Bury Me Broken

House Approves Cuts to Labor Programs

From the AP:

Funding for job training, rural health care, low-income schools and help for people lacking health insurance would face big cuts under a bill passed Friday by the House.

But new demands, including $870 million to administer the new Medicare prescription drug program, have forced cuts in scores of programs.

This means that if the American people weren't robbed with the prescription drug law, we would have more money for poor people.

The cuts include the outright elimination of 48 programs whose current budgets total $1 billion. Among the programs to be eliminated is the Healthy Communities Access Program, currently funded at $83 million, which helps communities offer health care to the uninsured.

Also eliminated is the $205 million budget for an Education Department grant program targeted at low-income and underachieving schools.

...an 84 percent cut — from $300 million down to $47 million — in training programs for doctors and nurses, and $806 million in cuts to Bush's No Child Left Behind education initiative, a more than 3 percent drop. Grants for local community-action agencies that help the poor would be cut in half, to $320 million.

Once again, the 'values voters' need to pay close attention to the 'values' of this administration. Jesus ministered to the poor. I will hammer point over and again.

posted by niteskolar @ 3:16 PM