DRUDGE- Bush plans for big cuts in domestic spending

Bush administration signals plan for across-the-board cuts in domestic spending... Developing...

http://www.drudgereport.com/

maybe he's going to privatize education now?

I wouldn't put it past these thugs!

What in the world are they going to cut? Our roads are in disrepair, they've kicked everyone off welfare, they've cut education to the bone.

What now? Forcing senior citizens to dig ditches for their social security checks?



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HUD's budget for affordable housing and homelessness is beginning to feel some cuts, but hey, Bush could just abolish it and save a few billion--after all, we're just helping lazy people relax in those luxurious homeless shelters.

She just received orders to cut a large number of people off the roll. She said she never thought she'd be checking the obits every day to see if she could keep a needy family in housing. Pretty morbid, eh?

HUD is pretty awful right now. The HUD cabinet secretary, Alphonso Jackson, was recently quoted as saying that poverty "is a state of mind, not a condition." This is the guy in charge of federal homelessness policy. I'm sure Bush just loves him--another house boy, stepping and fetching for the Chimp. If ya know what I mean.

Edit: I should amend that slightly to say that I do collaborate in my work with some competent, well-intentioned people at HUD in their Kansas City and St. Louis offices. But they seem to have their full share of stupid political appointees as well.

That's what BushCo. is all about when it comes to any entitlement program in this country. They have no real interest in just "cutting" something. In the words of one Grover Norquist, they'll just make government small enough that they can drag it to the bathtub and drown it.

will be where he slashes programs that help middle and low income citizens in order to reduce the massive defecits caused by tax cuts for his campaign donors. He'll say "we all need to sacrifice to get through this budget crises" - just wait and see.

That $70 billion + $87 billion + (upcoming) $50 billion for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq add up.

..who writes down everything Rove tells him to.

strategy for you, folks.

We're going to make huge domestic spending cuts and divert the money to the war.

To bad that this war is not nearly as popular as he hoped it would be right about now.

That's what he's talking about right?

/sarcasm

You can no longer get medicaid, if you are on medicare and she is disabled and now doomed for certain death. She was to get a lung transplant ...That farce of a medicare bill won't cover it , she can't pay the 20 percent and only had 1 lung partially working. She was on the list. Goes into effect there July 1, according to her.

Faith based government.

It's gone.

Get Americans (more) pissed off at their gov't. Bush is anti-gov't. Vote for bush. :crazy:

A good leader knows what to do to keep the Nation strong, wealthy, and wise.

Look at the evidence of Bushies first term. Not very bright and instead, its a BLIGHT on America that we let the dim sum in the Oval Office.

he cut taxes, cut what programs they had in Texas to the BONE, ran a huge deficit, then went off to the White House leaving the state in the shitter.

One of the first things that was done after he left was to raise taxes to dig themselves out of their financial hole.

The small town I live in is no longer in denial.
The city council has been attempting to re assess everyone's taxes, and have sold out to large development companies.
The development companies are making this town into a tourist trap for the very wealthy.
Wal Mart has moved in, and the small businesses have closed their doors.
Homes are up for sale all over town, the middle class is shrinking.
The only jobs are service sector jobs for the poor, or none at all.
6 dollars an hour, and not enough of those to go around.
People are being laid off in droves from the companies (like the nuclear power plant) in the area, people who have been there for 30 years or more.
They are being replaced by cheap-wage workers.
I meet every Sunday with a group of women who tell me they have used up what little retirement benefits they have.
I am downsizing also, putting my house on the market soon.
I dont want to live here anymore.
My counselor told me the depression and despair level here is skyrocketing. She sees people all day, all because of the failed Bush economy and whats happened to their families.
My sons are moving home, to help out. Im helping them out too.
The only bright light is that we have a Dem governor.
When Bush got in, I knew all the states would suddenly go the way of Texas.
Filthy, polluted, with the very wealthy and the very poor and nothing in between..
My mother sells her furniture for medicine.
My sister lost her job and her 4 kids are living with her ex husband til she gets on her feet.
Its an ugly time, god help us all.
I am considering leaving the country.
I am , after all, not a nationalist.
I live on the earth, and this place Im in is not a part of the earth I want to live in.
The last time this happened, it was called
The Gilded Age.
The very wealthy, and the very poor.
It backfired.

I'll keep you and everyone affected by this mess in my thoughts.

Thank GOD we just paid off the very last of our credit cards!

Of course, we had to sell our house to do it! Our retirement nest egg? Gone. Our home? Gone. We realized only about $9,000.00 profit from the original price of the home in which we invested $15,000.00 after we bought it, so the end figure was a net loss... and what money we had went for credit debt.

But at least we do not owe it any more... we are back at the place we were when we were newlyweds, but without the youth or the jobs we had then.


I drive a 16 year old car, we rent, we do not go out to movies or dinners out... we've cut to the very quick and still we cannot save for retirement! and so many MANY other Americans are in so much worse circumstances than we are!

I pray for us all. Times are getting terribly thin.

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