Unfortunately they can't find enough money to send back the bodies of the
young
Americans, whose death they are responsible for, in a dignified manner
Actually they place no value on these soldiers, they are viewed as only
lower class peons who don't have what it takes to succeed as crooked
business men and politicians
"Black Elk" <windriver2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ef23b$43a3b1c0$4fee6ba$6155@DIALUPUSA.NET...
The GOP seems to find endless money to give tax cuts to the wealthy and
fund
its war in Iraq which results in growing the deficit and cutting funding
for
healthcare and education.
From the article:
Democrats opposed the health-care and education spending bill, noting it
would cut $249 million from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention,
$780 million from President George W. Bush's "No Child Left Behind"
education program and would add no money to help low-income people pay
winter heating bills despite skyrocketing fuel costs.
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House passes health, education spending cuts
By Richard CowanWed Dec 14, 2005
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a $602
billion bill to cut funds for health, education and labor programs nearly
one month after a slightly different version of the measure was
unexpectedly
rejected.
By a vote of 215-213, the House approved the legislation, which trims $1.4
billion from last year's spending for these social programs. The measure
passed after House and Senate negotiators agreed to add back slightly more
money sought by Republicans for rural health programs.
The House vote came amid partisan fighting over national spending
priorities
and after religious activists staged a Capitol Hill protest against
spending
cuts, which resulted in mass arrests.
Democrats opposed the health-care and education spending bill, noting it
would cut $249 million from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention,
$780 million from President George W. Bush's "No Child Left Behind"
education program and would add no money to help low-income people pay
winter heating bills despite skyrocketing fuel costs.
As a result, Senate Democrats, led by senators Tom Harkin of Iowa and
Edward
Kennedy of Massachusetts, said they would try to defeat this fiscal 2006
spending bill when it arrives on the Senate floor later this week.
"What's happening in Congress today is bizarre," Harkin told reporters,
saying a "mean-spiritedness" had overtaken the legislature.
But Rep. Ralph Regula, the Ohio Republican in charge of the spending bill
in
the House, said the social programs were being "managed carefully" and
argued that some initiatives actually would enjoy increased funding.
Meanwhile, religious groups on Wednesday targeted another
Republican-backed
money bill for defeat. U.S. Capitol Police arrested 115 religious
activists
after they staged a peaceful sit-in at a government building near the U.S.
Capitol.
The protesters' target was a controversial Republican budget bill being
negotiated that would achieve around $42 billion in net savings over five
years from a range of federal programs, including health care for the poor
and elderly and possibly child care, student loans and food stamps.
"Someone's praying Lord, stop the cuts," chanted the protesters before
U.S.
Capitol Police officers moved in to arrest them. They were camped out at
the
Cannon building that houses the offices of some lawmakers.
Call to Renewal, a network of churches and other religious organizations,
was planning "local prayer vigils" in 32 states on Wednesday to protest
the
budget cuts.
Republicans argue that the spending reductions will help offset the more
than $60 billion in Hurricane Katrina aid approved by Congress that
otherwise would add to huge U.S. budget deficits. The cuts also are
intended
to be a first crack at controlling growing "mandatory" programs that take
up
a huge portion of the U.S. budget.
Democrats counter that the spending cuts would hurt the poor and are
simply
a way to pay for continuing tax cuts aimed in part at helping the
wealthiest
Americans.
Even before Wednesday's protests, there were signs that the House of
Representatives was stepping back from some of the spending cuts that have
so angered Democrats and some moderate Republicans.
Rep. James Walsh, a New York Republican, told Reuters it was looking as if
the spending-cut compromise being worked on by negotiators would abandon a
House-passed plan for about $700 billion in food stamp cuts. That plan
would
have excluded an estimated 235,000 people from the aid.
Still unclear was whether Congress would come to an agreement on the
spending cuts before recessing for the year.
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Virtually all of the specific economic policies advocated by the Italian
and
German fascists of the 1930s have also been adopted in the United States
in
some form, and continue to be adopted to this day. Sixty years ago, those
who adopted these interventionist policies in Italy and Germany did so
because they wanted to destroy economic liberty, free enterprise, and
individualism. Only if these institutions were abolished could they hope
to
achieve the kind of totalitarian state they had in mind.
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