Before I begin...yes, the original Tea Party is not the same Tea Party as today. Yes, it was quickly taken over by corporate conservative interests. When I use the word Tea Party now, I'm referring to the Tea Party of today. So, no bullshit arguments about "but but but they aren't the REAL Tea Party!" Sorry, that "real" Tea Party no longer exists. It's the Koch Brothers' corporate fake grassroots movement now. Deal with it.
Anyway, with the Tea Party running on how dreadful the economy is and how awful big government is and how terrible runaway spending is, the new House majority seems to be spending an awful lot of time and effort trying to save a pittance by eliminating federal subsidies for abortions. That'll make a dent in our deficit!
Here's the rest of the genius Republican plan:
http://www.tnr.com/blog/83387/house-...ation-usda-pbs
So, deep cuts to education (Pre-K through college), "aid for pregnant women and women with young children, NOAA, NASA, energy efficiency programs, scientific research, counter-proliferation, FEMA, environmental protections, community health centers, and Centers for Disease Control."
So, pretty much all the programs that help better the quality of life for living, breathing American citizens will be cut or eliminated. Can't find a job? No unemployment for you! Get cancer? Fuck you! Sell your house! File bankruptcy! Want clean air to breathe? Sorry, it's more profitable for corporations to not give a shit about the environment. Should we give lower class children a fighting chance in school by giving access to preschool programs? No! Get a better job and a nanny you fucking dead-weight slackers!
So, you care SOOOOOOOOOOO much about making sure that fetuses are actually born. But as soon as they leave their wombs, FUCK IT! Throw them to the wolves and only the strongest will survive! AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
Terrible. How about you conservatives show as much compassion for life outside the womb as you claim to have for life inside? How can you say "don't you abort that rape baby, it deserves a chance at life," but when he's all grown up, gets cancer, and can't afford treatment, there goes his kids' college funds, the house, and the car while you sit silently watching and not giving two shits.
This is why conservatives make me so fucking angry. This is why conservatives make me so fucking sick.
Anyway, with the Tea Party running on how dreadful the economy is and how awful big government is and how terrible runaway spending is, the new House majority seems to be spending an awful lot of time and effort trying to save a pittance by eliminating federal subsidies for abortions. That'll make a dent in our deficit!
Here's the rest of the genius Republican plan:
http://www.tnr.com/blog/83387/house-...ation-usda-pbs
Quote:
About 8 million college students would see their Pell Grants fall by about 15 percent, with the maximum grants of $5,550 declining by by $845. “Our students count on that money, and we don’t have the resources to try to make that up,” one college financial aid officer told the New York Times in December, in response to talk such a cut might be coming.
Head Start funding would fall by more than $1 billion, forcing some combination of lower spending per child and fewer children in the program. The analysis I saw predicted more than 200,000 low-income children would lose slots in the program, although some of that may reflect the loss of funding from the expiring Recovery Act. Either way, it's a pretty big hit. Oh, and about 55,000 instructors and teachers could lose jobs as part of the cut.
In absolute terms, the cut to the USDA's food inspection program may seem a lot smaller--just $100 million. But that will almost certainly mean fewer inspectors, which is no small thing. As the non-partisan organization OMB Watch has noted, in recent years the number of inspectors has not kept up with the number of food producers--and "at no other regulatory agency does the size of the inspectorate need to be so closely aligned to the size of the industry it regulates."
Title I grants, which help schools with particularly needy populations, would fall by $700 million, affecting 2,400 schools and one million children. Another 10,000 instructors and aides would likely lose their jobs, as well. This is a direct hit on low-income children and the communities in which they live. (In the forthcoming print edition of TNR, I profile a Flint, Michigan school that has won awards for its work with low-income students. A big reason why is its Title I teachers.)
Americorps? The House Republicans would wipe out its funding entirely. And the Corporation for Public Broadcasting? Same thing.
Head Start funding would fall by more than $1 billion, forcing some combination of lower spending per child and fewer children in the program. The analysis I saw predicted more than 200,000 low-income children would lose slots in the program, although some of that may reflect the loss of funding from the expiring Recovery Act. Either way, it's a pretty big hit. Oh, and about 55,000 instructors and teachers could lose jobs as part of the cut.
In absolute terms, the cut to the USDA's food inspection program may seem a lot smaller--just $100 million. But that will almost certainly mean fewer inspectors, which is no small thing. As the non-partisan organization OMB Watch has noted, in recent years the number of inspectors has not kept up with the number of food producers--and "at no other regulatory agency does the size of the inspectorate need to be so closely aligned to the size of the industry it regulates."
Title I grants, which help schools with particularly needy populations, would fall by $700 million, affecting 2,400 schools and one million children. Another 10,000 instructors and aides would likely lose their jobs, as well. This is a direct hit on low-income children and the communities in which they live. (In the forthcoming print edition of TNR, I profile a Flint, Michigan school that has won awards for its work with low-income students. A big reason why is its Title I teachers.)
Americorps? The House Republicans would wipe out its funding entirely. And the Corporation for Public Broadcasting? Same thing.
So, deep cuts to education (Pre-K through college), "aid for pregnant women and women with young children, NOAA, NASA, energy efficiency programs, scientific research, counter-proliferation, FEMA, environmental protections, community health centers, and Centers for Disease Control."
So, pretty much all the programs that help better the quality of life for living, breathing American citizens will be cut or eliminated. Can't find a job? No unemployment for you! Get cancer? Fuck you! Sell your house! File bankruptcy! Want clean air to breathe? Sorry, it's more profitable for corporations to not give a shit about the environment. Should we give lower class children a fighting chance in school by giving access to preschool programs? No! Get a better job and a nanny you fucking dead-weight slackers!
So, you care SOOOOOOOOOOO much about making sure that fetuses are actually born. But as soon as they leave their wombs, FUCK IT! Throw them to the wolves and only the strongest will survive! AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
Terrible. How about you conservatives show as much compassion for life outside the womb as you claim to have for life inside? How can you say "don't you abort that rape baby, it deserves a chance at life," but when he's all grown up, gets cancer, and can't afford treatment, there goes his kids' college funds, the house, and the car while you sit silently watching and not giving two shits.
This is why conservatives make me so fucking angry. This is why conservatives make me so fucking sick.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
-Sagan
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
-Sagan
