Maybe the rich should join the struggle

[Javneh]

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WASHINGTON — Let's get this straight: The administration wants $87 billion in new spending for Iraq, refuses to contemplate rolling back any of its tax cuts to pay for it — and then proposes holding down new spending on child care for mothers trying to leave welfare.

Oh yes, and on Sunday, Vice President Cheney insisted that although he and President Bush have presided over a deficit that's reaching well beyond $500 billion this year, we shouldn't worry. Why? "I am a deficit hawk," Cheney explained. "So is the president." Don't you feel better?

The way to reach a balanced budget, Cheney insisted on "Meet the Press," was "to have fiscal discipline on the rest of the budget." That presumably includes child care.

Not to worry. It may be good for those poor working mothers not to have the child-care money. Warning against the idea of child care as an entitlement, Sen. Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, reassured us: "Making people struggle a little bit is not necessarily the worst thing."

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link
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001732315_dionne17.html

I especially like the last bit
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That's why Congress should reject the new money for Iraq — beyond what's immediately needed by our troops — until the administration gives some ground on its tax cuts. Making the administration struggle a little bit would not necessarily be the worst thing.
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[tabasco]

1. Santorum is the most disgusting snot-nosed pussy I have ever seen

How did the good people of Pennsylvania allow this nazi to become a US senator?

[benfranklin1776]

2. Oh he is the King Turd in the CrapPile Mr. Sanitarium is Yes.

Lack of voter turnout enabled him to slither in. We are working diligently to see that does not happen again the next time he runs. He is a disgrace as a Senator and as a human being as these type of statements for which he is famed show. He has the gall to call himself a Christian. He is in fact the quintessential wolf in sheep's clothing that Jesus warned of.

[indepat]

3. Were Senator Santorum et al willing for those benefiting most from tax

cuts to be made to struggle a little bit, it not only would not necessarily be the worst thing, it might even restore some semblance of fiscal sanity to the operation of the Federal government.

[UpInArms]

4. these pigs have no shame

they are disgusting :puke:

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 17 Sep 2003 at 09:11:00 PM GMT is: