Senate passes non-binding budget blueprint: Calls for $4.2 TRILLION in cuts to benefits

[cali]

Of course this is nothing but show. Nevertheless, it's an illustration of what they're gunning for- and that they're batshit crazy and cruel.

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Senate Republicans made little of the policies prescribed by their new budget and much of the numbers, which they say show a federal deficit finally disappearing for the first time since 2001. To get there, the budget calls for $4.2 trillion in cuts to benefit programs like Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps over 10 years. Domestic programs at Congress’s annual discretion would be cut by $496 billion below the already tight limits imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011.

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Democrats called attention to the cost reductions required to get to a balanced budget without raising taxes. They include cutting Pell Grant scholarships, either by capping the number of recipients or the benefit amount for each recipient; cutting off health insurance to as many as 27 million people covered by either the president’s health care law or Medicaid; and slicing $600 billion from “income security” programs like school lunches, food stamps, tax credits for the working poor and nutritional assistance to poor mothers.

Democrats dared the new Republican majority to pass the bills that would implement those policies.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/us/politics/senate-along-party-lines-passes-cost-cutting-budget-blueprint.html?_r=0

[haikugal]

1. Isn't the Senate controlled by the Dems? Did I miss something?

Wouldn't be the first time but I think I would have noticed something like this Republican controlled Senate....wtf?!

[cali]

2. solidly controlled by repukes. 2014 election.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Nope.

The Senate is now under the full control of the GOP.

Older Americans tend to have a higher turnout rate than younger Americans in mid term election years like 2014.

These same brilliant Americans decided to hand full control of Congress to a political party that wants to gut their benefits.

Americans aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.

[haikugal]

4. Well shit...

Here I was thinking we still had the Senate...damn...I have no excuse other than medications which I recently stopped taking, guess I still have some catching up to do. Damn! I did vote..I'm in a very red area so it doesn't do much..we did get a Dem Gov...but not senate.

Wow, so will this go through? These people are inhuman.

Well thanks everyone, I'm embarrassed but better informed now.

[Maedhros]

5. Gotta clear up funds

for another 674 military operations in Africa

http://www.thenation.com/article/204145/us-carried-out-674-military-operations-africa-last-year-did-you-hear-about-any-them

as well as dropping Hellfire missiles on innocent civilians (and a few suspected terrorists here and there) in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and probably a dozen other places nobody knows about.