Bush to Seek Cuts in Medicaid, Benefits

[kuozzman]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=3&u=/ap/20050121/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_benefit_cuts

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) is readying a new budget that would carve savings from Medicaid and other benefit programs, congressional aides and lobbyists say, but it is unclear if he will be able to push the plan through the Republican-run Congress.

White House officials are not saying what Bush's $2.5 trillion 2006 budget will propose saving from such programs, which comprise the biggest and fastest growing part.

But lobbyists and lawmakers' aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, say he will focus on Medicaid, the health-care program for low-income and disabled people. Medicaid costs are split between Washington and the states.

[marc_the_dem]

1. I'd like to say Thanks!

to all the assholes that voted for him!

[SpiralHawk]

19. Thanks a pantload, BushCo

For your Kompassionate Konzervative Krap


"People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you."
- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002

"The goals for this country are peace in the world. And the goals for this country are a compassionate American for every single citizen. That compassion is found in the hearts and souls of the American citizens."
- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2002

"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation , we must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland."
-Adolf Hitler

[grumpy old fart]

2. Gotta pay for eternal war somehow....

Guess all the yellow ribbon SUV drivers will just have to explain it all to granny...

[girl gone mad]

4. Nope. Granny votes, so he's going to cut aid to low-income and disabled...

people instead.

[atreides1]

14. Who Else

In the 20th Century thought that the disabled were a waste of resources?

I'll give you a hint, his name started with the letter H.

[ikojo]

46. MANY Americans in the early 20th century supported the

eugenics movment. It was only after the rise of the Nazis that people started to back away from it.

[rockedthevoteinMA]

3. ...

:grr:
When are people going to wake up?
"he will focus on Medicaid, the health-care program for low-income and disabled people"

The unimportant people - the ones who fight his wars/ have returned from fighting them?

[gWbush is Mabus]

6. .

[radwriter0555]

45. It's too late now. The parties are over, the pig is still in the white

house and he's not running for president any more.

Gosh, maybe he'll run for Governor of California once Arnold is President!

[Marthe48]

5. another giant leap backward

Civilization can be defined on how society treats the elderly and disabled. Even Neanderthals treated their disabled better than monkeyboy does

[VegasWolf]

28. Yes, but bush doesn't believe in evolution, he's an intelligent

designer.

[Marthe48]

39. I didn't think it was possible

to use Bush and intelligent in the same sentence :)

[Jade Fox]

7. So I guess all those Bush campaign/debate concerns about Healthcare...

in the U.S. were bull.

I'm soooooo surprised. :eyes:

[DELUSIONAL]

8. When will the gassing start?

People who are too ill (physically or mentally) to pay their own way -- are a burden on the rich. So they need to be . . . ah . . . terminated. So just withhold or reduce their benefits and let them slowly die.

The next step is round up the useless ones and follow in Hitler's footsteps.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4187823.stm




Nazis 'gassed Hitler's relative'
'Aloisia V' came from a family with a history of mental illness
A member of Adolf Hitler's own family was one of those killed in the Nazi campaign to wipe out the mentally ill, according to two historians.

The woman, named as "Aloisia V", was the great grandchild of Hitler's great aunt - his second cousin, once removed.

She was gassed to death on 6 December 1940, at a mental institution in Austria, historian Timothy Ryback said.

Medical files show she suffered from schizophrenia, depression, delusions and other mental problems, he said.

Aged 49 when she died, she was one of thousands of mentally ill people - considered sub-human by the Nazis - killed or sterilised in a euthanasia programme meant to eliminate them.

[MidwestTransplant]

9. How many poor people on medicaid voted for this

because they were "values" voters?

[Larkspur]

11. How many "poor" people voted?

Sadly, the poor often don't bother to vote.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

25. Sadly, the poor don't have access to a wide variety of news sources

and swallowed the Rovian kool aide.

[American Tragedy]

42. If you don't vote, politicians aren't inclined to protect your interests.

Sorry to say it, but democracy just doesn't work if affected parties do not actively participate and assert their value to public officials. My own demographic, young women, is a great example. If they had all turned out, Bush wouldn't have stood a chance.

[Maddy McCall]

31. Not many in Mississippi.

This was a state-based agenda that began implementation on the state level and the final stroke will be a federal bill.

Poor Mississippians HATE Haley Barbour. We picked up some Democratic support in this past election.

