Bush: Katrina recovery requires spending cuts

[onenote]

That's what it says on CNN. Well, let's think about this for a moment. He sure as hell isn't going to cut spending for the military or homeland security. And he doesn't dare touch various pork barrel projects loved by members of Congress. So that leaves social programs...yep, that's the ticket. Katrina exposes for all the world to see the hidden scandal of poverty in America and Bush's response is going to be to shred what little is left of the safety net for the Americans who are most in need...the poor, the infirm, the elderly.

Roll back tax cuts for the wealthy ...hell no. Dump on the disenfranchised (at least the one's that didn't drown)..yep.

Screw him.

onenote

[lindisfarne]

1. Could cut corporate welfare. n/t

[onenote]

3. And pigs will fly ...

[katsy]

4. Hi lindisfarne!

:hi:

Cutting corporate welfare requires a sane economic policy.

:crazy:

[KerryOn]

17. Someone help us. "We are in dept....

.... up to our eyeballs."

The government is in debt and so are we...

The average credit card debt of Americans per house hold is about $8,400.

So in a nut shell, America is not the richest country in the world when it comes to cash. (And China owns much of the worlds gold, which spells big trouble for us, if something is not done.)

[Team44Car]

2. Things just got a little meaner

[swag]

5. I thought Tom Delay said that Congress had cut to the bone

and that the job was done.

[TomClash]

6. STOP the WAR!

and he'll get all the spending cuts he needs!

[zanne]

7. He tries to use everything to his advantage...

Even the tragedies he creates.

[tanyev]

8. Tax cuts are a fine idea...

as long as every single politician and lobbyist who fights for them agrees to work for free and never again receive a paycheck or any sort of perk from the government.

[FormerRepublican]

9. Immediate cuts in the congressional and executive office salaries...

I want to see that first before anything else.

Otherwise, it's just more Bush bull*.

[MichiganVote]

10. If you're poor and not in the Gulf, you're screwed.

If you're middle class and your kids are in college, you're screwed.

If you're single, you're screwed.

If you work in the federal government, education or community services, you're screwed.

If you're mentally ill, you're screwed.

But if you're an Iraqi, you're GOOD TO GO, UNLESS, you get killed, then you're screwed.

If you're wealthy, you're safe.

If you're a corporation, you're in control and safe.

[katsy]

11. Well said!

:applause:

[NeoConsSuck]

12. It works out perfectly for the slimeballs..

they'll cut programs for the poor to give to the hurricane poor. Meanwhile, corporations that donated to the pukes will be awarded the reconstruction contracts.

In the end, everybody loses except for the same group who has always won under this misadministration, corporations.

[CoffeeCat]

13. Oh boy! Junior will "CUT" all right!

He'll cut the following things:

--Programs that help the poor

--Taxes on yachts

--Social Security

--Taxes for Those Who Own More Than One Luxury SUV

--Environmental Programs

--Taxes on Beluga Caviar

--School Lunch Programs

--Taxes on those who own more than 3 homes

Junior will CUT all right!! Let's watch while he 'starvies the beast' and feeds the gluttons, all at the same time!

[bluestateguy]

14. My list

1. Bring all troops home from Iraq

2. Close down the Selective Service System

3. Close down the White House "Drug czar" office

See, I can do the small government thing too.

[savemefromdumbya]

15. Since Bush didn't bother to prepare for the Hurricane he can pay

Bush can pay out of his own pocket

[Disturbed]

18. The Neo Fascist Agenda

Liberal Accomplishments


Social Security;

Medicare-Medicaid;

PeaceCorps;

unemployment insurance;

welfare (for the poor andcorporate);

civil rights;

student grant and loan programs;

safety laws (OSHA);

environmental laws;

prevailing wagelaws;

right to collective bargaining (which brought about

paid medical insurance, paid vacations, pensions, etc.);

workers' compensation;

Marshall Plan;

flood-disasterinsurance;

School Lunch Program;

women's rights.

Fair Labor Standards Act, which
established a minimum wage, instituted child labor laws,
and set up time-and-a-half pay for over a 40-hour week.

FHA-HUD with its public housing, urban
renewal and 44 million residential homes (before WWII
almost 70 percent of our nation were renters; by the 1970s
this had been reversed).

farm-conservation
subsidies -- USDA programs,

Farmers Home Administration (the
bankers didn't want to make rural loans),

small flood-control lakes (more than 3,000 in Oklahoma alone),
rural water districts, rural electricity (REA).

The GI Bill was passed, which the Republicans at the
time bitterly opposed.

FDIC and FSLIC, insuring their deposits, and
saved Wall Street with the establishment of the Securities
Exchange Commission.

Neo Fascist Agenda: Destroy all of the above!

[savemefromdumbya]

21. Banana republic, junta - all these terms spring to mind?

This country will be no better than the ones we impose tinpot dictators in.

[Gloria]

16. So what will our Democrats do now?

Will they dare to suggest taxing the wealthy a bit more. Even Clinton has come down off his Bush cloud for a moment to suggest it....

Frankly, we've been cornered again. Remember, we WAITED to go after Bush and waited and waited...now, we're boxed in again.

I'm disgusted.

[zbdent]

19. Hey, George, there's a bridge in Alaska that'll save you

about $200 MILLION!

[DemInDistress]

20. Oil Industry had made a 62 billion dollar profit

during the first 90 days of this year.Profits that large definitely
need to see a "Windfall Profit Tax".If those gains continue and no doubt they will until year's end that would add up to est.230 billion
dollars,that's where the Katrina money should come from,read it here..

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0915-04.htm

[ulysses]

22. of course!

Nothing like a tragic disaster to help push through your ideology.