Klarinet Archive - Posting 000334.txt from 2005/09

From: "Warren Rosenberg" <wrosenberg47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Budget Cuts
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:27:48 -0400

Is it possible to keep comments limited to music?

Certainly political partisanship is not something I want to read about on
this list. There must be a million other places or private email to voice
your intelligent opinions.
Thank you for your forbearance.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph H. Fasel" <jhf@-----.gov>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:17 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Budget Cuts

> 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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