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MyspaceBecause tax cuts for the wealthy are sacred, Republicans in Congress have voted to deal with what they consider a bigger issue than even unemployment by attacking the deficit as follows:
*Block money for carrying out the health care overhaul (even though blocking the overhaul would actually increase the deficit).
*Bar federal funds for Planned Parenthood.
*Eliminate federal family planning and teen pregnancy prevention grants.
*Prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing regulations curbing emissions of gases that cause global warming.
*Reduce Pell Grants for lower-income college students.
*Cut food aid for poor pregnant women and women with children up to the age of 5 years.
*Eliminate federal money for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
*Limit this year’s budget for the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and cut the budgets of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission.
To sum up: Use the deficit issue to promote the conservative social agenda, and screw the middle class, the poor, and even the planet.
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How about cutting the millions in subsidies to NASCAR?
EZK (anonymous profile)
February 21, 2011 at 9:26 a.m. (Suggest removal)
It's good to see that the adults have taken over. But telling progs that there is no money is like pissing in the wind. But it is fun to see them scream. Daniel Petry
jcrdan (anonymous profile)
February 24, 2011 at 9:56 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Adults? These are ideological thugs using an economic crisis caused by the policies of their own party as an excuse to push through their social agenda. People who find it fun to see tax cuts for the wealthy being paid for by cuts in teen pregnancy prevention, aid to low-income college students, food for pregnant women, attempts to curb global warming, and consumer and financial oversight are too stupid to realize that they're pissing on themselves.
pk (anonymous profile)
February 24, 2011 at 11:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
jcrdan has some explaining to do when it comes to taking money out of peoples pockets. His failed stint at the United States Military Academy was paid for by you and me , folks. All his incessant badgering about taxes and government leeches rings very hollow when considering the money that came out of our pockets to fund his little misadventure at West Point.
geeber (anonymous profile)
February 26, 2011 at 11:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)