Some of the programs cut in the Bush budget
141 programs total will receive cuts, including 42 education programs.
Some program cut highlights include:
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program, which provides food for low-income elderly Americans.
The Preventive Care Block Grant, which maintains preventive health care services for underserved Americans.
The Community Serivces Block Grant, which gives states and federally-recognized Native American tribes funds to provide services for low-income families, the elderly and the disabled, including programs designed to help at risk marriages. On February 26th, 2002, Bush said, "My administration will give unprecedented support to strengthening marriages. Many good programs help couples who want to get married and stay married." There will now be less of those programs, which is ironic considering how supposedly important marriage (at least between a man and a woman) is to this administration.
A 26% cut in Section 202 housing for low-income families.
A 30% cut in the Community Development Block Grant.
A 79% cut in the Community Oriented Policing Services.
A $1.03 billion cut in the Child Care and Development Block Grant, resulting in some 400,000 fewer children receiving child care.
Medicaid cuts which would throw the funding burden back on individual states, forcing them to scale back eligibility or services for the elderly, low-income families and children. We already saw how well that went over here in Missouri with Boy Governor Matt Blunt learning that kicking children and grandmothers off the rolls is a quick way to piss people off.
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the savings these cuts would acheive would be far outweighed by the 2001/2003 tax cuts which benefit primarily the wealthy. CBPP figures that making those cuts permanent would furish the top 1% of households in the country with over $900 billion over the next 10 years.
Where's the money going?
$79 billion increase in spending over the next five years. That's an increase, not a total amount. According to some budget analysts, the overall budget of the Pentagon would receive a 7% increase. As it stands, the Pentagon budget is 45% bigger now than when Bush took office.
Just something to think about.
Some program cut highlights include:
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program, which provides food for low-income elderly Americans.
The Preventive Care Block Grant, which maintains preventive health care services for underserved Americans.
The Community Serivces Block Grant, which gives states and federally-recognized Native American tribes funds to provide services for low-income families, the elderly and the disabled, including programs designed to help at risk marriages. On February 26th, 2002, Bush said, "My administration will give unprecedented support to strengthening marriages. Many good programs help couples who want to get married and stay married." There will now be less of those programs, which is ironic considering how supposedly important marriage (at least between a man and a woman) is to this administration.
A 26% cut in Section 202 housing for low-income families.
A 30% cut in the Community Development Block Grant.
A 79% cut in the Community Oriented Policing Services.
A $1.03 billion cut in the Child Care and Development Block Grant, resulting in some 400,000 fewer children receiving child care.
Medicaid cuts which would throw the funding burden back on individual states, forcing them to scale back eligibility or services for the elderly, low-income families and children. We already saw how well that went over here in Missouri with Boy Governor Matt Blunt learning that kicking children and grandmothers off the rolls is a quick way to piss people off.
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the savings these cuts would acheive would be far outweighed by the 2001/2003 tax cuts which benefit primarily the wealthy. CBPP figures that making those cuts permanent would furish the top 1% of households in the country with over $900 billion over the next 10 years.
Where's the money going?
$79 billion increase in spending over the next five years. That's an increase, not a total amount. According to some budget analysts, the overall budget of the Pentagon would receive a 7% increase. As it stands, the Pentagon budget is 45% bigger now than when Bush took office.
Just something to think about.
posted by QuakerJono | 12:29 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home