12.22.2005

Spending Cuts All Born on Backs of Poor and Middle Class

Nice that Cheney came to break the 50-50 split in the Senate that led to the spending cuts bill being passed.

Thanks to Grinch Cheney, tens of millions of Americans who have underwritten health care will pay much more for basic services ($20-$160 for each visit compared to $3), funding for student loans is cut back severely (Rumsfeld is hoping for more military recruits), and native-born US citizens need to show proof of citizenship to get treatment (many older blacks alive today do not have such proof, for example), and support to get child support for abandoned children is cut (about $8 billion is expected NOT to be collected there). Welfare changes, too, are much, much harsher.