Posted on 11/03/2005 3:32:35 PM PST by HHKrepublican_2
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday narrowly approved the first cuts since 1997 to benefit programs such as Medicare (search), Medicaid (search) and farm subsidies, giving Republicans a symbolic victory against ever-rising government spending.
The bill, passed by a 52-47 vote, would make modest cuts to the health care programs for the elderly, poor and disabled, but leave the food stamp program untouched.
The measure also would permit exploratory oil drilling in an Alaskan wilderness (search) area.
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.
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
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It's $36 Billion over 5 years so whoppee freakin' do
"This is fine, so long as we don't cut that bridge to NOWHERE in Alaska..."
Good point. I mean, that bridge to nowhere is a lot more important than the elderly and disabled.
Collins, Snowe, Dewine and Chafee. Landrieu voted yea (but she's coming back for the money).
I actually thought that the Republican Congress had eliminated that noxious practice after the 104th Congress, but I suppose not.
Better than having them come here illegally over the border than the refuse to do anything about.
Is this a cut in the DC sense of the word (reduction in increase) or an actual cut (less than last year)?
Thanks, hey where'd you get that info? I'd like to see how everyone voted....
I won't believe this until I see the dollar figure of what was spent on these programs last year and the dollar figure that is budgeted to be spent this year. $36B less? I want to do the math myself, thank you.
Why don't they start by cutting out hundreds of unnecessary government programs and let the elite bureaucrats take it in the neck rather than people who've been paying taxes all their lives? Or cut back welfare and let ablebodied people work to eat, not sit back and wait for the next check? I've heard college students talk about how they can live off the gov.. No doubt their extreme left wing profs taught them well.
Can't. I seem to be dreaming with you...
Deserves repeating...!!
"Only in Washington is a reduction in the amount of increased spending considered to be a cut."
Bears repeating.
I have no clue, but at least this is a step forward.
It's a bone, tossed out for the hungry among us.
36 billion in social spending cuts!!! Those heartless knuckledragging homophobic/sexist/racist/bigotted/misogynist fascists would throw their own grandmothers out into the street and starve all school-aged children whose families are too busy spending their hard-earned welfare checks on cigarettes, crack and other necessities of life. Of course progressyve Democrats are never racists even when we say racist things because we aren't racist by definition. We also demonstrate our love for our families as we work to get cradle to grave government support for all our extended families through a redistributive tax structure.
I mean, AlGore hit the nail on the head when he asked who was going to take care of his mother's needs back in the stolen 2000 election. Sure the guy was worth something short of a million bucks, but what the hey, shouldn't we share in the blessings of supporting his mother through our taxes? Surely government can't expect progressyves to bear the brunt of providing for our aged and increasingly non-productive parents can it?
Like I've always said: In the interest of a beautiful world without suffering, hug an old-growth tree and euthanize grandma.
Yea. The ones where they talk for three hours and vote to honor the Super Bowl champions or some philanthropy.
Maybe Reid's little temper tantrum the other day showed them once and for all they can't get along with these guys so now they're just doing whatever they feel like.
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