This Is Sickening.......

[Corey_Baker08]

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites)'s budget will propose slashing grants to local law enforcement agencies and cutting spending for environmental protection, American Indian schools and home-heating aid for the poor, The Associated Press learned Saturday.

Bush molded the roughly $2.5 trillion spending plan for 2006 as a response to a string of record federal deficits, and is sends it to Congress on Monday.


The budget, the toughest he has written since entering the White House four years ago, seeks about half the increase for school districts in low-income communities he requested last year and a slight reduction for the National Park Service.


Many proposals face an unclear fate in Congress, where members of both parties are sure to defend favorite initiatives. Democrats blame the cuts on the tax reductions Bush has enacted and say that other items his budget omits — a Social Security (news - web sites) overhaul and costs for wars in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites) — will only make matters worse.


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[The Sheik]

1. What the...

"I stand with the president that we need to eliminate wasteful spending and we need to look through all the programs,"

Now you tell me whats wasteful about lawenforcement funding, boy.

[TomClash]

2. Let's pay for Social Security "Reform"

by cutting home heating supplements to old people. Maybe they'll freeze to death.

[aquart]

3. I thought they already tossed the heating programs.

State governments still haven't faced what that's costing them. They let the bills go then the poor have to apply for "emergency" money. They have no other way to do it.

[roguevalley]

4. This is what people need to see and have happened to wake up.

I personally feel a lot of people have all ready but were hoping against hope that things would work out. People are going to die and
people are going to suffer but Bush and the repugs friends are going to keep their tax cuts. this is the fodder Dean needs to flame the fires in this country. Unfortunately.

[Calvinist Basset]

5. That bastard.

How can any sane person support this bullshit?

[skids]

7. Who says Americans are sane?

Why should they care about funding for social programs and protecting the environment, when the rapture is just around the corner?

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41&ItemID=7158

What a complete abuse of religion as a way to rationalize a lazy and self-serving unwillingness to participate in society. :puke:

[rucky]

6. At least we can all feel safe from terra.

:eyes:

[fasttense]

8. It's nice to know that the rich still keep their tax cuts.

In a way, the cold poor, Cops, and American Indian schools are supporting the wealthy CEOs and billionaires. Nice to know.

[Im with Rosey]

9. Time to get the word out!

The important thing here is that we start RIGHT NOW to write as many letters as possible to as many Senators and Representatives as we can think of. We can't allow this idiot to COMPLETELY destroy us. It has been proven that with encouragement, some people will challenge this moron, Senator Boxer comes to mind. We need to start now. Even the brain-challenged repigs don't want their houses to burn down because of cuts to firefighters. Many repigs represent farming communities, they should understand that cuts that impact farmers might impact their job security. The important thing is to get the word out and write as many letters as possible.

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