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In reply to the discussion: "The President's budget, Among Other Things, Cuts the Home Heating Program by 14%." - Grayson. Why? [View all]Lars39
(26,106 posts)27. Cut the military budget and fund both.
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"The President's budget, Among Other Things, Cuts the Home Heating Program by 14%." - Grayson. Why? [View all]
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
OP
Before *anything* else? So no education funding until everyone has a house and food?
Recursion
Apr 2013
#7
We can cut, oh, about a trillion fucking dollars out of the corporo-military budget
Arugula Latte
Apr 2013
#15
Cutting even a tiny, tiny fraction of the military budget should cover heating
Arugula Latte
Apr 2013
#18
Have we cut it by 14%? If not what is the actual percentage the military budget was reduced?
Dragonfli
Apr 2013
#26
So 2.5% in this years budget? Great news if not just a meaningless projection
Dragonfli
Apr 2013
#42
Then since the 14% cut in LIHEAP is represented the same way, it is also a trick. Or
Dragonfli
Apr 2013
#62
I guess he is....doesn't make much sense as it's Obama's budget straight from the Pentagon.
neverforget
Apr 2013
#75
Bullshit. That bloated budget could be slashed and slashed and slashed and still be WAY too much.
Arugula Latte
Apr 2013
#97
But it's doubled in the last ten years. All for BS wars and a security state that is obviously not
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
#100
I have defended it. The fact that you can't process the finitude of resources is not my problem
Recursion
Apr 2013
#25
I wish it were as difficult as you imagine it. Doing NOTHING would mean NO CUTS!!!!!!
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
#101
"Of course money isn't infinite (well, actually that's arguable)." It sure is - we print it!
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
#77
'find things'?? Like human beings? So the poor are merely 'things' we 'want to spend money on'?
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#31
Yes, it's a 'thing' that saves lives. Like water, should we cut water too? What is your point
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#37
What if marshmallows fell from the sky and we burned them? Heating costs can jump 14% in months,
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
#11
We shouldn't be reducing anything but political realities don't mirror our own.
randome
Apr 2013
#24
What if people didn't die from lack of heat in the US? Wouldn't that be wonderful and we
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#35
He Proposes cuts each year, Congress has been rejecting his cuts and providing more than he asks
Dragonfli
Apr 2013
#20
Thank you for your comment and for all that you are doing to try to help the poor. I am upstate
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#41
I haven't been there but do remember the floods and the awful damage that was done.
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#45
Obama sees the future, you don't. The other graham has explained this...
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Apr 2013
#39
I can see the future too "it's a place about 70 miles east of here, where it's lighter"
Dragonfli
Apr 2013
#69
The curtain has been pulled back. Struggling with a nat while the military gorilla runs wild.
L0oniX
Apr 2013
#40
I've adopted Rep Grayson as my pretend Rep(beats Virginia Foxx) and donate what I can
byeya
Apr 2013
#51
How does one "flagellate" oneself? I tried, but I lack the required flagella for propulsion.
Dragonfli
Apr 2013
#73
"there is a case to be made that the funding should have remained at the 2009 -2011 levels."
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
#84
That doesn't even make sense. The explanation was that he was operating for the oligarchs!
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
#82
Congress budgets, and the Progressive Caucus budget is the BEST, hands down.
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
#95
The Congress knows this. The Presidents job is to make our representatives represent us. Including
grahamhgreen
Apr 2013
#98
He wants to ensure that he cannot be held responsible for anything that is done
Egalitarian Thug
Apr 2013
#90