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Republicans plan massive cuts to programs for the poor

"Under enormous internal pressure to quickly balance the budget, Republicans are considering slashing more than $400 billion in spending through a process to evade Democratic filibusters in the Senate, multiple sources told POLITICO.

The proposal, which would be part of the House Budget Committee's fiscal 2018 budget, won't specify which programs would get the ax; instead it will instruct committees to figure out what to cut to reach the savings. But among the programs most likely on the chopping block, the sources say, are food stamps, welfare, income assistance for the disabled and perhaps even veterans benefits.

If enacted, such a plan to curb safety-net programs — all while juicing the Pentagon’s budget and slicing corporate tax rates — would amount to the biggest shift in federal spending priorities in decades.

Atop that, GOP budget writers will also likely include Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) proposal to essentially privatize Medicare in their fiscal 2018 budget, despite Trump’s unwavering rejection of the idea. While that proposal is more symbolic and won’t become law under this budget, it’s just another thorny issue that will have Democrats again accusing Republicans of “pushing Granny off the cliff."

 

Some days, this place reads like a really shitty version of The Onion.

 

You should change your name to The Link Factory. Or Link Inc. Or even Linkin' Log.

 

Republicans in N.C. ram through a "fuck you Democrats" budget amendment at 3 am.

But OMG you guys! The Democrats need to learn how to compromise and work with the other side!

Republicans in N.C. Senate cut education funding - but only in Democratic districts | Reading Eagle - AP

 

Jiffy Lube

Why the hell did I just think of "Jiffy Lube"?

 

"Enormous internal pressure to balance the budget"? From who? From what? They don't give a fuck about balancing the budget except when a mooslim neegro or other democrat is in the WH.

They want to destroy everything the government does to help anybody, except white billionaires. And the war machine.

 

Some days the foolishness coming out of the White House and Congress reads like a really shitty version of The Onion.

 

Good God. I don't know how that can possibly be defended. It's not like there are not children of Republicans in those districts, setting aside the essential wrongness of it.

 

LOL ... you kinda breezed past the part in that article that said Trump was dead set against cutting Social Security/Medicare, which is kinda funny given your daily rants about Trump being fixated on eliminating those programs.

 

They're defending it though. The talking points are: "Neener, neener, neener. The dems did it first!!!!" because Democrats were in control for 100 years and at various points in time during that period did shady shit. The second is "We didn't cut funding!!!!" because the net spending stays the same, it just gets reallocated from extremely poor black counties represented by Democrats to poor white counties represented by Republicans.

 

Explains his popularity throughout the South.

Trump thinks that exercising too much uses up the body’s ‘finite’ energy

 

Trump has SAID he's against cutting Social Security and Medicare, but since he said the same thing about Medicaid, and then signed on to cuts of $880 billion in that program, there's not so much reason to believe him.