Sent to me by my dear friend Martie. (A Jehovah's Witness, just as a note of interest. LOL)
"The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped." - Hubert H. Humphrey
Can there be any doubt of where this government falls on the morality chart?
Exerpt from an analysis by The Coalition on Human Needs (full text here )
"The Bush Administration’s FY 2008 budget would make its tax cuts permanent. Between FY 2008 and FY 2017, these tax cuts will hand $739 billion to millionaires alone, and will total $3.4 trillion in lost revenue, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In order to pay for these tax breaks for the non-needy and to increase funding for the military, the budget cuts vital services for the poor, near-poor, and middle class. A budget that puts first things first would invest in these services. The Bush budget does the opposite.
The choices in the Bush budget are clear. In FY 2008, spending for education, housing, the environment, and all the other programs requiring annual appropriations will total nearly $392 billion in the Bush budget, $13 billion below the cost of keeping up with inflation. The examples below show the results of such a squeeze: hundreds of thousands of children losing health coverage and child care; hundreds of thousands of low-income seniors losing modest packages of food aid and housing assistance. In the President’s proposal for FY 2008, special education, vocational education, and higher education are all cut below FY 2006 levels. These are just a few of the failures to invest in giving people a chance to build better lives for themselves. On the other hand, in FY 2008, people with incomes of a million or more will receive $49 billion from the tax cuts enacted since 2001."
at 12:16 PM :: ~#~
