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Senate Approves Cuts to Social Programs (Cutting $36B in Spending!)
Fox News ^ | November 03, 2005 | AP

Posted on 11/03/2005 3:32:35 PM PST by HHKrepublican_2

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To: lormand

...and add Coleman


221 posted on 11/04/2005 1:44:34 PM PST by lormand (Dead people vote DemocRAT)
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To: HHKrepublican_2

Did they make an actual cuts, or just a cut in the rate of future spending?


222 posted on 11/04/2005 4:22:07 PM PST by rawhide
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To: HHKrepublican_2

I'll believe it when it crosses Bush's desk.


223 posted on 11/04/2005 7:55:21 PM PST by newzjunkey (CA: YES on Prop 73-77! Unions outspending Arnold 3:1, HELP: http://www.joinarnold.com)
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A good start. But $36 billion is a drop in the bucket compared to the unexpected expenses of Katrina, and to the new drug benifit. We need to cut some more fat out.


224 posted on 11/05/2005 7:43:32 AM PST by SmoothTalker
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To: HHKrepublican_2
We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.
226 posted on 11/05/2005 10:00:41 AM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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To: HHKrepublican_2
We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.
227 posted on 11/05/2005 10:01:13 AM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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To: HHKrepublican_2
We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.
228 posted on 11/05/2005 10:01:53 AM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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To: HHKrepublican_2
We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.
229 posted on 11/05/2005 10:02:09 AM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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To: HHKrepublican_2
We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.
230 posted on 11/05/2005 10:02:23 AM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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To: HHKrepublican_2
We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.
231 posted on 11/05/2005 10:02:39 AM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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To: HHKrepublican_2
We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.
232 posted on 11/05/2005 10:02:52 AM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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To: HHKrepublican_2
We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.
233 posted on 11/05/2005 10:03:07 AM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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To: HHKrepublican_2
We must remember that "cuts" in programs mean that the average taxpayer will have more money in his own pocket.

Now let's see Congress cut foreign aid (out), pork, perks,corporate welfare subsidies, farm subsidies, and do away with the IRS and institute a fair tax plan.

BTW it's a myth that tax cuts benefit only the wealthy - for two reasons.

1. The true wealthy pay only a tiny percent of the total money government takes in in taxes. The largest percent is paid by the middle class - that's where the money is. If government confiscated every cent from every rich person the government could operate only about 24 hours.

2. The people who tell us that tax cuts benefit only the rich are themselves wealthy and know better. By this reasoning, since only the rich benefit, no one gets a tax break.

The big trick is to reserve to government the right to define who is "rich." Anyone "out there" making over the poverty level of around $24,000 for a family of four, is defined by the tax grabbers as rich.
234 posted on 11/05/2005 10:03:18 AM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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To: HHKrepublican_2
The spending battle now heads to the House, where Republicans are divided over whether to cut more deeply across a broader range of social programs.

Cut PBS funding first. There's no reason why the majority of tax payers (Republicans) should pay for a far left wing infomercial!
Then move on to the Endowment for the Arts (It's an unnecessary liberal "artist" welfare program. If they truly were artistic, they'd be able to sell their product and support themselves!).

235 posted on 11/05/2005 8:28:35 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Ah the Alaska pork is only half a billion, or roughly what the Alaskans get yearly in un-tax rebates from the Alaskan state government.


236 posted on 11/06/2005 8:30:12 PM PST by AmericanDave (God bless .......and MORE COWBELL)
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To: soccer_maniac
so why are we giving well off seniors free drugs yet cutting Medicaid services for the dissabled.....and I do mean the truely dissabled?

oh I forgot.....the senior lobby gets the votes out so they get the gold.......

I'm all for cuts, but I think it should start with the massive obscene military/civilian pension system as well as the massive/obscene Social Security system, both which are robbing from the young and the poor to keep the old gezzers fat and happy.....

237 posted on 11/07/2005 10:14:52 AM PST by cherry
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To: peyton randolph

I got an idea on saving $223M of pork - that stupid bridge to nowhere in Alaska that nobody wants. Except by the Alaskan senators, that is.


238 posted on 11/07/2005 10:29:45 AM PST by tob2 (Old Fossil and Proud of It!)
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To: Gipper08
Pence needs to get the RSC members motivated and energized to impart true, genuine cuts, not this political legerdemain, to this bill when it comes to the House.
239 posted on 11/07/2005 5:34:46 PM PST by jla
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To: HHKrepublican_2

Reaction 1: What country is this article about.
Reaction 2: OK. It's the US. Is it true, or is it a reduction in rate of increase?
Reaction 3: The latter. Sigh.


240 posted on 11/07/2005 5:39:29 PM PST by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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