"Bush’s budget is just plain nasty" -Classic Ivins

[Rose Siding]

Budgets are the guts of government. That’s where you find the answer to the first of the three important questions about who runs a society: Who’s getting screwed? Who’s doing the screwing? And what the hell will they do to us next?

There was a time when reporters actually read budgets to find out what was going on, but the things are so humongous these days, we’ve given up on that. Consequently, there’s usually a bit of a pause after a budget comes out, while we wait to hear from the various special interest groups that study their own section of a budget in minute detail. Then, the screaming from injured parties commences, and the press presumably sits up and takes note of who’s screaming loudest.

With President Bush’s proposed budget, may it die in committee, no pause is necessary. Read any overview of the proposal, and you can see exactly who’s getting screwed: children.
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What this budget means, quite literally, is that more kids will be hungry and malnourished. More kids who get sick will be unable to see a doctor, more kids with diseases will go undiagnosed until they get so sick they have to be carried to the emergency room. More kids who need glasses or hearing aids won’t get them, causing them to fall behind in school. More kids will show up to start school without being in the least prepared, and they will remain behind for the rest of their days. Less money for childcare means more kids left alone or in unsafe places with irresponsible or incapable people while their parents work. More kids who are being severely abused will go unnoticed, and fewer of them will find safe foster homes.

http://wvgazette.com/section/Columns/2005021810

[stellanoir]

1. gotta love

those "family values"

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. I hope the richest among us, aka the Greed Piggies

enjoy their mostly undeserved and surely unnecessary tax cuts.

[NC_Nurse]

2. Bush is just plain nasty...

people just don't want to admit it. Sad, but true, the administration is all about themselves, their buddies, and their greed and arrogance. Forget you. :puke:

They use the "moral" and "religous" crowd, all the while turning those values on their head. How completely disgusting.

[alfredo]

3. I feel it is my duty to

kick this.

step back, give our ole buddy some room.

One more step. That's good.

Ok, do your thing.

:kick:

[wellstone dem]

4. amen

and another kick

[Lindacooks]

6. kick