Repugs to Poor: Fuck You!

House Approves Budget Cutbacks of $39.5 Billion

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 — House Republicans eked out a victory on a $39.5 billion budget-cutting package on Wednesday, with a handful of skittish Republicans switching their votes at the last minute in opposition to reductions in spending on health and education programs.

The vote helped President Bush deliver on his promise to rein in federal spending while underscoring deep anxiety within his party over cutting social welfare programs in an election year.

The measure represents the first major effort by lawmakers since 1997 to cut the growth of so-called entitlement programs, including student loans, crop subsidies and Medicaid...

Is it just me, or doesn't it seem like MUCH greater savings could be achieved if we were to rein in our war-machine? I mean, honestly, the part of the budget that's out of control isn't student loans and farming subsidies. But, nah...let's not fix the problem. Let's take this opportunity to fuck the poor. They don't need healthcare. If they get sick and die, that's just god's way of saying, "you've failed to be significant contributors to the Repuke coffers". And screw higher education. We don't need a more intelligent populus, just more cannon fodder.

The spending bill, which covers a five-year period ending in 2010, will achieve savings of $6.4 billion in Medicare, the health care program for the elderly, through a variety of changes that include higher premiums for all beneficiaries, with steeper increases for the more affluent and a freeze in payments to home health care providers.

In the Medicaid health care program for the poor and disabled, $4.8 billion will be saved in part by increasing co-payments and reducing payments for prescription drugs.

Mr. Bush said that he looked forward to signing the legislation and that the budget proposal he would send to Congress on Monday "will continue to build on the spending restraint we have achieved."

SPENDING RESTRAINT!! Has the Pretzeldent gone completely insane?? What about the Republican's orgiastic war-chest spending?? Jesus with a DU tipped butt-plug! Really, I don't think an administration could do more damage unless every U.S. citizen not pulling down $50k or ore a year was lined up to have their colons perforated by the splintered end of a broom. Here's what the war-profiteer-in-chief actually meant to say: "we continue to build on our mountain of bad Karma by fucking those in this country who most need assistance, while at the same time continuing to murder dark-skinned poor people in the rest of the world and funneling hundreds of billions of dollars to my rich, war-mongering supporters who facilitate the killing".

But Mr. Boehlert, one of three Republicans to vote against a recent tax-cutting bill, said he had become convinced that entitlement programs must be revamped before they gobbled up the entire federal budget.

If by "entitlement programs" he meant the hundreds of billions of dollars Congress has approved to be flushed down the toilet of an illegal and immoral war, then I'm in full agreement. If he actually meant entitlement programs like healthcare, farming, and education subsidies then what fucking planet is he from that he thinks a 200-plus billion dollar a year military budget is in any way at risk of being gobbled up?

But conservatives, who pushed hard within their caucus for the cuts, were delighted. Representative Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana, a leader of a group of House conservatives, called the vote "a step toward restoring public confidence in the fiscal integrity of our national legislature."

...and about a thousand steps away from restoring public confidence that Repugnants give any kind of a crap at all about the American people.

So our moron in chief is pretty proud of cutting $40 billion over five years. It astounds me that he fails to realize that he could save over five times that amount in a single year if he would end the war in Iraq.