Cuts O' Plenty
Durst, Will
Off the Map Will Durst Cuts O' Plenty You know what surprises me most about Bush's new budget proposal? I'll tell you what surprises me most about Bush's new budget proposal. What surprises me...
...For the rest of you, this might be a good time to check out your horoscope or some of the cheerier comic strips like Family Circus...
...250 million cut from programs to train doctors and other health care professionals so rich people can have more money...
...Did the political comic Will Durst mention most of these cuts are necessary to ensure that rich people can have more money...
...His tax cuts for the rich: Not only do they remain in defiance of the largest deficit ever, but King Leerer intends to fight to make them permanent...
...However, for any program involving anybody who isn't rich, oh yes, cuts do exist...
...Because he meant to mention most of these cuts are necessary to ensure that rich people can have more money...
...Ending community services block grants, a $637 million program founded more than thirty-five years ago as part of the fight against poverty, so rich people can have more money...
...Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who do...
...Cutting federal foster care programs so rich people can have more money...
...Federal Drug Administration inspection teams sacked so rich people can have more money...
...That's the deal: Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are...
...And I don't use the term "ruling class" lightly...
...Small Business Administration cut from $611 million to $593 million so rich people can have more money...
...For those of you with a strong stomach and a low threshold of infuriation, feel free to read on...
...That's what surprises me most about Bush's new budget proposal...
...Here's just a sample of what he plans for our future with a handy reminder of why...
...Increase on charges for veterans' health care so rich people can have more money...
...If you're a Republican, we take away the stick, because it's considered an entitlement...
...Poor people poorer...
...Proposed cuts in aid to farmers, seniors, children, students, cops, veterans, the homeless, the hungry, the environment, Amtrak, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention so rich people can have more money...
...What are we now: The Gorgar People...
...An 11 percent reduction in Homeland Security funds available to state and local coordination efforts so rich people can have more money...
...Tighter restrictions on Food Stamp eligibility so rich people can have more money...
...And that the ruling class lets Bush get away with this potentially revolutionary inciting crap...
...Highway and infrastructure improvement budgets slashed so rich people can have more money...
...And the poor less...
...Gutting the low-income home energy assistance program, which is mostly used by the elderly...
...You hit sixty-five, we ship you to the Aleutian Islands and place you on an ice floe with matches and a pointy stick...
...Cuts to the bone, unless those bones happen to be located in the vicinity of the cholesterol-laden limb of a fat cat...
...Cuts o' plenty...
...Severe cuts...
...That's how President Fredo says we're going to get out of the giant deficit hole he's dug...
...Apparently the plan is to balance the budget on the nutritionally deprived uninsured backs of the inadequately medicated poor...
...Rich people richer...
...You can't put it any more simply...
...Cutting Medicaid and Medicare benefits so rich people can have more money...
...That's right, friends, he's cutting winter heating subsidies to the elderly so rich people can have more money...
...What surprises me most about Bush's new budget proposal is that the front gates of the White House aren't being knocked down by legions of outraged clergy armed with spiked bats and pitchforks and acetylene torches screaming for the head of any of the leering corporate lackeys possessing even the remotest of roles in submitting this moral crime against humanity to Congress...
...Because you can't hear it too much...
Vol. 69 • April 2005 • No. 4
