Kill The Poor

But now the surpluses have turned into record deficits. President Bush is not about to take back his tax cuts, but in setting spending levels in the budget he will deliver to Congress early in the new year, he will single out a loser -- perhaps several -- for every winner. [...]

Bush's budget writers have not made all their decisions, and those they have made are closely held. But it is expected that, to help Bush keep his promise of cutting the deficit in half over five years, the budget will "maintain strict discipline", as the president said at a news conference last week.

What You Can Do: Contact your representatives, telling them the budget needs to make steep, ahem, painful cuts in the military and in domestic policing, and that any "supplemental" funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should be rejected outright, and the soldiers brought home.

Yeah, they're probably going to tell you to get fucked. But the more people that raise their voice, the more likely (relatively speaking) we are to be heard.

Update, 12/28/04: Salinas, California is set to become the nation's largest city without a library system -- for want of $3 Million (about what the United States is spending every thirty minutes in its obliteration of Iraq).

Posted by Eddie Tews at December 27, 2004 08:08 PM