They're destroying our country!

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Bush at SOTU: "Our government has a responsibility to help provide health care for the poor and the elderly, and we are meeting that responsibility."


House response Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Budget Reconciliation Bill Passes: 216-214

Today the House held their long-awaited vote on the budget reconciliation bill. The vote, we knew, was going to be close. The final count was 216-214 . . . this bill, which makes very harmful cuts to Medicaid, child support enforcement, foster care, and student loans programs . . . The bill just passed cuts almost $40 billion from entitlement spending over five years, with Medicaid and Medicare bearing 27 percent of the brunt of those cuts. Forty-five million Americans are already without health insurance. Despite the President's comments, there appears to be a glaring hole in the efforts on the part of this country's leadership in fufilling any sort of compassionate health care responsibilities.


SPIN from Washington Times makes it all sound good though. Their version of story:

"The bill maintains $16.5 billion a year for needy families, boosts basic child care funding by $1 billion and designates $150 million a year for marriage and responsible-fatherhood programs. "

He also said the bill will, for the first time, provide "dedicated federal resources" for marriage education services so couples "can learn the skills to form and sustain healthy marriages."
Democrats and liberal groups, however, decried some reforms.
The new work rules could force states to deny assistance to many families, especially two-parent families, said Democratic Reps. Charles B. Rangel of New York and Jim McDermott of Washington, who are members of the House Ways and Means Committee.
In addition, they said, the new child-care funds won't keep pace with inflation and the bill doesn't have new funds for work programs.
The Children's Defense Fund predicted that as many as 250,000 poor children will be left without child care and that countless others will be harmed by new funding rules concerning child support and foster care.
Republicans said their rule changes were needed to "close loopholes," end "double dipping" by state child support agencies and clarify foster care eligibility rules. "


BTW - Did anyone see the headline in the NYT??

"Another Child, Beaten to Death
The deaths of two children in New York underscore the need for better investigative skills among child welfare caseworkers."


And can you imagine what will happen when they overturn Roe v Wade? How many more unwanted and abused children will flood this country?


We have to get the GD Godforsaken pseudo"Christian" fundamentalist whackjob neocon PUKES OUT OF OFFICE! They are KILLING OUR COUNTRY!

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