Stick it to the poor and to hell with any implied social contract

the ship of fools plows ahead under full steam...

Let's not pretend that the Republican plan to cut Medicaid this fall has anything to do with finding the money to pay for Hurricane Katrina. Congressional leaders floated plans to slash the healthcare program for the poor by $10 billion in April, long before hurricane season.

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It would be ironic and cruel if programs to help poor people elsewhere were sacrificed to repair the lives of the poor people who were in Katrina's path.

But that is precisely what is happening in Washington.

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Bush has ruled out a tax increase to offset what could be $200 billion for the ambitious recovery program he outlined in his address to the nation from a ruined New Orleans last month. He has also ruled out any change in his plans for new tax cuts or in his effort to make his current tax cuts permanent. This can mean only two things: a continuing, dizzying rise in the deficit or an attack on government services. The president has decided on both.

hell-bent, these bastards are going to push their agenda forward, damn the public, damn the media, damn compassion, damn mother nature, damn reason, damn world opinion, damn indictments, damn rational members of their own party, damn anyone and anything that gets in their way...

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