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Friday, June 10, 2005

But it's worth it if it means the hyper-rich can get more tax cuts, right?
Posted by Jill | 3:20 PM

After all, you too may be a member of their club someday, right?

WRONG.

But here's what Americans are giving up so that Bush can continue to try to increase his penis size by sending young Americans into the Iraq meatgrinder and give more tax cuts to his friends:

The House Appropriations Committee gave initial approval to a domestic-spending bill that would terminate scores of government programs and cut more than $1 billion from current funding for the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services.

Among the accounts hardest-hit are community-services block grants and health-professions programs important for training minorities in medical fields. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would lose 25% of the government support previously promised for the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, and the Republican-controlled panel is proposing to rescind $124 million that Congress approved in the fall for President Bush's community-college initiative to improve workers' skills.

Altogether, 49 government programs, totaling $2.3 billion in this fiscal year, would be killed. A portion of the savings would be reallocated to fund increases in Title I and Pell Grant programs for needy public-school and college students. But on balance, the Education Department's $56 billion-plus budget is effectively frozen, with only a $117 million increase -- the smallest in many years…. within the Health and Human Services budget, funding for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is increased by $515 million over this year. At the same time, community-services block grants and health-professions programs are cut by more than half for a net savings of $569 million.


(Source: WSJ, via Alterman)
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