Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Congress, decked out in their dark suits and striped ties, slashed assistance to the neediest Americans while winking at their cronies on Wall Street...
Republican targets include arts and cultural funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives and Records Administration, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. All of the entities are routinely included on GOP lists; federal subsidies for the CPB would be effectively eliminated under the House proposal, fulfilling a long-standing conservative pledge to cut federal ties with National Public Radio and public television.

Money for minority business development, family planning and conservation programs also would be axed. Job-training funds would be reduced by $2 billion. Community health centers, which serve many low-income uninsured people, would lose $1 billion in funding. And more than $200 million would be trimmed from maternal and child health grants, which go to immunizations as well as assistance for blind and disabled children.

So, the likes of Goldman Sachs and Bank of America are "too big to fail", and, conversely, the sick, blind, helpless and dying are "too insignificant to be helped"....Is it just me or does anyone else feel like having each member of Congress arrested for high crimes against humanity?...Who the hell ARE these people in Washington? Is there not a single caring soul left among these pompous, corrupt, thieving psychopaths who claim to represent the people of the United States? If there is a God, may he send a lightning bolt down upon these arrogant bastards...

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