September 26, 2005

No New Taxes

Filed under: Do Something

Wonder where Bush and Company are going to get the money to pay for the Hurricane damage?

$225 billion cut from Medicaid, the last-resort health insurance program for the very poor.

$200 billion cut from Medicare, the health care safety net for the elderly and the disabled.

$25 billion cut from the Centers for Disease Control

$6.7 billion cut from school lunches for poor children

$7.5 billion cut from programs to fight global AIDS

$5.5 billion to eliminate all funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
$3.6 billion cut to eliminate the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities

$8.5 billion cut to eliminate all subsidized loans to graduate students.

$2.5 billion cut from Amtrak

$2.5 billion to eliminate the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative

$417 million cut to eliminate the Minority Business Development Agency

$4.8 billion cut to eliminate all funding for the Safe and Drug-Free schools program

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