You know what surprises me most about Bush's new
Budget Proposal? I'll tell you what surprises me most
about Bush's new Budget Proposal. What surprises me
most about Bush's new Budget Proposal is that the
front gates of the White House aren't being knocked
down by legions of outraged clergy armed with spiked
bats and pitchforks and acetylene torches screaming
for the head of any of the leering corporate lackeys
possessing even the remotest of roles in submitting
this moral crime against humanity to Congress. And
that the ruling class lets Bush get away with this
potentially revolutionary inciting crap. That's what
surprises me most about Bush's new Budget Proposal.
And I don't use the term "ruling class" lightly. His
tax cuts for the rich: not only do they remain in
defiance of the largest deficit EVER, but King Leerer
intends to fight to make them permanent. HOWEVER, for
any program involving anybody who isn't rich: oh yes,
cuts do exist. Severe cuts. Cuts o'plenty. Cuts to the
bone, unless those bones happen to be located in the
vicinity of the cholesterol laden limb of a fat cat.
Apparently the plan is to balance the budget on the nutritionally deprived uninsured backs of the inadequately medicated poor. That's the deal: budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who do. That's how President Fredo says we're going to get out of the giant deficit hole he's dug. You can't put it any more simply. Rich people richer. Poor people poorer.
Here's just a sample of what he plans for our future
with a handy reminder of why. Because you can't hear
it too much. For those of you with a strong stomach
and a low threshold of infuriation, feel free to read
on. For the rest of you, this might be a good time to
check out your horoscope or some of the cheerier comic
strips like Family Circus.
Tighter restrictions on Food Stamp eligibility so
rich people can have more money.
Federal Drug Administration inspection teams sacked
so rich people can have more money.
Highway and infrastructure improvement budgets
slashed so rich people can have more money.
An 11% reduction in Homeland Security funds
available to state and local coordination efforts so
rich people can have more money.
$250 million cut from programs to train child care
doctors and other health care professionals so rich
people can have more money.
Small Business Administration cut from $3.3 billion
to $.6 billion so rich people can have more money.
Increase on charges for Veterans Health Care so rich
people can have more money.
Cutting Federal Foster Care Programs so rich people
can have more money.
Cutting Medicaid and Medicare benefits so rich
people can have more money.
Ending community services block grants, a $637
million program that helps pay for community action
agencies founded more than 35 years ago as part of the
fight against poverty so rich people can have more
money.
Proposed cuts in aid to farmers, seniors, children,
students, cops, veterans, the homeless, the hungry,
the environment, Amtrak, AND the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention so rich people can have more
money.
Gutting the low income home energy assistance
program which is mostly used by the elderly. That's
right friends, he's cutting winter heating subsidies
to the elderly so rich people can have more money.
What are we now: The Gorgar People? Let's just cut to
the chase. You hit 65, we ship you to the Aleutian
Islands and place you on an ice floe with matches and
a pointy stick. If you a Republican, we take away the
stick, because it's considered an entitlement.
Did the political comic Will Durst mention most of
these cuts are necessary to insure that rich people
can have more money? Because he meant to mention most
of these cuts are necessary to insure that rich people
can have more money. And the poor less.
Political satirist Will Durst has been called "a modern day Will Rogers" by the Los Angeles Times. He hosts the PBS show, The Durst Amendment and was a frequent contributor to George magazine, as well as the op-ed pages of The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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