From American Progress:
February 8 , 2006
They say that the budget reflects the priorities of the administration. If this is so, the victims of Hurricane Katrina have been forgotten. After the disaster, President Bush proclaimed, “this government will learn the lessons of Hurricane Katrina.” Yet the budget request released this past Monday offers no new aid for Katrina victims, and that is not all. Instead of helping Americans who have suffered the unimaginable, the Bush administration has sought more tax cuts for the wealthy and more giveaways for big industry, proving that it has not learned its lesson at all.
The President has left every child behind in Louisiana. At a time when Louisiana parents are struggling with the decision whether to bring their kids back to school, President Bush's budget provides no new money for Louisiana schools. The budget would keep Title I money for disadvantaged schools – the major financing device for Louisiana schools – static at $12.7 billion.
The President’s budget has made Americans more vulnerable to natural disasters. The President’s budget calls for a shocking 34 percent cut to the construction budget of the Army Corps of Engineers. Even more incredible, Bush has called for cuts in watershed and flood prevention. And to rub salt in the wound, our disaster-hardened President is pushing for funding cuts for first responders.
As Katrina victims get kicked out of hotels starting today, the President’s budget slashes critical housing programs. Starting today, FEMA is forcing thousands of Katrina evacuees out of the hotels they have been staying in. Adding insult to injury, Bush’s budget calls for substantial cuts in housing programs that would help Katrina victims rebuild their lives, such as the severe cuts to Section 202 and 811, which help the low-income elderly and people with disabilities.
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3 comments:
Aaron...Instead of taking the money out of the hides of needy people, how about just cutting off the tax cuts for the richest people and corps in this country? But then, it's always easiest to kick people when they're down, isn't it?
RE Social Security. Rather than paying on the first $85,000 in wages increase it to the first $125,000.
Income Taxes. Repeal the recent tax break for incomes over $500,000.
Estate Taxes. Raise the cutoff to protect most people. Tax the filthy rich.
Defeat the latest Bush proposal for Social Security reform -- the one slipped into his budget request.
Jim
Who does the stupid ass think Medicare and Medical take care of now? People have to be down to just about nothing before they qualify. As for Social Security, we pay into it, and it doesn't exactly pay back huge bucks (we just got our award letters telling us how much, so I know). Maybe if something was done about the healthcare system and the work situation to make sure there weren't so many people at the poverty level and so many with no health insurance, then we wouldn't need such large entitlement programs.
Barb
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