{"id":1084,"date":"2005-09-30T15:39:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2005-09-30T15:39:47","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T22:39:47","slug":"1084","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/09\/30\/1084\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Rolling In His Grave?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning! Politics ahead! I try to avoid it at all costs, but some Fridays, I just can’t take it. Senstive eyes need not continue reading, although graduate students with loans might be tempted to take a look, irrespective of their taste or distaste for politics.
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\nVia Gordon Watts<\/a>. Want to see one reason why I’m not a Republican? Check out Operation Offset a document put together by a gaggle of Republicans which attempts to pay for hurricane relief. Here is a sampling of their proposed cuts<\/p>\n

\nIncrease Allowable Co-payments for Medicaid
\nIncrease Medicare Part B Premium from 25% to 30%
\nReduce Medicaid Administrative Spending (i.e. pass the cost on the states.)
\nEliminate Subsidized Loans to Graduate Students. This one I’ve got to quote in full: “The federal government has extensive loan options for financing education. Students have likely had government help paying for college, if there was financial need. Graduate students make an informed decision to invest in their own futures and should bare the costs of schooling, especially since private interest rates are currently low. This reform would allow federal higher education funding to be focused on college students while still allowing graduate students to benefit from unsubsidized federal loans. Savings: $8.6 billion over ten years ($4.2 billion over five years)”
\nLevel Funding for Global AIDS Initiative
\nLevel Funding for African Development Foundation
\nLevel Funding for the Peace Corps
\nEliminate the National Science Foundation Math and Science Program. This clearly doesn’t mean what it says: “The NSF promotes math and science education by improving teacher training and developing instructional material. However, the program is now duplicative of programs at the Department of Education, including the Math and Science Partnership authorized by No Child Left Behind. Savings: $2 billion over ten years ($973 million over five years)”
\nReduce Funding for Department of Education Administration
\nCancel NASA\u2019s New Moon\/Mars Initiative
\nEliminate the Next Generation of High-Speed Rail
\nReduce Funding for the Cooperative State Research and Education
\nReduce Funding for the Centers for Disease Control
\nReduce Funding for the Agriculture Research Service
\nEliminate the Advanced Technology Program
\nEliminate State and Community Grants for Energy Conservation
\nEliminate Federal Grants for Wastewater Infrastructure
\nEliminate the Energy Star Program
\nReduce Fish and Wildlife Construction
\nEliminate the Applied Research for Renewable Energy Sources Program
\nEliminate the Clean Coal Technology Program
\nEliminate Teen Funding Portion of Title X Family Planning (this one’s about contraceptives, people, in case you were wondering)
\nEliminate funding for the National and Community Service Act
\nRaise the Threshold for Davis-Bacon Coverage (aka screw the really really poor.)
\nEliminate Federal Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
\nEliminate Funding for the National Endowment for the Arts
\nEliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities
\nReduced Funds for Bureau of Indian Affairs School Construction
\nReduced Funding for Waste Disposal Grants
\nand my favorite, certainly one of the major issues of the day:
\nEliminate Funding for Penile Implants Under Medicare\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you want your head to spin, go and read the full document here. Reading this will make you think that we don’t need a government, because, surely, through the charity and good will they are so well known for, private industry will fill in where all these cuts are made! All hail our corporate masters and their great kindness that have driven corporate profits to all time highs while real income has declined and poverty has increased!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warning! Politics ahead! I try to avoid it at all costs, but some Fridays, I just can’t take it. Senstive eyes need not continue reading, although graduate students with loans might be tempted to take a look, irrespective of their taste or distaste for politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}