Does the Bush budget show how compassionate conservatism works?

Question

I mean look at how well this budget treats seniors, children, and the disabled.
– “$77 billion in funding cuts for Medicare and Medicaid over the next five years, and $280 billion over the next 10.”

– $223 million in funding cuts (4 percent decrease from this year’s levels) to the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

– “$4.9 billion, or 8 percent, cut in education, training, employment and social services” grants.

– $100 million cut for Head Start, which provides child development services to economically disadvantaged children and families.

– “$2.4 billion cut in community and regional development grants — which often provide funding for low- and middle-income communities — to $16.5 billion from $18.9 billion.

– $400 million — 18 percent — cut in the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, “which provides $2.2 billion to help people pay heating bills this year.”

– $172 million — nearly 25 percent — cut in funding for housing for low-income senior

Jo Blo it's not stealing it's part of the social contract of being American. What the hell is so wrong with your world that you begrudge help for the sick, the elderly, and children, or is that how Jesus told you to be?

Gee truth be told you mean George isn't to be trusted these are his numbers from the budget released yesterday NIMROD

Answer 1

the budget is a national disgrace.

if the dems have any wits about them at all, they will turn this into a discussion about national priorities.

Answer 2

At least the wealthy Americans won't have to sacrifice for Bush's war. Bush has a new economy theory, the trickle up theory. It's a take from the poor and give to the rich policy.

Answer 3

I find it an abomination that the people who have aged out of the work force, or those who are too young to participate are being punished.

Taking away from programs designed to educate ad maintain heath of children is going to have negative soc ail ramifications, in a few years, Under nourished and under educated children are more likely to be dependent upon social funding. Taking directly away from children is going to cost you in the long run.

Bush is very short sighted, he propose for one an unbalanced budget that is stripping essential programs away from those who need it and have no other options.

Answer 4

Bull$hit. You have subscribed to the Democrat mantra by calling them "cuts." There are no cuts. They are actually increases, just not as much as the tax-and-spend Democrats would have promised (and probably not have delivered).

Ask any senior if their social security has been cut.

And try backing up your information from an actual credible source--not the Al Gore Playbook.

Answer 5

Bush abandoned the compassionate conservatism agenda.

Answer 6

There is NOTHING compassionate about government's confiscation of individual private property via taxation in order to redistribute it to someone else.

If you or I stole money from our neighbors in order to give it to our favorite charity, we would be charged with theft and thrown in jail.

Why is government theft any different? Why is it lauded and championed when private citizens get jail time for doing the same exact thing?

If you believe in compassion, give of your own time and money. Stealing money and time from someone else is coercion, not compassion.

Answer 7

That is exactly how compassionate conservatism works.

Answer 8

Hey, the military is getting its increase to kill. And we need it. We're only spending more on our military than all other nations COMBINED.

Answer 9

Yes, he is compassionate to the wealthy.

Answer 10

And minimum wage is ab out to go up, so it should balance right?

The poeple who use those progrma SHOULD get their unwarranted raise and take car eof themselves right?