This is what Republican Senators want cut from the Stimulus bill..(DO SOMETHING!)

[EraOfResponsibility]

(from HuffPo)

I found this off of HuffPo:

I’ve just obtained an internal Senate committee memo detailing the latest cuts being eyed by the gang of Senators being led by Dem Ben Nelson and GOPer Susan Collins. Here is what’s being eyed in the bill right now:

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Total Reductions: $80 billion

Eliminations:

Head Start, Education for the Disadvantaged, School improvement, Child Nutrition, Firefighters, Transportation Security Administration, Coast Guard, Prisons, COPS Hiring, Violence Against Women, NASA, NSF, Western Area Power Administration, CDC, Food Stamps

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Reductions:

Public Transit $3.4 billion, School Construction $60 billion

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Increases:

Defense operations and procurement, STAG Grants, Brownfields, Additional transportation funding

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Nelson spokesperson Clay Westrope confirms the authenticity of the memo, adding that the figures obviously could change. But this is currently the general direction.

As you can see the amount being cut appears to have fallen, to a total of $80 billion, though Westrope says the actual number is closer to $100 billion. Also, it appears some of those cuts are being maintained even as defense funds appear to be getting added.

Head Start? Food Stamps? School Nutrition? Violence Against Women? This just proves the GOP are some heartless, soulless sacks of skin. I’m calling and faxing as much as possible.




We've got to call these fuckers RIGHT NOW!!!! I'm fixin to get on the phone, here is the link to Senator phone numbers (and you can fax them, also)

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm


LET'S GET TO WORK, PEOPLE!!!!!!!

[BattyDem]

1. So basically ... anything that would help people should be cut.

WTF is the point of doing this if all the money goes to tax cuts and defense?

[EraOfResponsibility]

3. exactly. PLEAS EPEOPLE

Email and/or call EVERYONE you know and tell them about this and tell THEM to call their Senators. We can't get let these fuckers get away with this

[high density]

4. Because not enough money has gone to those two items in the past eight years

:crazy:

[trueblue2007]

2. We NEED these programs!!!

[Skidmore]

5. We need some leading senators to get their asses out in front of

the cameras and talk candidly to the people. Why aren't they calling the cable shows and demanding to be heard on the air? They need to talk to the people directly. AND they need to hold off doing anything with this until Obama speaks to the nation on Monday.

[LibDemAlways]

6. The only item on that list I agree should be

cut is TSA. As currently implemented it is a monumental waste of taxpayer dollars. Everything else should not even be negotiable.