Republican 'Pledge' Would Slash Spending For Education, Cancer Research, Police And Firefighters

Bloomberg:

U.S. House Republicans' pledge to cut $100 billion from the federal budget next year would slash spending for education, cancer research and aid to local police and firefighters.

Keeping the midterm-campaign promise would require a Republican-led Congress to cut 21 percent of the $477 billion lawmakers have earmarked for domestic discretionary spending.

Read the whole story: Bloomberg

Comments

[thepulse33]

01:16 AM on 10/03/2010

"Take a position that benefits your constituents more than yourself. Govern like you have no fear of losing your job. Consider people and communities who can't pay for your ads, but can benefit from your leadership, then talk to us about heroism and courage. Only then will you have some experience of what they are."

Susan Deily-Swearingen posted this in her blog yesterday.

[rightleftrightleftright0]

12:18 AM on 10/03/2010

hmmm. isn't that what adults do when expenses exceed income?

[thebigbike]

11:20 PM on 10/02/2010

only poor folks send their kids to public schools, can't afford Sloan Kettering and need police protection. The rest of us have our private security and fire control and wouldn't DREAM of sending our kids to public schools and goodness knows we can afford the best medical care

[engchina]

09:25 PM on 10/02/2010

I have said this before. The neoconservative republican plan is very simple.
To starve the federal government of funding!
This would prove their twisted theory that only the private sector can manage education and public safety in America.

The neoconservative GOP mission is then to privatize as many govt services as possible including police, fire and medical response teams, gut the public schools system by scrapping the Dept of Education.
Wall Street member corporations would then own and manage America's education system.

All other social services agencies in their view would be run by faith based organizations.

I believe, the other neoconservative mission is to destroy all public service unions, which would in turn gut collective bargaining agreements, and return all public service workers to subsistence level.
That is their dream and that is my nightmare.

Remember the neoconservatives despise all public service workers except when they experience a car wreck or their house is on fire.
EngChina.

[thebigbike]

11:21 PM on 10/02/2010

the anti-tax repubs have declared that explicitly. grover norquist boasts of neing abel to "starve the beast of revenue until it can be drowned like a baby in the bathtub"

[veritas aequitas]

07:28 PM on 10/02/2010

Do you agree with liberal journalist Michael Wolf that "some mass misperception put Barack Obama in the White House and now nobody knows what to do with him"?
What Do We Do With Barack Obama?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-wolff/what-do-we-do-with-barack_b_745187.html

[dfranz]

06:34 PM on 10/02/2010

If the republicans do take power, nothing will get done over presidential vetos and Americans will rise up again in 2012 and slap them down again like in 2008. Let's face it their plans are designed to manipulate the country so they can justify squeezing the people again and justify giving billionaires tax breaks. The lack of empathy for those damaged the most by the recession is disgraceful.

[veritas aequitas]

07:29 PM on 10/02/2010

Wow, you know nothing about what is going on with Republicans today.

[Whinger]

06:28 PM on 10/02/2010

"Someone's gonna get hurt before you're through
Someone's gonna have pay for the things you do
How many hearts must break, how many is it gonna take
To satisfy you, just to satisfy you."

[marilyn 63]

04:48 PM on 10/02/2010

why of course they (Republicans) would cut funds for education. did you really think they could have an educated electorate????

[veritas aequitas]

07:29 PM on 10/02/2010

The best thing for Republicans would be to have real history and civics taught in schools.

[veritas aequitas]

07:31 PM on 10/02/2010

The Founders were Classical Liberals. not moderne Welfare Liberals.

Classical liberalism was a political ideology that developed in the nineteenth century in Western Europe, and the Americas. It was committed to the ideal of limited government and liberty of individuals including freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and free markets.

It drew on the economics of Adam Smith, a psychological understanding of individual liberty, natural law and utilitarianism, and a belief in progress. Classical liberals established political parties that were called "Liberal", although in the United States classical liberalism came to dominate both existing major political parties.

The phrase classical liberalism is also sometimes used to refer to all forms of liberalism before the twentieth century. And some conservatives and libertarians use the term classical liberalism to describe their belief in the primacy of economic freedom and minimal government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_­liberalism

[cyndeewi]

04:45 PM on 10/02/2010

Yet these Bozo's will probably win!

[Le Facteur 99]

03:16 PM on 10/02/2010

Republican
A Pledge to America

Index

AIG, 15, 20, 32
Boehner, John, Brilliance of, 1, 3, 5, 14, 18, 29, 32, 45; Future Speaker of House, 1-23, 27-45, 47-; Tanning suggestions, 33-37
Bush, George W. (See tax cuts for wealthy)
Cantor, Eric, 5,7
Defense, Increased spending for, 14-49
Deregulation, 1-65
Employment, full, 33
Free enterprise, unbridled, 22-57
Gingrich, Newt, 1-7
Government, bad, 17-37
Handouts, 1
Incoherent, 1-65
Iran (see defense spending)
Jobs, 2,4
Kenya, 2-5
Lemmings (see Tea Party)
Misanthropic, 1-43
Nonsense, 1-
Obstruction, 2,4, 7, 9, 22-45
Palin, Sarah, 6, 7
Quit (see Palin, Sarah)
Riots (see Welfare, elimination of)
Senseless (see Small government)
Small government (see Senseless)
Tax cuts, For corporations, 1- ; For wealthy, 1- ; For middle class, no reference
Tea Party (see Lemmings)
Uninformed (see Palin, Sarah)
Wars, future, 17-34
Welfare, elimination of, 12-44

[earlyblue]

03:03 PM on 10/02/2010

REPUBLICAN 'PLEDGE' TO AMERICA: We republicans pledge to control all the media messaging, control all of Americas wealth, sieze all the power, and line our own pockets.

