we hates them
Bush's Popularity Reaches New Low
By Richard Morin and Dan Balz
The Washington Post
Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman said Bush will rally support through such issues as education reform, changes to the tax code, and a new energy strategy to show the public that he "will continue to push for changes in our government to serve the American people."
Serve them with what? Serve them up to poverty and despair is more like it.
Food Stamp Cuts Are On Table
House Plan Would Affect 300,000
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
The food stamp cuts in the House measure would knock nearly 300,000 people off nutritional assistance programs, including 70,000 legal immigrants, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. [...]
About 40,000 children would lose eligibility for free or reduced-price school lunches, the CBO estimated. [...]
A separate House measure would scale back federal administrative aid to state child-support enforcement programs, saving the federal government nearly $5 billion over five years but potentially cutting child-support collections even more. [...]
Still another House provision would roll back a court-ordered expansion of foster care support, denying foster care payments to relatives who take in children removed from their parents' homes by court order. That provision would reduce the coverage of foster care payments to about 4,000 children a month and cut $397 million from the program through 2010, the CBO said. [...]
Compassionate conservatives, my ass.
"It blows my mind, because [unlike conservatives] we don't have to put the word
'compassionate' in front of it to say we actually give a shit about people.
I'm going to keep saying 'liberal' as loud as I can and as often as I can." - George Clooney
By Richard Morin and Dan Balz
The Washington Post
Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman said Bush will rally support through such issues as education reform, changes to the tax code, and a new energy strategy to show the public that he "will continue to push for changes in our government to serve the American people."
Serve them with what? Serve them up to poverty and despair is more like it.
Food Stamp Cuts Are On Table
House Plan Would Affect 300,000
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
The food stamp cuts in the House measure would knock nearly 300,000 people off nutritional assistance programs, including 70,000 legal immigrants, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. [...]
About 40,000 children would lose eligibility for free or reduced-price school lunches, the CBO estimated. [...]
A separate House measure would scale back federal administrative aid to state child-support enforcement programs, saving the federal government nearly $5 billion over five years but potentially cutting child-support collections even more. [...]
Still another House provision would roll back a court-ordered expansion of foster care support, denying foster care payments to relatives who take in children removed from their parents' homes by court order. That provision would reduce the coverage of foster care payments to about 4,000 children a month and cut $397 million from the program through 2010, the CBO said. [...]
Compassionate conservatives, my ass.
"It blows my mind, because [unlike conservatives] we don't have to put the word
'compassionate' in front of it to say we actually give a shit about people.
I'm going to keep saying 'liberal' as loud as I can and as often as I can." - George Clooney