Bush to cut budget….again

Of course, that doesn’t mean cutting funding for the “War on Terror” or even his own pay. That would be absolutely absurd. No, Bush is cutting funding for domestic programs

WASHINGTON - Domestic priorities like federal aid to schools and health research are squeezed under
President Bush’s proposed budget for next year, but funding for the
Pentagon, the war in Iraq and anti-terrorism efforts get impressive increases.

Monday’s budget tome will have a price tag of more than $2.7 trillion. The departments of Education, Commerce, Interior and Energy — will see their budgets, on average, frozen or cut slightly below today’s already austere levels.

Well, so much for “No Child Left Behind”, huh? Don’t worry, veterans, you’re in his sights too.

For example, better off veterans are again being asked make higher co-payments for prescription drugs and pay a new $250 annual enrollment fee for their medical care. Congress has rejected both three years in a row. A new proposal to raise fees on military retirees enrolled in the Pentagon’s Tricare program isn’t likely to fare much better.

Well, only if you’ve got a half-way decent home and income (doesn’t matter if you make the money, your wife can).

Some of Bush’s cuts have received the cold-shoulder from Congress in the past- such as cutting funding for school lunches and medicaid for pregnant women. Luckily for us Congress isn’t likely to take too much action with this new budget (because it’s an election year, folks, and no one wants to piss off the poor voters).

You know, I thought that the Republicans were fiscally responsible and wanted small government. But now I’ve realized that they want our government to spend lots of money to take over the world while leaving our most vulnerable citizens out in the cold. Cutting funding for our people instead of ending a war that wastes time and resources. Focusing our ire on other democratically elected governments (Venezuela and Palestine, anyone?) when we should just be leaving them alone and taking care of our own citizens. At least Hugo Chavez is making the effort to make health care available to his poor citizens.

And yet these Republicans, who slit the throats of the people they serve, still get elected on platforms like “Don’t vote for that guy, he likes gays!” and “That guy got a purple heart, but he likes gays!” Or how about “That guy is a veteran, sure, but what does he know about terrorism? He likes gays!” And the ignorant bigots come marching to the polls. No one cares that next winter they may be sitting in a hut with just a wood fire to keep the warm (and that wood is probably taxed to pay for the war on terror and the illegal spying on Americans still able to live with basic utilities). No one seems to think that they may not be able to go to the doctor to get that flu vaccine that could save their lives, because there’s no money left for that anymore. As long as there’s no one in office that likes gays.

To those that actually voted for Bush (not counting the ones who thought they weren’t but the electronic voting machines decided they should be), I say, sit your fat, bigoted asses in the cold and be glad that gays can’t get married in your state now. But I hope you get frost burnt while I (and others like me) try to change the way this country is headed. Even though you couldn’t care less about me, you fools, I care about you. I really don’t want any of us to be cold, hungry, or sick

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