What kind of country cuts food aid to hungry pregnant women and children in the middle of $$ Crisis?

[midnight]

Seriously. WTF?!

The Republicans are winning the battle over the budget, hands down, even though what they're fighting for is, put simply, immoral. A cut of at least $400 million from a crucial program that puts food on the table for pregnant women and small children. Crippling the EPA. Completely eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, AmeriCorps, and high-speed rail.1

Instead of creating jobs, the Republican budget would destroy 700,000 of them. Our only hope is a public outcry strong enough to stiffen Democrats' spines and cause Republicans to back down.

Sign our petition to Congress and the president, asking them to say "no" to these brutal cuts.

The petition says: "Cutting food aid to hungry women and children in the middle of an economic crisis is wrong. Please oppose the devastating cuts in the Republican budget."

Thanks for all you do.
–Daniel, Joan, Adam Q., Milan, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "House GOP Proposes Cuts to Scores of Sacred Cows," National Journal, February 9, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206023&id=26549-18867618-9331G4x&t=4

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[daggahead]

1. USA! USA! USA!

:sarcasm:

Seriously, though, our priorities are so out of line ...

[HowHasItComeToThis]

9. DUH I'M A TUF REARPUBLICAN'T

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[NC_Nurse]

2. A collapsing one.

The kind where the oligarchs are raiding what funds are left for themselves. They can
leave anytime.

[CountAllVotes]

3. a greedy one

One that values the dollar and endless wars more than the individual.

Sad isn't it. :argh: :argh: :argh:

:kick:

[Turbineguy]

4. A republican paradise

[Kurovski]

24. A Regressive's paradise.

[Rex]

5. One that doesn't believe in its own people anymore.

Or never did, as is the case of the GOP. All they believe in is MONEY.

[JuniperLea]

6. What will they take when everything is gone?

The taking can't stop now... it's pathological. They are addicted to taking. They must be, or they'd leave the babies alone.

:cry:

[WinkyDink]

32. There is a larger world out there, with resources, land, gold, diamonds, ......

[old mark]

7. K&R- A country run by republicans and greedy, evil fucking pigs, although that may be redundant...nt

[jacquelope]

29. Beware of lawsuits

from the pigs of the world! :D

[1776Forever]

8. Here is the list of proposed cuts per the article:

Here is the list of proposed cuts, all compared to President Obama’s FY11 budget request:

· Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies -$30M

· Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy -$899M

· Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability -$49M

· Nuclear Energy -$169M

· Fossil Energy Research -$31M

· Clean Coal Technology -$18M

· Strategic Petroleum Reserve -$15M

· Energy Information Administration -$34M

· Office of Science under the Energy and water spending bill -$1.1B

· Power Marketing Administrations -$52M

· Department of Treasury -$675M

· Internal Revenue Service -$593M

· Treasury Forfeiture Fund -$338M

· GSA Federal Buildings Fund -$1.7B

· ONDCP -$69M

· International Trade Administration -$93M

· Economic Development Assistance -$16M

· Minority Business Development Agency -$2M

· National Institute of Standards and Technology -$186M

· NOAA -$336M

· National Drug Intelligence Center -$11M

· Law Enforcement Wireless Communications -$52M

· US Marshals Service -$10M

· FBI -$74M

· State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance -$256M

· Juvenile Justice -$2.3M

· COPS -$600M

· NASA -$379M

· NSF -$139M

· Legal Services Corporation -$75M

· EPA -$1.6B

· Food Safety and Inspection Services -$53M (FY10)

