Bush budget slashes Indian health care, education funding

[donsu]

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007702070356


Behind the modest funding increases in President George Bush's proposed 2008 budget for American Indian programs lie glaring cuts in funding for health care for those who live off the reservation and educational opportunities for Indian children who attend public schools.

In the budget plan he rolled out Monday, Bush proposes to eliminate the $33 million Urban Indian Health Program, a system of 34 health clinics around the country, including five in Montana, that provide low-cost health care to Indians who live in urban areas.

This is the second year that Bush has proposed eliminating the program, and also for a second year supporters are gearing up for a fight to save it. Both houses of the then-Republican-controlled Congress last year refused to go along with the proposal.

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In a statement, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said he will fight the proposed cuts.

"There are basic needs that are not being met, such as clean drinking water and quality affordable health care, and that's not right," Baucus said. "We need to be investing in Native American programs."
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the neo cons give with one hand and take away with the other hand

with the neo cons you really have to read the small print

[Monkeyman]

1. he is going after the weakest in this budget