They still insist on trying to balance budget on backs of neediest

[dajoki]

NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/politics/07spend.html?ex=1299387600&en=21701b90b9ad8309&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

House Conservatives Prepare Austere Alternative Budget

By CARL HULSE
Published: March 7, 2006

WASHINGTON, March 6 — With Congress heading into a politically perilous budget season, influential House conservatives plan this week to propose an austere alternative spending plan that would pare more than $650 billion over five years, balance the budget and drastically shrink three cabinet agencies.

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Senior aides say the conservatives' plan would wring about $350 billion from Medicare, Medicaid and other social programs and save $300 billion partly through a major reorganization of the Education, Commerce and Energy Departments.

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The new budget proposal is certain to be assailed by Democrats who accuse Republicans of forging ahead with tax cuts that benefit the affluent and add to the deficit while reducing support for those most in need.

"This president will have piled up more debt than all of the presidents preceding him," Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the senior Democrat on the Budget Committee, said Monday as he joined other Democrats in accusing Republicans of shortchanging domestic security.

[rodeodance]

1. and Congress will give back a few bucks, clap themselves on the back

and all is well.

[ReadTomPaine]

2. God Money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised

God Money's not one to choose.

[undergroundpanther]

3. As long as the resentful comfortable "middle class"

Don't feel the pinch..yet....They can afford to say who cares about the poor?..after all they"chose" to be incarnated as a poor person born in the wrong family or "made themselves" poor.. (sarcasm,But still it's the sick ass additude of too many "fortunate" people.)

[dajoki]

4. that is correct...

it's the sick ass additude of too many "fortunate" people

[Warpy]

5. They are now brazenly raiding civil service pensions

in order to try to stay under the present debt limit.

Congress has to act and soon. Even the Repugs know this profligate spender has got to be reined in. Let's hope they start with the Pentagon.

[dajoki]

7. like my grandpa used to say...

wish in one hand and crap in the other.

[AzDar]

6. They are not in the LEAST interested in balancing the budget. It

is simply stealing from those who need it the most, to enrich those who need it the least.
Meanwhile, the deficits continue to soar to horrifying new heights....

[bluerum]

8. Exactly. They have no interest in balancing anyones budget. It

is opportunism and corruption. Taking until there is nothing left to take. The economy will collapse when they can no longer sell bonds to the rest of the world and we are so economically weak we can no longer wage war on even the smallest country.

[dajoki]

16. which is happening now n/t

[BeerIsClear]

9. They can't

They can't cut back these social programs, because they fulfill the constitutional obligation of "maintenance in old age, in sickness, and in the event of complete or partial disability or loss of the breadwinner."

[dajoki]

11. welcome to DU BeerIsClear...

but they can do anything they want.

[NMMNG]

10. Well, it's not like those sick, elderly and disabled people

need that money anyway. The quicker they die the sooner they stop being a burden on the system. :sarcasm:

[dajoki]

13. i agree about the sarcasm...

but many thugs truly think like that. i saw santorum on tv last week telling senior citizens not to sign over their money and possesions to family members so they could be taken by the state for nursing home care. he said it's not the right thing to do. now that's compassion for you.:sarcasm:

[NMMNG]

14. I know they think like that

They don't give a crap about anybody they consider a "drain on the system". If you're too old, too sick, too disabled to contribute you should just die (their posturing about Terri Shiavo notwithstanding). They're a bunch of heartless bastards.

[dajoki]

15. Amen!!

[Mountainman]

12. We knew why they were running up the deficit. To starve off the social

programs.

I think a message for Dems might be, we little folks pay taxes too. We should get some of our money back in the social programs. The government should take care of their own people.