Tuesday, February 14, 2006
More More More, How do ya like it?
I could post stuff like this every day:
If enacted, the 2007 budget would eliminate federal programs that support inner-city Indian health clinics, defibrillators in rural areas, an educational campaign about Alzheimer's disease, centers for traumatic brain injuries, and a nationwide registry for Lou Gehrig's disease. It would cut close to $1 billion in health care grants to states and would kill the entire budget of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center.We can always save money by postponing the next discretionary war.
In a $2.8 trillion budget, the amounts involved may seem minuscule, but proponents argue that the health care projects Bush has singled out are the "ultimate homeland security," as Vinay Nadkarni put it. The spokesman for the American Heart Association said he cannot fathom why the administration has recommended eliminating a $1.5 million program that provides defibrillators to rural communities and trains local personnel on how to use the machines to restart hearts that go into cardiac arrest.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Let's not forget about this little tidbit:
"The federal government is on the verge of one of the biggest giveaways of oil and gas in American history, an estimated $7 billion during five years.
New projections, buried in the Interior Department's just-published budget plan, anticipate the government will let companies pump about $65 billion worth of oil and natural gas from federal territory in the next five years without paying any royalties to the government."
$7 billion down the tube, money that could have been used to keep the above-noted programs afloat. But, nooooooo, this administration has to pilfer and raid the taxpayers to give away oil to the already psychotically rich oil companies.
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"The federal government is on the verge of one of the biggest giveaways of oil and gas in American history, an estimated $7 billion during five years.
New projections, buried in the Interior Department's just-published budget plan, anticipate the government will let companies pump about $65 billion worth of oil and natural gas from federal territory in the next five years without paying any royalties to the government."
$7 billion down the tube, money that could have been used to keep the above-noted programs afloat. But, nooooooo, this administration has to pilfer and raid the taxpayers to give away oil to the already psychotically rich oil companies.
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