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Tammy's Take 1 of 2
First the Congress funded the famous "Bridge to Nowhere last year, located in Alaska. The pork barrel bridge connected a town of 8,000 people to an island with less than 50 people. The bridge is higher than the Brooklyn Bridge and cost approximately $223 million to construct. Secondly the president has come under immense fire over his continuing escalating deficit from the American people. With his approval ratings so low the appointed dictator and a few of his supporters in Congress have come up with a new idea. It is called Line Item Veto Act of 2006.
The Act would give his dictatorship unprecedented control over the nations budget. I believe it was engineered to hoodwink the unsuspecting American people. The act would give the president power to veto almost any program or project. He could veto Medicare payments, public funds for roads or highways, training for the workforce, student loans in short any thing he wants; he could simply say that they were a pork barrel items.
If you think that Bush would not cut such important social programs let me share with you what I have found in the 2007 budget. He would eliminate 42 education programs at a cost of $3.1 billion, recommends cutting Medicaid, Veterans health care, native American services, cuts in nutrition and food for nursing mothers, services for abused and neglected children, Head start, employment training for workers, housing for the elderly and disabled, energy conservation, clean drinking water, roads and schools. The number one idiot in America, your beloved president George Bush, is bludgeoning these items to death with no remorse. I ask you? Is this a man who professes to be a Christian and performs Christian acts and who care's deeply for all Americans?
Right now Congress has the authority over funding for such programs. The Line item Veto Act of 2006 would dramatically reduce the ability and power of Congress. The Act would allow the president to alter or cut the amount of funding altogether to any program that Congress had approved. Even though the president could pick and choose what and how much of a program to cut, the Congress could not pick and choose what vetoed item to restore. The Congress would have to vote either a up or down decision for any package as a whole. In other words the president could combine high cost pork barrel items in with greatly needed social services and in effect get his pork barrel items through with ease.
Remember Bush's tax cuts? Well half of our deficit is the result of tax cuts since 2001, The tax cut of early May provided the average American a tax cut of $20.00 and the millionaires of American received a cut of about $42,000.000 These tax cuts no matter how unfair and wrong would not be included in the Line Item Veto Act of 2006.
The act will not restore financial responsibility; will not get America out of our deficit. This Act will do nothing more than allow more pork barrel spending at the cost to those in need of social services, and the cost to the average working class of America.
The only way America can get back on track and in the black with her finances is to impose the budget of the Clinton years where this country was actually in the black and had a budget surplus.
Tammy
Tammy's Take 2 of 2
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