The action
WASHINGTON -- Setting a collision course with Democrats that could drag out for months, House Republicans on Thursday unveiled plans to cut federal money for job training, heating subsidies and grants to better-performing schools.
The draft measure for labor, health and education programs also seeks to block implementation of President Barack Obama's signature health care law, cut off federal funds for National Public Radio and Planned Parenthood, and reduce eligibility for grants for low-income college students.
The reaction
People are saying:
1) George Carlin was so prophetic. Republicans don't want an educated electorate. They want us just smart enough to do the grunt work they need but not smart enough to recognize how we are being conned by the diversionary issues of immigrants, abortion, gays, guns, etc.
2) Education is an INVESTMENT not an EXPENSE. When you look at China then compare that to us, we will soon be left in the dust. Small minded people with no vision for the future. If we don't VOTE them out we are doomed!
3) The Republicans are trying to kill us all. Freeze us out in the winter, taking all our money in taxes while their corporate buddies skate on taxes, killing jobs left and right. Soon only the wealthy will exist and if you're not one of them too bad. It sucks! We need a revolution. The poor outnumber the rich and we need to take our country back from them. Tax breaks for small business; hikes for big business.
4) Democrats need to learn the Republican negotiating strategy, which is to submit initial legislation with all the most extreme things you can think of, stand your ground stubbornly and then "compromise" by removing the most obvious doomsday provision at the very end.
Let's hope Dems have learned their lesson and are willing to go toe to toe.
5) we are all hamsters on neocon "financially engineered" and "financially innovated" wheels
$2.3 TRILLION! — that's $8,000 FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD IN AMERICA!
cheney and haliburton laughed all the way to the bank!
ZERO Investigations. ZERO Prosecutions.
"One Iraqi entrepreneur indicated to NPR last year that there's a thriving black market in U.S. items. "The Americans turn over every base to the Iraqi army and police -- and they are all thieves,""
"I'm thinking about the size of what was wasted there, and thinking about how what we spent in Iraq was all borrowed," she said. "In a crazy way, what we left in Iraq was our good credit rating."
The War On Waste
January 29, 2002
"On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, "the adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy," he said.
Rumsfeld promised change but the next day – Sept. 11-- the world changed and in the rush to fund the war on terrorism, the war on waste seems to have been forgotten.
Just last week President Bush announced, "my 2003 budget calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending."
More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.
"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.
http://m.cbsnews.com/fullstory.rbml?catid=325985&feed_id=0&videofeed=36
6) Can't people see the Republicans are cutting jobs and then they ask where are the jobs? Consumer spending is 70% of our GDP, only cutting spending will never balance the budget.
7) These proposed Educational Cuts have serious consequences:
We already have significant problems in Education Achievement in the US.
" These educational gaps inpose on the US the economic equivalent of a PERMANENT ECONOMIC RECESSION.'
from the Economic impact of the Achievement gap in America's Schools.
http://www.mckinsey.com/app_media/images/page_images/offices/socialsector/pdf/achievement_gap_report.pdf
WASHINGTON -- Setting a collision course with Democrats that could drag out for months, House Republicans on Thursday unveiled plans to cut federal money for job training, heating subsidies and grants to better-performing schools.
The draft measure for labor, health and education programs also seeks to block implementation of President Barack Obama's signature health care law, cut off federal funds for National Public Radio and Planned Parenthood, and reduce eligibility for grants for low-income college students.
The reaction
People are saying:
1) George Carlin was so prophetic. Republicans don't want an educated electorate. They want us just smart enough to do the grunt work they need but not smart enough to recognize how we are being conned by the diversionary issues of immigrants, abortion, gays, guns, etc.
2) Education is an INVESTMENT not an EXPENSE. When you look at China then compare that to us, we will soon be left in the dust. Small minded people with no vision for the future. If we don't VOTE them out we are doomed!
3) The Republicans are trying to kill us all. Freeze us out in the winter, taking all our money in taxes while their corporate buddies skate on taxes, killing jobs left and right. Soon only the wealthy will exist and if you're not one of them too bad. It sucks! We need a revolution. The poor outnumber the rich and we need to take our country back from them. Tax breaks for small business; hikes for big business.
4) Democrats need to learn the Republican negotiating strategy, which is to submit initial legislation with all the most extreme things you can think of, stand your ground stubbornly and then "compromise" by removing the most obvious doomsday provision at the very end.
Let's hope Dems have learned their lesson and are willing to go toe to toe.
5) we are all hamsters on neocon "financially engineered" and "financially innovated" wheels
$2.3 TRILLION! — that's $8,000 FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD IN AMERICA!
cheney and haliburton laughed all the way to the bank!
ZERO Investigations. ZERO Prosecutions.
"One Iraqi entrepreneur indicated to NPR last year that there's a thriving black market in U.S. items. "The Americans turn over every base to the Iraqi army and police -- and they are all thieves,""
"I'm thinking about the size of what was wasted there, and thinking about how what we spent in Iraq was all borrowed," she said. "In a crazy way, what we left in Iraq was our good credit rating."
The War On Waste
January 29, 2002
"On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, "the adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy," he said.
Rumsfeld promised change but the next day – Sept. 11-- the world changed and in the rush to fund the war on terrorism, the war on waste seems to have been forgotten.
Just last week President Bush announced, "my 2003 budget calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending."
More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.
"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.
http://m.cbsnews.com/fullstory.rbml?catid=325985&feed_id=0&videofeed=36
6) Can't people see the Republicans are cutting jobs and then they ask where are the jobs? Consumer spending is 70% of our GDP, only cutting spending will never balance the budget.
7) These proposed Educational Cuts have serious consequences:
We already have significant problems in Education Achievement in the US.
" These educational gaps inpose on the US the economic equivalent of a PERMANENT ECONOMIC RECESSION.'
from the Economic impact of the Achievement gap in America's Schools.
http://www.mckinsey.com/app_media/images/page_images/offices/socialsector/pdf/achievement_gap_report.pdf
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