[MountainLaurel]

40. I know one who didn't

My 77-year-old grandmother walked in the rain to vote that day and considered Bush a "butthole." (for a women who at times could swear with the best of him, this is fairly strong for her these days.)

[Q3JR4]

10. Don't blame me, I didn't vote for him. n/t.

[leftofcool]

12. Well, old folks and the disabled poor

are an expendable commodity. <sarcasm off>

Left of Cool

[Javaman]

17. Yeah, they aren't draftable...

[katinmn]

13. Gotta pay for the war(s).

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. Gotta pay for the tax cuts for the already excessively wealthy and

greedy Americans who sacrifice nothing while enjoying all the benefits of this so-called free society.

[ps1074]

15. Actually it will be interesting

to see who will be the republican to vote for this budget in the House and the Senate. Voting for Medicaid cuts means voting yourself out of office.

[American Tragedy]

Bullshit. I only wish you were right.

But a considerable percentage of the American people have endured them for the past four years, seeing what these bastards truly are and their agenda for the nation, and they largely accepted it. The American people are reaping exactly what they have sown in the past two election cycles.

It's a scary question. How far could the Republicans really go, before the electorate finally rejected them?

[leftchick]

16. it has only been a day. Less than 24 hours

Imagine the destruction in the next FOUR years.

[BrotherBuzz]

33. You are so right....

I am reminded of just the first one hundred days of the first Bush*administration and how slack-jawed I was to watch everything I had believed and worked for, for over thirty years, erased - zip - gone. Disenfranchised. I didn't believe it could get worse....it did, and in spades. I simply can't imagine the destruction in the next FOUR years. I just don't think I can....

[cornermouse]

18. How about starting the cuts with YOUR salary, George?

And then we can move on to cutting back the humongous salaries and benefits our Congress receives.

[Maddy McCall]

32. No, cut his corporate perks.

That's where he gets his wealth.

[drscm]

20. If only we could get all the "low income and disabled" to sign up for the

military, then *bush could kill this expensive program along with those pesky people who drain our resources.

Christian Compassionate Conservatism? I guess he skips over the those useless prophets and gospels when he "reads" the bible.

[sonicx]

21. "unclear if he will be able to push the plan through the Republican-run"

who writes this shit!?!? OF COURSE he will be able to!!!! :grr:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. More compassionate conservatism

Or is it come piss on it?

[tlcandie]

23. As they all die off, there just might be a land/home grab in Florida!

:cry:

[Malva Zebrina]

24. Make them suffer by removing aid and they will be forced to go to a

faith based charity church that will receive the tax payer money.

They will be humiliated, but they are used ot that, and forced to confess their loyalty to Jesus and become a member of that church, just so they can survive, eat and do the ordinary things of daily living.

and it will be done on tax payer money, without ANY accountability from those churches as to how the money is spent.

It is the benchmark of a civilized society as to how they take care of their less enabled. If we care for them, the society is stronger, not weaker.

But it seems, with even Hillary Clinton apparently pushing for it, this society will be driven by churches and religions who will get money to take care of these unfortunates and they will not even have to tell us where or how it was spent.

[Deja Q]

26. Thanks * voters... you might be waking up sooner than you thought.

x(

[Rose Siding]

36. I don't think they will ever connect any of this to him.

Willful blindness. How much heat did Reagan ever take on the right for his policies about mental institutions?

[VegasWolf]

29. but, but, bush is a mentallly disabled dry drunk.n/t

[w4rma]

30. He killed off a bunch of them by not getting enough flu vaccine, I guess

this is the next step.

[VegasWolf]

34. Exactly, you gotta think that SOMEBODY in the Health and Human

services office woke up before the end of September and
bothered to ask how the vaccines were coming along for the year.

[llmart]

35. I'm speechless.....

There aren't enough adjectives left to describe how I hate this bastard. There's a special place in hell for the likes of him and his family.

[Melynn]

37. Welcome to the second term

Bush's attitude is, "Hey, I've been reelected and I'm not going to run again so why should I care. I do what I want. Thanks.....SUCKERS!!".

[Politicub]

38. What an evil asshole

I'm not surprised that he would cut the programs that benefit the neediest among us. He is evil, through and through.

[DeepModem Mom]

41. kick

[kath]

43. Wow, what a surprise! NOT.

[Moderator]

44. Kick

:kick: