Dead On Arrival - This Budget
Today the 110th Congress gets the budget that it will work on, with proposals by the cretin in chief to keep his tax cuts while whittling away at social programs that do not enrich his friends. The war of course, does enrich the Carlyle Group, and has the full support and approval of the White House.
This country has suffered through six years of this neglect of the public interest. Now it is time for the Democratic members of congress to put up a good battle to turn that around.
We are in deep trouble, with a deficit that has been brought about by the past six years of an irresponsible GOP controlled budgeting process. Budget actually is a misnomer for the economic extravagance that has gone on until the November elections, it is more of a plan for financial ruin that the congresses of those past six years have passed out.
In today's proposal, the president aims to increase his ongoing war, cut national health care and keep directing tax cuts to the wealthy.
Bush's budget would achieve nearly $100 billion in savings over five years by trimming increases in Medicare, the health-insurance program for 43 million retirees and disabled people, and Medicaid, which provides health care to the poor.
The restraints in Medicare spending would total $66 billion over five years while the savings in Medicaid would total $12.7 billion. Most of the Medicare savings would come in slowing the growth of payments to hospitals and other health-care providers. But $11.5 billion in savings would come from boosting insurance premiums paid by the wealthiest Medicare recipients, those making more than $80,000 annually for individuals and $160,000 for married couples.
More people would be forced to pay the higher monthly premiums because the administration would stop indexing the income levels for inflation. Bush also wants to make high-income Medicare recipients pay more for their drug coverage as well as the higher premium they are now paying on the insurance for doctors' visits.
The Congress will need to stand against this war the administration is waging against the U.S. public, and it will need to reverse its use of our national wealth to ruin our standing abroad, while cutting away at the wellbeing of the majority of our people.
The quality of life in this country has suffered long enough. Health care is in the national interest, war is not. The huge blunder that was made in putting into high office the nonperforming administration we have needs to be controlled and amended by our representatives.
Our future depends on this Congress to end excess and neglect, to bring government back into the hands of the American people.
This country has suffered through six years of this neglect of the public interest. Now it is time for the Democratic members of congress to put up a good battle to turn that around.
We are in deep trouble, with a deficit that has been brought about by the past six years of an irresponsible GOP controlled budgeting process. Budget actually is a misnomer for the economic extravagance that has gone on until the November elections, it is more of a plan for financial ruin that the congresses of those past six years have passed out.
In today's proposal, the president aims to increase his ongoing war, cut national health care and keep directing tax cuts to the wealthy.
Bush's budget would achieve nearly $100 billion in savings over five years by trimming increases in Medicare, the health-insurance program for 43 million retirees and disabled people, and Medicaid, which provides health care to the poor.
The restraints in Medicare spending would total $66 billion over five years while the savings in Medicaid would total $12.7 billion. Most of the Medicare savings would come in slowing the growth of payments to hospitals and other health-care providers. But $11.5 billion in savings would come from boosting insurance premiums paid by the wealthiest Medicare recipients, those making more than $80,000 annually for individuals and $160,000 for married couples.
More people would be forced to pay the higher monthly premiums because the administration would stop indexing the income levels for inflation. Bush also wants to make high-income Medicare recipients pay more for their drug coverage as well as the higher premium they are now paying on the insurance for doctors' visits.
The Congress will need to stand against this war the administration is waging against the U.S. public, and it will need to reverse its use of our national wealth to ruin our standing abroad, while cutting away at the wellbeing of the majority of our people.
The quality of life in this country has suffered long enough. Health care is in the national interest, war is not. The huge blunder that was made in putting into high office the nonperforming administration we have needs to be controlled and amended by our representatives.
Our future depends on this Congress to end excess and neglect, to bring government back into the hands of the American people.
Labels: 110th Congress, Budget; Economy, Health Care
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