poverty. Bush promised to reduce spending, and now, several charitable organizations have gotten the word that we won't be keeping all of our food aid commitments.

The cuts, which may be as high as $100 million, have eliminated programs that help people with farming, education, and health, and the administration says that direct money for food can be counted on only in famine emergencies.

Naturally, with the deficit growing as it is, programs must be cut. But there is something not right about the richest nation in the world using billions of its dollars to blow up a country and then saying "Oops...we haven't much money left to help the world's poor." Of course, there's also something wrong with the richest nation in the world not feeding its own poor.