* Budget Takes from Poor Children to Give to the Rich

[G_j]

www.commondreams.org/news2004/0206-06.htm  
Children's Defense Fund Analysis shows Bush Administration Budget Takes from Poor Children to Give to the Rich

 WASHINGTON - February 6 - The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) today released an analysis showing that the Bush Administration's proposed budget puts millions of poor children at risk by not adequately funding vital programs that provide for some of their most basic needs. The Bush budget presents a reckless plan to expand tax cuts for the rich at the expense of the most vulnerable Americans - including the 12.1 million children who live below the poverty line.

The CDF analysis highlights Administration choices that:

fail to meet the basic needs of children in health care, housing, child care, child nutrition, and child abuse and neglect;

deny key supports and services for low-income working families such as child care assistance, housing vouchers, and afterschool programs;

leave children behind by cutting many education programs and underfunding its own No Child Left Behind Act by $9.4 billion;

allow children and adolescents to fall through the cracks by failing to invest in families in crisis and juvenile services ; and

back away from federal government responsibilities to help our most vulnerable citizens by promoting block grants in Head Start, housing, health care, and child welfare programs.
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[ClintonTyree]

1. Hey.............

that's why the man sitting behind that desk in the Oval Office makes those "tough decisions". We can't have it all. Either rich kids flourish or poor kids perish. Those rich kids will provide the jobs necessary to bring the economy back around again you know. Those poor kids are simply leaches sucking the blood from honest, hard working entrepreneurs.
These tough budget decisions have to be made. Thank gawd we have a president that can make them.

< :puke: > says DumpGump, rushing to the bathroom to vomit.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Good points to make

when anyone calls Shrub a 'compassionate conservative'.