GOP spending cuts would affect millions of people

[TomCADem]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Low-income students may get smaller grants and the newly disabled might have to wait longer for their benefits. And just about every politician is going to get an earful from the local PTA if school aid gets whacked.

Republicans are finding it's one thing to issue a blanket promise to cut spending, an entirely different matter when you actually take the scissors to $1 of every $6 spent by agencies like the IRS, the FBI, NASA and the National Park Service. Federal layoffs would be unavoidable, the White House warns.

That's the real-world impact of House Republicans' campaign promise to cut $100 billion from the budgets of domestic agencies. Next week, they plan to vote on a resolution setting appropriations for the rest of the year at 2008 pre-recession levels in place before President Barack Obama took office.

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"In terms of the bottom line, we totally agree that there needs to be discipline in discretionary spending, but we shouldn't for a moment believe that these levels of savings will in and of itself solve the fiscal challenge," said White House Budget Director Jacob Lew. "The problem is much bigger than the total of nondefense discretionary spending, much less a reduction of it."


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_republicans_spending

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Remember that Republicans are promising the $100 billion in cuts while exempting defense programs from cuts.

[OHdem10]

1. ADD this to the cuts the States are making in the State Budgets.

A lot of this overlaps. The states are going to be laying
off teachers, Polics, Government Workers. Cutting Services
such as Medicaid, etc.

[alp227]

2. don't forget corporate welfare too. and tax cuts for the super-rich.

as Thom Hartmann says: "15% is the maximum income tax millionaires and billionaires pay if they make their living sitting on their butt around the pool waiting for the dividend checks to arrive." He's used that "sitting on their butts" phrase a lot on this show; I found this quote http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2008/07/july-01-2008-show-notes

It seems that the state/fed govs would shove the burden on the middle class and working/poor because the rich won't pay their fair share.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. "while exempting defense programs from cuts."

And demanding the Bush tax cuts. Reality is not the GOP's strong suit. THey even lie to themselves.

[No Elephants]

4. NS, S.

[groundloop]

5. Georgia is a poster child for GOP behavior.....

Our newest repuke governor is promising tax cuts for big business while at the same time cutting education funding. I just don't get why more people don't wake up to their hypocrisy.