House Approves Cuts to Labor Programs(job training, rural healthcare, etc)

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Funding for job training, rural health care, low-income schools and help for people lacking health insurance would face big cuts under a bill passed Friday by the House.

The measure, which passed 250-151, contains $142.5 billion in spending under Congress' control for labor, health and education programs. That's essentially a freeze at current levels.

But new demands, including $870 million to administer the new Medicare prescription drug program, have forced cuts in scores of programs.

The cuts include the outright elimination of 48 programs whose current budgets total $1 billion. Among the programs to be eliminated is the Healthy Communities Access Program, currently funded at $83 million, which helps communities offer health care to the uninsured.

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more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050624/ap_on_go_co/congress_spending_1

[DeepModem Mom]

1. Oh, Lord, what next? What will we be when these people...

are through with us?

[katsy]

7. a 3rd world nation....

pledging allegiance to the corporate welfare and politicians whom sold us out along with the american dream.

[billyoc]

13. We'll be a few "dead-enders", if you know what I mean.

And I *think* you know what I mean... :grr:

[MichiganVote]

2. All this will fail and then we pay more later for start up programs

to address the same issues as before.

[BeyondGeography]

3. More Good News for modern man

Those affected will just have to redouble their efforts to be good Christians. Their newfound spiritual comfort will compensate for near-term and future material losses. And we will remind them of that each election cycle, whenever a godless Democrat tries to persuade them otherwise.

[Rex]

4. They steal millions from the poor and give corporations billions.

Fucking bastards!

[JohnnyBoots]

5. Where's Robin Hood when you need him?

[Straight Shooter]

6. I live in a rural area of Oregon, similar to many U.S. rural communities.

As poverty increases and frustration at being able to take care of one's family increases, then alcoholic consumption increases and domestic violence increases.

Dark days ahead for communities across America.

[cornermouse]

8. According to NPR, Bush also raised the amount

of funding for abstinence only and faith-based programs.

[HockeyMom]

9. hat abstinence stuff makes me CRAZY

Ever read it? Abstinence ONLY until Marriage. What the Hell are they advocating? Not even considering all the FALSE information they are teaching kids (Pill fails 25% of time, condoms cause CANCER), they are backhandedly advocating hurry up and get get married as soon as you can to have sex. Want MORE divorce? That is a sure way to get it. If you decide to further your education and your career and are say, 25 or 30 years old? Sorry, no sex and no birth control.

Then what? What are teaching our kids? FAITHFULNESS in marriage. Again, no mention of BIRTH CONTROL. So, if you ARE married, then you DON'T NEED BIRTH CONTROL if you don't screw around? Do these people have IQ's of zero????? What do they want? A whole bunch of stupid people breeding like rabbits cause they are living in the 17th Century? "God's WILL" Yeah, right. Cause THEY won't pay for your 8 kids when you aren't on BC.

Happy Theocracy, Fundies. COUNT ME OUT.

[Horse with no Name]

21. I'll tell you exactly what they are peddling

These young men get these young girls pregnant.
They get married...he doesn't have an education. He can't find a job--no health insurance, etc.
Then said young man has to join the military to support his new family.
They don't do ANYTHING that isn't pre-planned.

[DeepModem Mom]

22. My guess is that this is a very common sequence of events --

very perceptive, Horse.

[depakid]

10. 250-151. Now let's see- how many Dems in the House

200?

So- according to the arthimetic, it lookslike at least 51 Dems more than 1/4th of the Democratic House delegation either voted for this far right scheme or decined to vote at all.

And the Dems wonder why so many people think that they stand for NOTHING (other than corporate corruption, that is).

It seems to me that until the party gets serious about unseating DINO's and calling its members to account for their backstabbing ways they're destined to remain irrelevant. And rightly so-

[progressivebydesign]

15. I'm seeing more and more elected Dems with TOO much corporate payoffs. n/t

[MisterP]

20. but if we get rid of them they won't be there to vote for liberal policies

--oh, never mind!

[bribri16]

11. Haven't you noticed that "workers" are not important to this admin?

Only "investors" and "entrapenuers" and coporate whores. Workers be damned. Since there is little work in this country, who needs "workers" Besides you can get illegal immigrants to work for practically nothing.

