$40B more to be cut, ravaging the social contract by $75B

this has been the plan from the beginning... the r's agenda has no room for accommodating those who work hard, play by the rules, but may be facing hard times... the costs they are seeking to "defray" are the massively expensive, no-bid clean-up and reconstruction contracts being awarded left and right to political cronies, those who already have their hands deeply in the till... it's social darwinism, survival of the fittest (read: well-connected) all the way, baby...

House and Senate Republican leaders are preparing a package of spending cuts to Medicaid and other social programs to defray some of the costs from the cleanup of Hurricane Katrina.
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House leaders say they want to shave as much as $40 billion from various spending programs when budget negotiations with the Senate resume in mid-October. Those cuts would be in addition to $35 billion that Congress had agreed to cut earlier this year to reduce the federal deficit.

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Beyond Medicaid, House leaders say they are considering an across-the-board cut to all domestic programs, with the exception of defense, homeland security, and ''entitlement" programs such as Social Security that the government is obligated to fund.

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The governors of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi have identified Medicaid as perhaps the most important program the federal government funds in their region.

be clear... the "baby" that grover and co. want to "drown in the bathtub" ain't government, it's you and me...

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