Bush Budget Calls for Cuts in Health Services

N.Y. Times ^ | February 5, 2005 | ROBERT PEAR

[Lunatic Fringe]

Is this a real spending cut, or a cut in projected budget increases?

[Calpernia]

>>>Faced with constraints on spending caused by record budget deficits and the demands of the war in Iraq, administration officials said on Friday that they had increased the budget for some health programs but cut many others, including some that address urgent health care needs.

How about...

Faced with constraints on spending caused by record budget deficits and the demands of the war in Iraq out of control democrat spending, administration officials said on Friday that they had increased the budget for some health programs but cut many others, including some that address urgent health care needs.

[bayourod]

"Mr. Bush will propose that overall domestic spending, aside from entitlements, grows less than the rate of inflation next year"

[stopem]

A Public Health Service program for "chronic disease prevention and health promotion" would be cut by 6.5 percent, to $841 million in 2006. The program finances efforts to prevent and control obesity, which federal health officials say has reached epidemic proportions.

Thats a program that can be cut TOTALLY, cut the fat out of the budget (sorry couldn't resist)

[Bahbah]

This is just the beginning of the carping. Let's see what those deficit hawk dems have to say about actually trying to do something about the debt.

[SoFloFreeper]

Mr. Bush requests money to expand a national stockpile of vaccines and antibiotics. But the public health emergency fund of the centers, which helps state and local agencies prepare for bioterror attacks, would be cut 12.6 percent, to $1 billion.

Oh my God. You mean state and local agencies will need to fund themselves?? What horror.

[Joe Bonforte]

Bush cutting federal budget

Women and minorities most affected.

[cake_crumb]

Yeah, yeah, women, children and minorities hardest hit, yada yada

[OldFriend]

The creatures in congress will have to decide whether they want to fund serious anti terror methods or they want to fund projects to determine if sweat smells bad, etc.

[cake_crumb]

He's gutting out entire programs. About 130 million worth to start. He's been trying to cut unecessary programs for a couple of years, but the Democrats kept blocking.

[cake_crumb]

That should have been CUTTING out, not "gutting out"...yeesh. Use spell check for a change and just stick the wrong word in there instead.

[carlr]

But the public health emergency fund of the centers, which helps state and local agencies prepare for bioterror attacks,

The county I live in probably has as many deer as people yet we have had anti-terror training programs forced on us.

I am not diminishing the importance of these programs in obvious areas(NYC,Washington DC.,Power generation sites) but it is a waste of money in small rural areas that wouldn`t be any kind of a target.Money not well spent.

[hinckley buzzard]

Really. 841 million to fight fat people seems like more than enough, considering the alternatives. On the other hand, I see no cuts in the NIH program for wasting grant money studying magical and superstitious folk remedies, i.e. "complemantary and alternative medicine." One of Tom Dunghill Harkin's favorite fetishes.

[rcocean]

My thought exactly.

The MSM has done this before. For example, in the 90's with the Repub congress or recently in California with Arnold
.

They always LIE and label a "cut" if someone wants to spend more money but less than originally projected.

The MSM also never tell the public that taxes and spending have been going up, and up, and up - year after year.

They get away with it because most people are "challenged" when it comes to numbers and budgets.

[FreeReign]

Is this a real spending cut, or a cut in projected budget increases?

Did you hear Rush several days ago?

[el_texicano]

You know as well as I do this is only a cut in the rate of increase. That's the only thing the dim can call a "CUT".

Now what I propose is a complete cutting off of funds to NPR, PBS, and National Endowment for the Arts. There are a whole host of stupid programs which are nothing more than gimmie's to the liberal causes.

[texastoo]

Cut food stamps and you will cut half the fat in America.

Didn't he say in the SOTU address that he will build Government Health Clinics in poor neighborhoods? It would be cheaper to give them bus tickets.

[ancient_geezer]

Really. 841 million to fight fat people seems like more than enough, considering the alternatives.

Actually this is disturbing as obviously Mc Donalds is a clear case of a neo-islamo-fascist plot to render every American incapable of running away from biological and chemical warfare agents.

That program really need 10 times the funding given to it, or we're all gonnna diiiiiiieeeee ;O)

[CyberAnt]

It's exactly what you said - "a cut in projected budget increases. Instead of getting 6-7% - they're probably only getting 2-3%.

We must make this clear to the public.

Also .. these are the same people who were whining that the PRESIDENT WAS SPENDING LIKE A DRUKEN SAILOR. I think we should remind them of that - as nicely as possible.