'06 budget remains a scandalous lie - scathing piece

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'06 budget remains a scandalous lie

Since early spring, Republican aggies in both the House and the Senate have warned their farm and ranch constituents that farm program spending will be cut $3 billion over five years beginning with the 2006 federal budget.

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You lie and you lie over and over — from California to Iowa to Pennsylvania — that much of the 2007 Farm Bill debate will center on farmers and ranchers "doing their share" to cut the fat budget deficits the nation is due to suffer in the coming decade.

Almost pathologically, however, you skate past any assessment of who's responsible for flipping a projected $5.6 trillion, 10–year federal budget surplus you inherited when you took office into a farm program–busting, food stamp–cutting, Medicare–snipping, grandchildren–cracking $2.47 trillion, 10–year budget deficit.

That's how you do it: You artfully deceive a blissfully misinformed nation that the medicine now needed is a large dose of spending cuts while you quietly slip the country's best–off two more spoonfuls of sugar.

http://www.thehawkeye.com/columns/Guebert/Guebert_1001.html

This Op-Ed was pointed out over on Daily Kos:

Rural Op-ed -- Republicans Lie and Lie

by Prairie Logic
Sat Oct 1st, 2005 at 14:32:16 PDT

Alan Guebert, a free-lance agricultural journalist from Illinois whose column appears weekly in more than 70 rural newspapers throughout the US and Canada, wrote a blistering Op-ed this week describing how the Republicans sell their warped agenda to the country:

They lie as they wrap themselves in the flag and God...

"How can a fast-track budget bill that contains both $35 billion in spending cuts and $70 billion in tax breaks over the next five years be sold as fiscal conservatism?

Easy, you travel the country (on the taxpayer tab) to speechify from flag-draped stages (where you begin and end by invoking God's blessing on the nation) and then you lie."

But Guebert doesn't stop there... he continues on and rips them a new one describing their lies repeatedly...

Prairie Logic's diary :: ::
...in words artfully chosen, Guebert ticks off their deceptions...

"You lie by saying the nation cannot afford..."

"You lie by not breathing a word that the two tax goodies..."

"You lie by not hinting that $37.1 billion of the $70 billion tax cut..."

"You lie by somehow overlooking that 78 percent of the two tax favors..."

"You lie and you lie over and over--from California to Iowa to Pennsylvania..."

...then calls them pathologically irresponsible...

"Almost pathologically, however, you skate past any assessment of who's responsible for flipping a projected $5.6 trillion, 10-year federal budget surplus you inherited when you took office into a farm program-busting, Food Stamp-cutting, Medicare-snipping, grandchildren-cracking $2.47 trillion, 10-year budget deficit."

...and deceitful...

"...you artfully deceive a blissfully misinformed nation that the medicine now needed is a large dose of spending cuts while you quietly slip the country's best-off two more spoonfuls of sugar."

...and scandalous...

"And then, as the nation reels under the twin effects of massive pork barrel spending and a projected rebuilding tab of more than $200 billion for two "unbudgeted" hurricanes, you maintain that the scandalous reconciliation bill--with its scandalous, deficit-ballooning tax breaks--is still the best way for the nation to resolve its upcoming budget woes."

...and finishes by calling them naked!

"And then, as the budget-cutting, fat-cat-enhancing budget parade continues on to its predetermined end, you hope that no innocent, math-inclined kid along the route points out you're naked as a jay bird."

Yes... this article revolves around the farm program... an archaic relic to most not involved in agriculture. But remember that this Op-ed is being published across the farm belt... in mostly red states. We need more of this out in Bush country -- in "What's the Matter With Kansas" land -- to continue hammering home just how utterly bankrupt these policies are.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/1/173216/143