"Fredric L. Rice" <FRice@SkepticTank.ORG> wrote in message
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What would Jesus say about a Christian country that does this?

Money for Napalm but Not for Food Stamps
by Mike Whitney
www.dissidentvoice.org
November 18, 2005

The Republican dominated House passed a five-year budget plan in the
early
hours of Friday morning which savages programs for the poor, college
students and disease control.

The bill tosses 220,000 people off food stamps, allow states to jack up
the
cost of co-payments for poor Medicaid beneficiaries, squeeze students
with
loans, and cut aid to child-support programs.

Republican's felt they were being magnanimous when they dumped a
provision
that would have "denied free school lunches to about 40,000 children
whose
parents would lose their food stamps."

The milk of human kindness flows from the Republican Congress like blood
from a turnip.

Let's be clear, the Food stamps program only provides for an estimated
300,000 people. The new bill knocks 220,000 people off the program,
leaving
a paltry 80,000 still qualifying for assistance.

Is 80,000 the maximum number of people we can feed in the richest country
on earth?! Meanwhile, we are spending $6 billion a month to kill Iraqis
in
their homes and cities.

Go figure.

The bill is an outrage and the men who signed it should be chained to a
back-***** and dragged down Pennsylvania Ave.

It took a second vote to pass the bill, but that had nothing to do with
moral qualms about leaving their fellow man and woman without enough food
to eat. No, it failed to pass because it didn't contain the pork nuggets
that congressman require in an election year. After those tidbits were
reentered into the bill, it sailed through without a hitch.

All the same, this proves an important point. The conservative strategy
to
plunge the nation into debt to reduce the size of government to where it
can be "drowned in a bathtub" has fallen on hard times. If last night is
any indication, the last tax dollar ever collected will go for some
useless
project (like the Alaska "bridge to nowhere") that will perpetuate the
career of a waffle bottom Washington politico.

Grover Norquist take note!

The bill does nothing to reduce spending or deficits as Republicans
claim.
As the Washington Post states, the "Congressional Budget Office.estimated
last night that all the changes shaved just 2 percent off the cuts
initially targeted at anti-poverty programs."

2%?

Still, the Congress would rather take the food out of the mouths of
children to pay for the white phosphorus they're dropping on Iraqis.

Do we need to remind ourselves that 50% of every tax dollar goes to a
gluttonous Defense Dept that is currently conducting the largest
terrorist
training camp in the world? (Iraq)

Oh, yeah, and the bill also cuts $976 million out of health care
programs,
including $249 million reduction to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. In other words, critical resources for the bird-flu epidemic
are being stripped to compensate for the lavish tax cuts that are
provided
to friends of George Bush.

Funding for college would be cut as well, with "Pell grants frozen for
the
fourth year in a row." (NY Times)

Is this what Republicans call debt reduction: a ruthless raping of the
social safety net? The House bill is an example of a nation that has
turned
inward and is devouring itself. It does nothing to mop up the red ink. It
is a complete sham, designed to hurt the people in our society who most
need our help.

Compassionate conservative?

Bah, humbug!

220,000 hungry people will remember next November
when they help vote the Republican bastards out of office.
If anything will get them to register to vote, not having
enough food to feed their kids will do it.

"Fredric L. Rice" <FRice@SkepticTank.ORG> wrote in message
news:11okp1bth93c993@corp.supernews.com...

What would Jesus say about a Christian country that does this?

Money for Napalm but Not for Food Stamps
by Mike Whitney
www.dissidentvoice.org
November 18, 2005

The Republican dominated House passed a five-year budget plan in the early
hours of Friday morning which savages programs for the poor, college
students and disease control.

The bill tosses 220,000 people off food stamps, allow states to jack up
the
cost of co-payments for poor Medicaid beneficiaries, squeeze students with
loans, and cut aid to child-support programs.

Republican's felt they were being magnanimous when they dumped a provision
that would have "denied free school lunches to about 40,000 children whose
parents would lose their food stamps."

The milk of human kindness flows from the Republican Congress like blood
from a turnip.

Let's be clear, the Food stamps program only provides for an estimated
300,000 people. The new bill knocks 220,000 people off the program,
leaving
a paltry 80,000 still qualifying for assistance.

Is 80,000 the maximum number of people we can feed in the richest country
on earth?! Meanwhile, we are spending $6 billion a month to kill Iraqis in
their homes and cities.

Go figure.

The bill is an outrage and the men who signed it should be chained to a
back-***** and dragged down Pennsylvania Ave.

It took a second vote to pass the bill, but that had nothing to do with
moral qualms about leaving their fellow man and woman without enough food
to eat. No, it failed to pass because it didn't contain the pork nuggets
that congressman require in an election year. After those tidbits were
reentered into the bill, it sailed through without a hitch.

All the same, this proves an important point. The conservative strategy to
plunge the nation into debt to reduce the size of government to where it
can be "drowned in a bathtub" has fallen on hard times. If last night is
any indication, the last tax dollar ever collected will go for some
useless
project (like the Alaska "bridge to nowhere") that will perpetuate the
career of a waffle bottom Washington politico.

Grover Norquist take note!

The bill does nothing to reduce spending or deficits as Republicans claim.
As the Washington Post states, the "Congressional Budget Office.estimated
last night that all the changes shaved just 2 percent off the cuts
initially targeted at anti-poverty programs."

2%?

Still, the Congress would rather take the food out of the mouths of
children to pay for the white phosphorus they're dropping on Iraqis.

Do we need to remind ourselves that 50% of every tax dollar goes to a
gluttonous Defense Dept that is currently conducting the largest terrorist
training camp in the world? (Iraq)

Oh, yeah, and the bill also cuts $976 million out of health care programs,
including $249 million reduction to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. In other words, critical resources for the bird-flu epidemic
are being stripped to compensate for the lavish tax cuts that are provided
to friends of George Bush.

Funding for college would be cut as well, with "Pell grants frozen for the
fourth year in a row." (NY Times)

Is this what Republicans call debt reduction: a ruthless raping of the
social safety net? The House bill is an example of a nation that has
turned
inward and is devouring itself. It does nothing to mop up the red ink. It
is a complete sham, designed to hurt the people in our society who most
need our help.

Compassionate conservative?

Bah, humbug!

220,000 hungry people will remember next November
when they help vote the Republican bastards out of office.
If anything will get them to register to vote, not having
enough food to feed their kids will do it.