[smitywerbanjagrmanjensen]

09:57 AM on 10/02/2010

So......................by cutting back spending to 2008 levels, liberals are saying the world will end. Is that about right?

[earlyblue]

03:10 PM on 10/02/2010

Guess what Smity - the world very well may end if we allow the sinister NEOCON'S to run things again. Their next war of choice could very well become the war to end all wars (and all life on this planet - including republican cockroaches)

[chrish]

09:37 AM on 10/02/2010

Those crazy compassionless conservatives are at it again! We can only hope that it is THEIR voters' homes that burn to the ground while 911 searches for the nearest fire station to respond.

[DantesE]

09:14 AM on 10/02/2010

This is a well worn teabaglican tactic. Here in Mi., every year they have a plan to balance the budget with out raising taxes, in fact they will cut taxes. Then they hit the news waves touting this "budget." The only problem is the thing is a secret. They will not say "how" they will do this, they just say they will.
There are some posters here with the courage to say cut every thing. Let those without fend for themselves. One of them calls this a game. In this "game" the penalties for being born poor or being of modest means will be exacerbated. In this fantasy game all the poor, starving, helpless, and hopeless masses will just fade away leaving just enough serfs to serve the masters.
Oh police and fire protection will be cut too. Hmmm. How will this work out?
Let's see;
Millions of hopeless, starving people -police and federal law enforcement - fire and first responders +millions of guns of every kind + million and millions of rounds for those guns = ?
Go ahead tealady,wdw505 tell us how this game ends.

[shaggyct]

09:59 AM on 10/02/2010

You are SO fanned. Outstanding comment.

I like to think that these small government libertarians are well-intentioned but just sickeningly naive, because the alternative is that this country is full of selfish, cruel ideologues, and I refuse to accept that. Their brutal Darwinian ideology is based on the incoherent rantings of a third-grade science fiction writer that most of us grew out of in our teens, and they are so terrified of modernity that they seek solace in a romanticized notion of rugged frontier individualism that they learned about in the movies.

They are so disdainful of modern civilization that they see other human beings as mere animals, and imagine that nature will sort out the strong from the weak. Which is fine if one is prepared to abandon the notion of homo sapiens as a higher functioning species. Perhaps they think that without laws, without government, without regulation, without education, without safety nets, and without any social or legal constraints on our behavior, we'll all be really nice to one another.

That is until the nuclear power station in their state melts down because there is no DoE to enforce safety standards, no FEMA to evacuate the population, no police or firefighters to deal with the aftermath, no Department of Health to administer emergency assistance, and no EPA to deal with the cleanup.

[ThermoChemist]

10:05 AM on 10/02/2010

"They are so disdainful of modern civilization... until the nuclear power station in their state melts down because there is no DoE to enforce safety standards, no FEMA to evacuate the population, no police or firefighters to deal with the aftermath, no Department of Health to administer emergency assistance, and no EPA to deal with the cleanup."
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: )

As usual, Shaggy, nicely put..!

+++

-- I AM AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE SH!THEEL
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/98rob/seriously_rnc_oh_its_on_now/

-- Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/day_in_the_life_of_joe_middle-.html

[DantesE]

10:55 AM on 10/02/2010

This is a long running theme for them. So many simple, what does their spokes person say "common sense solutions." They do sound simple.
We think about the consequences of these "simple common sense solutions." They think do this and all will be better. We think how will we do that? What will it look like? What happens to the people?
I have faith that as a people Americans have more compassion for ourselves and each other than these teabaglicans give us credit for. This pledge and the fantasies about taking over the government are just that fantasies. They will work as well as "tax cuts increase revenue and decrease the deficit, wars pay for themselves" and of course that Americans are willing to elevate themselves by standing on the bodies of the poor and children.

PS At the risk of sounding presumptuous, Get some rest shag

[shaggyct]

10:00 AM on 10/02/2010

You are SO fanned. Outstanding comment.

I like to think that these small government libertarians are well-intentioned but just sickeningly naive, because the alternative is that this country is full of selfish, cruel ideologues, and I refuse to accept that. Their brutal Darwinian ideology is based on the incoherent ra.ntings of a third-grade science fiction writer that most of us grew out of in our teens, and they are so terrified of modernity that they seek solace in a romanticized notion of rugged frontier individualism that they learned about in the movies.

They are so disdainful of modern civilization that they see other human beings as mere an!mals, and imagine that nature will sort out the strong from the weak. Which is fine if one is prepared to abandon the notion of h0m0 sapiens as a higher functioning species. Perhaps they think that without laws, without government, without regulation, without education, without safety nets, and without any social or legal constraints on our behavior, we'll all be really nice to one another.

That is until the nuclear power station in their state melts down because there is no DoE to enforce safety standards, no FEMA to evacuate the population, no police or firefighters to deal with the aftermath, no Department of Health to administer emergency assistance, and no EPA to deal with the cleanup.

[Neokelt13]

08:22 AM on 10/02/2010

Rethugs never cut any taxes for me. I never made it into that tax level, thats something for millionaires to enjoy. Rethugs and republibaggers have cut many services, or charged more for a scaled back version of them. This is their same old same old chant. I am not that stupid. They are gonna keep taxes the same for most people (those who make less than a million a year), cut taxes for businesses who destroy our environment and move our jobs to China, and make me pay more for even fewer services. People need to see this and wake to their lies and propaganda!