· Farm Service Agency -$201M

· Agriculture University Research -$246M

· Natural Resource Conservation Service -$46M

· Rural Development Programs -$237M

· WIC -$758M

· International Food Aid grants -$544M

· FDA -$220M

· Land and Water Conservation Fund -$348M

· National Archives and Record Service -$20M

· DOE Loan Guarantee Authority -$1.4B

· EPA ENERGY STAR -$7.4M

· EPA GHG Reporting Registry -$9M

· USGS -$27M

· EPA Cap and Trade Technical Assistance -$5M

· EPA State and Local Air Quality Management -$25M

· Fish and Wildlife Service -$72M

· Smithsonian -$7.3M

· National Park Service -$51M

· Clean Water State Revolving Fund -$700M

· Drinking Water State Revolving Fund -$250M

· EPA Brownfields -$48M

· Forest Service -$38M

· National Endowment for the Arts -$6M

· National Endowment for the Humanities -$6M

· Job Training Programs -$2B

· Community Health Centers -$1.3B

· Maternal and Child Health Block Grants -$210M

· Family Planning -$327M

· Poison Control Centers -$27M

· CDC -$755M

· NIH -$1B

· Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services -$96M

· LIHEAP Contingency fund -$400M

· Community Services Block Grant -$405M

· High Speed Rail -$1B

· FAA Next Gen -$234M

· Amtrak -$224M

· HUD Community Development Fund -$530M

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story, based on a press release from the House Appropriations Committee, mistated the proposed cuts for the Treasury Department, Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Rural Development Programs. Those numbers have been updated.

[Metta]

10. Fascists, that's who. Those who are all for the corporate state and too bad for the rest of us.

They see/want us to be only cannon fodder and slave labor. Happy karma to them all.

[Hawkowl]

11. Obama's common ground

Obama thinks starving women, children and working people is good policy for the sake of bipartisanship. Ok, I'm being a bit sarcastic, but the results of his endless groveling to the Rethuglicans makes my first statement true. He simply can't make hard choices, so he allows others to do his dirty work.

[OmahaBlueDog]

12. Repeat after me - "If you are poor, it is your own fault

Get off your butt and work."

"If you are a single mom, it is your own fault. You should have kept your legs crossed, and once the baby came, you should have done more to keep your man."

"If you have no health insurance, it is your own fault. First, doctor bills wouldn't be so high if we just got rid of health insurance."

"The government cannot help the poor, because the government can do nothing right. With the sole exception of our armed forces, every government entity is exactly like the post office and the DMV --slothful, wasteful, and inefficient. We would all be better off if churches ran the schools and performed all social services. We would be better served if private entities managd our roads, prisons, police departments, and fire departments."

These are the things these idiots take as articles of faith.

[Arugula Latte]

13. Reaganland!

[FiveGoodMen]

14. A "Christian" Nation?

[bobbolink]

15. What country cuts funds for low-income housing when there is a HOMELESSNESS EPIDEMIC?!

Seriously, a few of us have been trying to sound the alarm for years now.. have begged people to take action.

All of this is a result of lack of attention, and refusal to be proactive.

[EFerrari]

16. Vultures. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

17. The same country that allows oil companies to drill on public land and not pay $53 billion in

royalities.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. No link to the petition?

[toddwv]

19. The same country that reduces and tries to eliminate retirement benefits for senior citizens

to fund two unnecessary wars.

[Godhumor]

20. At least for 2 years we don't have to worry about this getting out of the senate

Already voted down once.

I think the Tea Party candidates are going to end up being remembered as a drastic mistake for the Republicans in upcoming election cycles.

[Blue Owl]

21. "God's" country, so I'm told

...not that I believe that bullshit...

[kelly1mm]

22. The kind that apparently has hundreds of millions to burn per month

on a new no fly zone in Libya, along with billions already going out in two other wars ... er ..... "military contingency operations".

Meet the new boss.....

[hansberrym]

23. Economic Decision-Making Is an Activity Subject to Congress’ Commerce Clause Power.

Economic Decision-Making Is an Activity Subject to Congress’ Commerce Clause Power.



This is the new America.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

25. A Republican dominated one

[Kablooie]

26. Just your typical average all American boy. Unfortunately.

[donheld]

27. One that's "Pro-Life"

:grr:

[AsahinaKimi]

28. It makes you wonder what they have to do

In order to make people stand up and get in their faces?

[CommonSensePLZ]

30. One where base wealth-lovers are the only ones with backbone

In its political system.

[WinkyDink]

31. We are NOT in "an economic crisis." We ARE IN "a taxation crisis."