AlterNet puts into sharp context what the GOP plan on doing to save money as part of budgetary measures. In effect attack the most vulnerable in society. Reduce aid for food, etc. Charming!
"Hunger and starvation is no excuse to welch off the Federal Government.
That's the Republican response, in any event, to how to deal with the budget deficit. While Republicans defend billions of dollars in subsidies for Big Oil and propose further tax cuts for the wealthy, they see food aid for hungry people here and around the world as a bad idea. Bug Guvmint should get out of the business of keeping people from starving. Now isn't that special:
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are targeting domestic nutrition programs and international food assistance as they try to control spending in next year's budget.
In a bill released Monday, Republicans proposed cutting $832 million - 11 percent from this year's budget for the Women, Infants and Children program, which provides food for low-income mothers and children. The 2012 budget proposal for food and farm programs also includes a decrease of almost $457 million, or 23 percent, from international food assistance.
The legislation would cut $2 billion from food stamps, or about 2 percent of the feeding program's giant $67 billion budget.
Of course, Republicans claim that this is all wasted money and that cutting it would have "no effect" on the actual delivery of services for poor, underfed, malnourished people. Please excuse me if I don't trust the word of the same folks who:
Apologized to the Chairman of BP for the way the Obama administration acted to obtain compensation for all the billions of dollars of damage that was caused by B P's (at best) negligence after its Deepwater Horizon Well dumped unimaginable amounts of oil and gas into the Gulf.
Believes Global Warming and Climate Change are a hoax concocted by Al Gore and scientists who are conspiring to kill our economy.
Screamed to high heaven about "Obamacare's Death Panels"
Claims killing Medicare is the only way to save it.
Told us the Bush Tax cuts would create jobs and increase government revenues.
"Hunger and starvation is no excuse to welch off the Federal Government.
That's the Republican response, in any event, to how to deal with the budget deficit. While Republicans defend billions of dollars in subsidies for Big Oil and propose further tax cuts for the wealthy, they see food aid for hungry people here and around the world as a bad idea. Bug Guvmint should get out of the business of keeping people from starving. Now isn't that special:
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are targeting domestic nutrition programs and international food assistance as they try to control spending in next year's budget.
In a bill released Monday, Republicans proposed cutting $832 million - 11 percent from this year's budget for the Women, Infants and Children program, which provides food for low-income mothers and children. The 2012 budget proposal for food and farm programs also includes a decrease of almost $457 million, or 23 percent, from international food assistance.
The legislation would cut $2 billion from food stamps, or about 2 percent of the feeding program's giant $67 billion budget.
Of course, Republicans claim that this is all wasted money and that cutting it would have "no effect" on the actual delivery of services for poor, underfed, malnourished people. Please excuse me if I don't trust the word of the same folks who:
Apologized to the Chairman of BP for the way the Obama administration acted to obtain compensation for all the billions of dollars of damage that was caused by B P's (at best) negligence after its Deepwater Horizon Well dumped unimaginable amounts of oil and gas into the Gulf.
Believes Global Warming and Climate Change are a hoax concocted by Al Gore and scientists who are conspiring to kill our economy.
Screamed to high heaven about "Obamacare's Death Panels"
Claims killing Medicare is the only way to save it.
Told us the Bush Tax cuts would create jobs and increase government revenues.
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