Sojourner's magazine on bushco budget - it attacks the poor

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The article

Hearts & Minds
Bring It On
by Jim Wallis

In the recently published collection of excerpts from William Sloane Coffin's speeches and sermons - Credo - appears this gem: "When the rich take from the poor, it's called an economic plan. When the poor take from the rich, it's called class warfare. It must be wonderful for President Bush to deplore class warfare while making sure his class wins."

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And what of domestic priorities - especially the vast array of programs that benefit poor and working families? According to The New York Times, the budget calls for the elimination of 65 programs and cuts in 63 more. Those to be eliminated altogether include community development block grants, HOPE VI public housing renovation, rural housing and economic development, and juvenile crime prevention grants. Those cut include a 7 percent reduction for the Environmental Protection Agency, along with programs to deal with dropout prevention, support for local police and firefighters, and funds for guidance counselors in elementary schools.

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HEARD ENOUGH? It gets worse. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analyzed thousands of pages of Office of Management and Budget computer runs and discovered that starting in 2006 and continuing over the next five years, the administration proposes to cut overall funding for domestic discretionary programs other than homeland security by $50 billion - an 11.5 percent cut from today's level. To take one example, cuts in the Child Care and Development Block Grant would mean that the number of children from low- and moderate-income families who receive childcare assistance would be cut by at least 200,000, up to as many as 365,000 children by 2009.

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