Panel Approves $10B Cut in Health Care

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Damn them...damn them all to Hell.

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Panel Approves $10B Cut in Health Care

By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WriterTue Oct 25,11:16 PM ET

A Republican-led effort to slow spending on health care programs for the poor, elderly and disabled survived a stern test in the Senate Tuesday.

That chamber's Finance Committee, voting along party lines, approved legislation that would trim overall spending on Medicare and Medicaid by about $10 billion over five years. The committee's 11 Republicans supported the legislation. The committee's nine Democrats opposed it.

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1. at least the Dems held firm as a group to oppose this.

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2. I heard Reed call it an immoral budget last night.

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3. Sick. Just sick.

And for that sickness, the only cure is to be voted out in 2006. Will regular folk republicans, still vote against their best interests then? Only if it effects them directly, IMO... eventually it will get so bad, it will effect most people, then they will vote these callous people out. I hate to see it get worse, but it may have to, in order for real change to occur.

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4. With a military junta running things this is how things go

With a military empire you can not take care of the old, young, sick and other stuff. But you can build new bases in far off places with military hospitals, stores and golf clubs. With planes to fly the big brass to these places. Maybe have cuts in Pell Grands but not cuts at the air force Academy etc. And to top it all off the voters seem to want this. And to think that the last war we won, the cold war?. only left the most pop. country in the word still in its grips. So much for this all working. Over 900 bases over seas that we know about and guess who is paying for them? Why bother about poor people?

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5. I think if this legislation

passes,it will be the end of the republicans in power.I would think all but their most ardent right wingers will see the light.Their financial and social priorities are so warped that they will lose the people who voted for them out of fear of terrorism and that was a lot of people.Now if the Dems would just take up the cause of the working poor and struggling middle class,we would be back in power.