[deacon]

12. From now on I will refer to house and senate republicans as "dog kickers"

n/t

[progressivebydesign]

14. When the fuck will SOMEONE address offshore tax shelters???

Because the AMERICAN corportions are NOT PAYING their FAIR share of taxes!!! But.. as long as we keep sending millionaires of both parties, to D.C. to do our bidding, we will keep getting screwed. It just pisses me off completely to see the rich keep getting richer.. and the poor and middle class getting totally screwed.

You know, I'm not talking about those people that work honest professions and are able to enrich themselves and be wealthy in a normal fashion.. I'm talking about the filthy rich, overly paid CEOs who are pulling down MILLIONS each year while their money is totally sheltered from taxes AND their corporations are getting the equivalent of corporate welfare. Not like taking away their tax bonanza is going to hurt any more American workers.. cuz the mofos have sent most of those jobs to India and China and Mexico to enrich their fatass fatcat board of directors and bigname stockholders even further.

I fucking hate those people.. :grr:

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. And still the rank and file repubs vote against their own

financial best interests. They poo-poo social welfare but don't have a problem with corporate welfare, however it affects their lives. They've been brainwashed to think that giving tax breaks to corporations will create jobs. Problem is those jobs are in far away countries which doesn't 'put food on their families' here in the good ole USA! Will they ever get it?

[LiberalAndProud]

16. guns for butter policy

We are being destroyed by this war

[drduffy]

17. It is always better to support war than the downtrodden

don' ya know? It is the 'Christian' thing to do. Bah! The repugs have given Christianity such a bad name and sour taste that they'll be lucky if the whole concept of christ survives into the next century. And Christ, meanwhile, will turn over in what ever place the 'risen' sleep in.

[DemoTex]

18. Meanwhile, in Iraq-nam ... $1.5 billion per week.

In-fucking-sane!

[Auntie Bush]

19. So according to rethugs...it is more compassionate to take away

health care from the needy and job training for the unemployed than giving millions to corporations and millionaires. I don't get it!

[wellst0nev0ter]

23. What They Said

especially the rural voters, who keep voting for their own masochism.

[Sugarbleus]

24. OMFG!!!

Sons of Bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so sick of this shit.

I can't say here what I'm thinking and wishing but suffice it to say:

A POX ON ALL THEIR HOUSES!!

[Toots]

25. House approves cuts to Labor Programs

WASHINGTON - Funding for job training, rural health care, low-income schools and help for people lacking health insurance would face big cuts under a bill passed Friday by the House.

The measure, which passed 250-151, contains $142.5 billion in spending under Congress' control for labor, health and education programs. That's essentially a freeze at current levels
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Also eliminated is the $205 million budget for an Education Department grant program targeted at low-income and underachieving schools.
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The cuts are the result of Bush's tight budget for federal programs outside of the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security. Congress hewed to Bush's demands when passing its budget in April and is implementing an almost 1 percent cut to domestic programs through passage of 11 spending bills.

In practice, that translates to an 84 percent cut — from $300 million down to $47 million — in training programs for doctors and nurses, and $806 million in cuts to Bush's No Child Left Behind education initiative, a more than 3 percent drop. Grants for local community-action agencies that help the poor would be cut in half, to $320 million

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On Friday, the House also voted 219-185 to go on record against a Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation agreement with United Airlines letting United dump its employee-pension plans and their $9.8 billion shortfall on the PBGC, which could mean pension cuts of 25 percent to 50 percent for more than 120,000 United workers and retirees.

United says the move is required to emerge from bankruptcy and supporters of the airline said that without the pension relief, 62,000 United employees could lose their jobs.


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=1&u=/ap/20050625/ap_on_go_co/congress_spending

[are_we_united_yet]

26. We're turnin' that corner

[alfredo]

28. those fuckwads. Just don't touch the tax cut for the rich.

[alfredo]

29. Be sure to recommend this.

[ailsagirl]

30. Yet more programs bite the dust...

Bastards. Bloody BASTARDS!!!

:nuke:

[Solly Mack]

31. I'm so glad they care about the people

ho hum...

[libodem]

32. pretty soon the middle-class will have no reason to pay taxes

we get no benefit from them. Our taxes will be going to support the military industrial complex. I smell tax revolt. I'm more than willing to pay my fair share of taxes..if it's for health, education and welfare and roads, but to line the pockets of Halliburton...nope! I'm sick of government. I think we are ready to switch ideation with the rebubs...less taxes and smaller government for those bastards to waste our money.....