Klarinet Archive - Posting 000331.txt from 2005/09

From: "Joseph H. Fasel" <jhf@-----.gov>
Subj: RE: [kl] Budget Cuts
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:18:22 -0400

As I understand it, "Operation Offset" is not "the Republicans'" plan,
but that of the Republican Study Committee, a collection of around 100
rabid right-wingers. They are trying to use Katrina as an excuse to
target the government programs they most love to hate.

--Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaw, Kenneth R. [mailto:krshaw@-----.com]
> Sent: 28 September 2005 21:03
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Budget Cuts
>
>
> "Operation Offset" is the Republicans budget cut plan to pay for
> Hurricane Katrina. There will there be no rollback of tax cuts for the
> rich. The great majority of the proposed cuts target the elderly and the
> poor, heavily targeting Medicare. They eliminate all federal funding for
> energy conservation, the "Energy Star" program, energy efficient
> vehicles, hydrogen vehicles, high-speed rail, light rail, AmeriCorps,
> the Even Start program, the Presidential Election Campaign Fund and
> security/anti-drug funding for inner city schools. Also facing cuts are
> the Global AIDS Initiative, the EPA, the Centers for Disease Control,
> pensions and healthcare plans for retired federal workers, job programs
> and revitalization funds for poor neighborhoods, the school lunch
> program, community health centers, and health care for soldiers.
>
> Of particular interest to musicians, all funding will be eliminated for
> PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the
> Humanities, and federal loans to graduate students.
>
> <http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:CrIBQebchh0J:johnshadegg.house.gov/r
> sc/RSC_Budget_Options_2005.pdf+RSC_Budget_Options_2005&hl=en&client=goog
> let>
>
> This is still a draft and will probably be amended.
>
> Of course, everyone agrees that hurricane relief is essential, but IMHO
> this plan makes cuts in the wrong places, and we should tell our
> Congress members so.
>
> Ken Shaw
--
Joseph H. Fasel, Ph.D. email: jhf@-----.gov
Systems Planning and Analysis phone: +1 505 667 7158
University of California fax: +1 505 667 2960
Los Alamos National Laboratory D-2 MS F609; Los Alamos, NM 87545

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