Women and Children First
Followed by cops and firefighters. You can screw science, as well. But rest easy, defense spending will increase under the latest stimulus plan changes.
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
Oh, the upcoming headlines are going to be brutal, mainly because they will write themselves. My conclusion: There is no such thing as a moderate in Washington.
1. I’m betting that there will be no headlines on this. There seems to be little understanding in the traditional media what the stimulus is to do in the first place and what they really want to report on ins the back and forth between Rs and Ds anyway.
2. If there was any justice, this would put the nail in the coffin of any real moderation claims for any federal politician. This piece of so-called moderation is just performance art. Designed to help them look like they saved the day.
3. There is no rhyme or reason for what these guys have done here. The real arbitrariness of this set of actions proves to me that these people have no clue. Not one.
I’m starting to think that I should run for the Senate. 💡
Increases:
Defense operations and procurement,
Who was that guy over at Tommywonk saying that the Iraq war was a good economic stimulus?
Hmmm?
From Jen Hill, SEIU:
As of last night our Senator Carper has signed on to the Nelson
Collins amendment.
The amendment will reduce the overall spending and significantly
reduce public school spending, IDEA, head start and the state
stabilization fund. As you all know Delaware is in dire financial
straits and will be cutting thousands of jobs without the package –
education and state workers will be affected, but so will our kids.
The cuts total somewhere around $77.9 billion from the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Please call him and ask him to withdraw his support for the amendment.
202-224-2441
Moderates hate education and love war?
Where are they getting these ideas of where to cut. I have a feeling that they came in with a number, they didn’t want it to be higher than when it was sent to them and they’d look foolish cutting their own additions. Still education cuts?
June,
What a jerk.
I am losing the heart to call his office time and again and has my face spit into time and again.
Again, you miss the point.
If you get an increase in spending it is an increase.
If you reduce the amount of the increase it is not a cut.
I’m still thinking (hoping) that cutting cops, firefighters, and teachers might be a tempting, easily understood headline.
And, Cassandra, you should run for office!
Spamming Protack, it’s you who misses the point. States are facing having to cut police, firefighters and teachers. This part of the stimulus sought to avoid having states make those cuts.