Bush Budget Cuts - effect on Texas

Of course, if we had just left taxes as they were under Clinton, none of this would be happening...

Bad for security -

- The Bush budget cuts the COPS program, which has put 6,124 officers on Texas streets, by 96 percent.

Bad for health care -

- The Bush budget cuts $45 billion from Medicaid, enough to provide health care to 1.8 million children. Texas's share of these cuts is $2.7 billion.

Bad for education -

- Bush underfunds his own No Child Left Behind Act by $13.1 billion in his budget. In Texas, that means a shortfall of $1.1 billion, leaving behind 272,271 Texas children.

Bad for the environment -

- Bush cuts Texas clean water programs by $17.7 million.

Bad for the poor -

- Bush's 2006 budget also cuts the Low Income Heating Energy Assistance Program -- which helps low-income families afford heating fuel in the winter -- by $234.4 million, including $5.2 million cut for Texas residents.

Bad for veterans -

- The Bush budget would require many veterans to pay a new $250 annual "user fee" to use the Veterans Administration health care system, and would double the prescription drug co-payment for the 1,754,809 Texas veterans.

Source: http://www.democrats.org/bushbudget/index.html

And, to think, all of this so the top 1% of American society can own an even bigger piece of the pie.

Does thinking veterans should have decent heath care make me a communist? I guess so. I mean those amputees should just pull themselves up by their bootstrap!

See ya later
Matthew