I'm still gittin my tax cut, so fuk you all!!!

WASHINGTON ? Outraged protests greeted President George W. Bush?s $2.57
trillion budget proposal, with many calling it a fraudulent, radical plan
to starve spending on human needs while lavishing billions on the ?greedy.?


The 2006 budget Bush sent to Capitol Hill Feb. 7 ratchets up military
spending 5 percent, to $419 billion from $400 billion in the current
budget. The new figure does not include funds for the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Bush is requesting an off-budget $81 billion supplement to pay
for those adventures, which have already cost $151 billion. Also not
included is the cost of Bush?s Social Security privatization plan,
estimated to add $2 trillion to the budget deficit over the next 10 years
and $6 trillion over the next 20 years if it passes.

On the other hand, spending for health, schools, food stamps, veterans and
a sweeping range of other domestic programs, now at $392 billion, would be
slashed $3 billion and frozen for four years.

Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
accused Bush of a long-term agenda aimed at terminating domestic programs
under the ultra-right slogan ?starve the beast,? even as the number of poor
and unemployed people dependent on programs like food stamps and Medicaid
soars above 50 million.

?Total it all together and it leads over time to a radical shrinkage of the
domestic side of the budget,? Greenstein told a Feb. 8 telephone news
conference. In the weeks before this budget was unveiled, ?we heard more
expressions of concern about these cutbacks than we have heard in a couple
of decades,? he said. ?People were anticipating the cuts.?

Thomas H. Corey, president of Vietnam Veterans of America, accused Bush of
waging ?a budget war on America?s veterans.?

?With American soldiers deployed across the globe, the administration has
uttered platitudes about our brave young men and women on the front lines
of freedom,? the veterans leader said. ?However, this grossly inadequate
budget shows that [administration officials] do not understand our nation?s
obligation to care for veterans.?

He was referring to a new $250 enrollment fee that 1 million veterans will
be forced to pay to obtain health care from the Veterans Administration
(VA). Also, co-pays levied on veterans have been doubled. ?The increases in
co-payments and the user fee are designed to drive veterans away from the
VA,? Corey said. ?We believe this budget will constrict veterans benefits.
? The president is mistaken if he believes 58 percent of veterans voted for
the Bush-Cheney ticket last year to give his administration a mandate to
cut funds for veterans.?

Medicaid is another federal health program viciously slashed by $45 billion
over the coming decade even as the ranks of the medically uninsured soar
toward 50 million. Children would be among the hardest hit. ?The food stamp
cut would terminate food stamp aid for 200,000 to 300,000 low-income
people, most of whom are members of low-income working families with
children,? Greenstein charged. ?The budget proposes new tax cuts ? that
will reduce revenues by almost $130 billion over five years and $1.4
trillion over 10 years.? These tax giveaways benefit only the top one
percent of taxpayers.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) said Bush is seeking to perpetuate ?a hoax,
pulling a bait and switch. ? It?s a budget that rewards the greedy and cuts
the needy. It is geared toward making the original tax cuts for the rich
permanent and increasing military spending while cutting health programs
for poor people and veterans and trimming spending on the environment and
education.?

Danielle Ewen, senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social
Policy, charged that cuts in federal child assistance would mean 300,000
fewer children served over the next five years. ?Hundreds of thousands of
parents across the United States are working hard but not making enough to
fully pay for the child care they need to keep their jobs,? she said.
?These working parents should be supported, not penalized.?

Ewen told the World, ?It?s pretty clear that the Bush administration?s
budget priorities are to protect the tax cuts that benefit a very small
number of people, not the programs that benefit everyone and strengthen our
country such as child care, Medicaid, veterans? benefits, education,
housing and the environment. Virtually everyone in our country is being
touched by these budget cuts. They are trying to balance the budget on the
backs of everyone who will be hurt be these cuts.?

She urged unity to fight the cutbacks, warning, ?One of their strategies
will be to pit the advocates for low-income people against each other? with
the line, ?cut their benefits, not ours.?

Peace Action and United For Peace and Justice organized a ?call-in? to
Congress Feb. 9 urging lawmakers to reject Bush?s $81 billion supplemental
war funding request, with the message, ?Not one more dime should go to the
war in Iraq.? Scott Lynch, Peace Action communications director, said, ?The
Bush defense budget is heading toward $500 billion. It is a sham in that it
contains no money for the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. What they are
doing is hiding the cost of these wars from the American people. It is more
dishonesty from this administration. Every dollar spent over there is as
dollar taken away from our domestic needs.?

