GOP 2012 budget to make $4 trillion-plus in cuts
WASHINGTON – A Republican plan for the 2012 budget would cut more than $4 trillion over the next decade, more than even the president's debt commission proposed, with spending caps as well as changes in the Medicare and Medicaid health programs, its principal author said Sunday.
The spending blueprint from Rep. Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, is to be released Tuesday. It deals with the budget year that begins Oct. 1, not the current one that is the subject of negotiations aimed at preventing a partial government shutdown on Friday.
We do spend far too much as a country and as we all know and this is no way to remain solvent.
However... that said, slashing funding for the poor and schools and the middle class, etc., is grossly unfair and even unnecessary, particularly when they can and should cut corporate welfare and defense spending, instead. There's so much waste in the Department of Defense and at the Pentagon, they can't even keep track of what they throw away---literally.
The next development, then, is for the Democrats and what they might propose.
Hopefully they can make intelligent, alternate proposals that are good for the working-, middle- and lower classes and we can stop gorging the fat cats of the upper 1% and corporations. The Democrats need to come up with good, original ideas and then stick with them.
I don't expect it but I have hope.
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110403/ap_on_re_us/us_gop2012_budget
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I have read some of the comments and feel this, the GOP and big business interests want us all to pay the taxes, fight the wars, work for nothing and leave them alone so that can run the country into the ground and live the American Dream. Congressman with signs" pays my way and I will screw the people in every way possible"
I couldn't agree more. Doesn't it seem that way, that the Repubs (Rethugs?) want all that--we work for near-nothing, pay ALL the taxes (thank you, GE, et. al), fight the wars, etc., etc., just so we can hale the wealthy and corporations. And we're supposed to be good with that.
Have you read or heard about the negotiations this week--more of this same article/subject--where the Republicans keep moving their goals further out because the Democrats compromised to them. Finally, fortunately, the White House and the Congressional Dems said "enough!" and that's why we have this hopefully temporary stalemate.
Same in California--a whole coalition there came together and agreed on a budget but the Republicans, again, won't compromise on anything and agree on the budget.
So much for working together.
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