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mitty14u2

(1,015 posts)
Sun Aug 21, 2016, 12:51 PM Aug 2016

Cut Taxes for Rich = CUT GI Bill- Climate Science- Free Lunches- Education- Health Care- Fema- Etc.




Congress' half-trillion-dollar spending binge

Budget austerity takes a back seat as the House passes nearly $700 billion in unpaid-for tax cuts.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/congress-spending-binge-tax-cuts-budget-deal-216883

2016 U.S. Congress Aims to Cut Climate Science

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-congress-aims-to-cut-climate-science/

2016 Republicans In Congress Want To Cut Free Lunches For Poor Kids; Don’t Let Them

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/07/republicans-congress-want-cut-free-lunches-poor-kids-dont-let-them

2016 Senate panel advances veterans reform plan including GI Bill Cuts

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/veterans/2016/05/12/senatevetaffairs-omnibus-advances/84286650/
2015 How $1.4 billion in budget cuts will impact Veterans

http://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/19356/how-1-4-billion-in-budget-cuts-will-impact-veterans/
2015 Report: Federal Education Funding Plummeting

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/06/24/report-federal-education-funding-cut-by-5-times-more-than-all-spending

2015 Congress’s Budget Proposes Significant Cuts to Health Care Programs

http://familiesusa.org/blog/2015/05/congress%E2%80%99s-budget-proposes-significant-cuts-health-care-programs

2012 FEMA loses nearly $900 million if sequester cuts hit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/10/29/fema-loses-nearly-900-million-if-sequester-cuts-hit/

the only thing republicans excell at is taking care of the rich and powerful by cutting taxes and making laws to protect there wealth, power and greed. The Republican run house and senate need to be turned back to democrats, a billionaire president with republican run congress will be the total demise of the middle class taking US back a 100 years.

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Cut Taxes for Rich = CUT GI Bill- Climate Science- Free Lunches- Education- Health Care- Fema- Etc. (Original Post) mitty14u2 Aug 2016 OP
And then right back to the recession created in W administration and a big jump into Thinkingabout Aug 2016 #1
Total truth. love_katz Aug 2016 #2
he gets by on his aw shucks APPEARANCE. pansypoo53219 Aug 2016 #3

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. And then right back to the recession created in W administration and a big jump into
Sun Aug 21, 2016, 12:57 PM
Aug 2016

increasing the debt. The republicans continue to do the same thing time after time and get the same results.

love_katz

(2,584 posts)
2. Total truth.
Sun Aug 21, 2016, 01:55 PM
Aug 2016

And they've been all too successful at smearing the democrats as tax-and- spend spendthrifts.

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