I'm still gittin my tax cut, so fuk you all!!!

WASHINGTON ? Outraged protests greeted President George W. Bush?s $2.57
trillion budget proposal, with many calling it a fraudulent, radical plan
to starve spending on human needs while lavishing billions on the
?greedy.?


The 2006 budget Bush sent to Capitol Hill Feb. 7 ratchets up military
spending 5 percent, to $419 billion from $400 billion in the current
budget. The new figure does not include funds for the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Bush is requesting an off-budget $81 billion supplement to
pay
for those adventures, which have already cost $151 billion. Also not
included is the cost of Bush?s Social Security privatization plan,
estimated to add $2 trillion to the budget deficit over the next 10 years
and $6 trillion over the next 20 years if it passes.

On the other hand, spending for health, schools, food stamps, veterans and
a sweeping range of other domestic programs, now at $392 billion, would be
slashed $3 billion and frozen for four years.

Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
accused Bush of a long-term agenda aimed at terminating domestic programs
under the ultra-right slogan ?starve the beast,? even as the number of
poor
and unemployed people dependent on programs like food stamps and Medicaid
soars above 50 million.

?Total it all together and it leads over time to a radical shrinkage of
the
domestic side of the budget,? Greenstein told a Feb. 8 telephone news
conference. In the weeks before this budget was unveiled, ?we heard more
expressions of concern about these cutbacks than we have heard in a couple
of decades,? he said. ?People were anticipating the cuts.?

Thomas H. Corey, president of Vietnam Veterans of America, accused Bush of
waging ?a budget war on America?s veterans.?

?With American soldiers deployed across the globe, the administration has
uttered platitudes about our brave young men and women on the front lines
of freedom,? the veterans leader said. ?However, this grossly inadequate
budget shows that [administration officials] do not understand our
nation?s
obligation to care for veterans.?

He was referring to a new $250 enrollment fee that 1 million veterans will
be forced to pay to obtain health care from the Veterans Administration
(VA). Also, co-pays levied on veterans have been doubled. ?The increases
in
co-payments and the user fee are designed to drive veterans away from the
VA,? Corey said. ?We believe this budget will constrict veterans benefits.
? The president is mistaken if he believes 58 percent of veterans voted
for
the Bush-Cheney ticket last year to give his administration a mandate to
cut funds for veterans.?

Medicaid is another federal health program viciously slashed by $45
billion
over the coming decade even as the ranks of the medically uninsured soar
toward 50 million. Children would be among the hardest hit. ?The food
stamp
cut would terminate food stamp aid for 200,000 to 300,000 low-income
people, most of whom are members of low-income working families with
children,? Greenstein charged. ?The budget proposes new tax cuts ? that
will reduce revenues by almost $130 billion over five years and $1.4
trillion over 10 years.? These tax giveaways benefit only the top one
percent of taxpayers.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) said Bush is seeking to perpetuate ?a
hoax,
pulling a bait and switch. ? It?s a budget that rewards the greedy and
cuts
the needy. It is geared toward making the original tax cuts for the rich
permanent and increasing military spending while cutting health programs
for poor people and veterans and trimming spending on the environment and
education.?

Danielle Ewen, senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social
Policy, charged that cuts in federal child assistance would mean 300,000
fewer children served over the next five years. ?Hundreds of thousands of
parents across the United States are working hard but not making enough to
fully pay for the child care they need to keep their jobs,? she said.
?These working parents should be supported, not penalized.?

Ewen told the World, ?It?s pretty clear that the Bush administration?s
budget priorities are to protect the tax cuts that benefit a very small
number of people, not the programs that benefit everyone and strengthen
our
country such as child care, Medicaid, veterans? benefits, education,
housing and the environment. Virtually everyone in our country is being
touched by these budget cuts. They are trying to balance the budget on the
backs of everyone who will be hurt be these cuts.?

She urged unity to fight the cutbacks, warning, ?One of their strategies
will be to pit the advocates for low-income people against each other?
with
the line, ?cut their benefits, not ours.?

Peace Action and United For Peace and Justice organized a ?call-in? to
Congress Feb. 9 urging lawmakers to reject Bush?s $81 billion supplemental
war funding request, with the message, ?Not one more dime should go to the
war in Iraq.? Scott Lynch, Peace Action communications director, said,
?The
Bush defense budget is heading toward $500 billion. It is a sham in that
it
contains no money for the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. What they
are
doing is hiding the cost of these wars from the American people. It is
more
dishonesty from this administration. Every dollar spent over there is as
dollar taken away from our domestic needs.?