BREAKING: Bush budget seeks to freeze most domestic

programs and seeks to save $250 Billion in Medicaid benefits.

MSNBC TV



Looks like he's making a very ominous move.

The Iraq war was designed to bankrupt the federal government by sending billions of dollars to defense contractors.

God bless the brave patriots that supported a stupid illegal war that has lead to the death of millions.

"It is estimated that 42.9 million Americans will be enrolled in 2004 (19.7 million of them children) at a total cost of $295 billion. Medicaid payments assist nearly 60 percent of all nursing home residents and about 37 percent of all childbirths in the United States."

So he is going to cut nearly the entire budget? Or just 10% of it every year for a decade? Either way, people will die.

Well, I'm sure all of the old people and all of the children who normally receive this payments can just die, then.

Asshole.

But you know what?...he is targeting the poor because he knows that the Democratic party will not stand up for the poor. They only talk about the middle class. John Edwards is gone, and with it, all hopes for the poor to have anything to look forward to in this country.

If food stamps and unemployment benefits are not included in an economic stimulus package, why would I believe that the Democrats will fight to keep Medicaid funded when his Mighty Emperor Pissypants wants to cut it?

Bush senses the weakness and lack of populism in our party brought on by the corporate DLC and their stranglehold on the party. He knows the battles he can win, and he takes them....every time.

After all, lowering the population will help protect the environment (GOP version of ecological responsibility). :eyes:
:sarcasm:

And the pillaging of the U.S. continues.

You were expecting maybe something else??

My wife (an RN) will be happy (not) she says that medicaid does not fund enough as it is (she is a DON at a nursing home, tough job believe me).:-(

Shades of Herbert Hoover.

Models indicate that excessive governmental borrowing has a drag effect on the economy. So, this is sort of a rock and hard place. Cut GS and the economy slows. Don't cut it and continue to borrow, and the economy slows.

The only solution at the onset of a recession is to raise revenues in ways that it has the least effect on buying power.

Of course, we here know what that means, but Silverspoon sure ain't going to do that!
The Professor

A freeze in spending levels is really a cut in real spending terms, cuts to education, cuts to health care, to infrastructure repairs/maintenance, etc.

growth forests, just to pay for services.

This way, if the dems don't make the cuts, and hopefully they don't, he can blame the deficit on them.

and never ever himself. Is it pitchforks and torches time yet?

Those millionaires need our help.

Dubya's intent in seeking to "freeze" domestic programs: death by hypothermia.

having an impact. It is truly horrifying what he has done to this country. I continually feel like I'm reading about a dictator in a banana republic somewhere who continues to put the screws to the people. We have no idea....