Bob Herbert reminds us what the Radical Republicans are up to with the latest budget. They are, of course, hoping that we'll all be so distracted by the various "news" stories that we'll ignore the fact that according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Figures in the budget show that child-care assistance would be ended for 300,000 low-income children by 2009. The food stamp cut would terminate food stamp aid for approximately 300,000 low-income people, most of whom are low-income working families with children. Reduced Medicaid funding most certainly would cause many states to cut their Medicaid programs, increasing the ranks of the uninsured.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Radical Republican strategy can be summed by in the phrase, "Fuck the Poor." Under this budget schools will have to fire teachers, local governments will have to fire police and firefighters, and more and more families will be homeless, hungry, sicker, and out of luck. Compassion indeed.
posted by Idle Crank at 3/25/2005 06:21:00 AM