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A Watchful Eye

I'm going to keep my eye on just how we're going to pay for all the cash that the president has promised to spend on the Gulf's reconstruction. As yet we don't have a bill from Congress, but we're hearing a few rumblings, and what's being proposed so far is a conservative's wet dream. Cancel tax cuts for people making over $100,000/yr., ones that have yet to take effect? No. Nix a tax break for Paris Hilton and her family? Sorry. How about diverting some of the pork in the Transportation Bill, like the Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere? Get real you crybaby. Let's do some slashing:

-Delay the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill for One year
-Increase Allowable Co-pays in Medicaid
-Block Grant Medicaid Acute Services
-Reduce Farm Payment Acreage by 1%
-Eliminate Subsidized Loans to Graduate Students
-Increase Medicare Part B Premium from 25% to 30%
-Level Funding for the Peace Corps
-Eliminate the Federal Anti-Drug Advertising
-Eliminate Federal Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
-Eliminate State Grants for Safe and Drug-Free Schools
-Eliminate the Even Start Program
-Eliminate Teen Funding Portion of Title X Family Planning
-Eliminate Funding for Penile Implants Under Medicare

Um, one thing, how did we end up paying for that last item in the first place? You'd almost want to conclude some old, white fart in Congress needed some help...oh nevermind. Want more? I know you do. Check out Kevin Drum's post on The Republican War on the Poor.

posted by FuzzFinger @ 9/22/2005 05:32:00 PM