Medicaid and Medicare, student loans, food stamps cut to fund Bush wars

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U.S. House narrowly approves cuts to Medicaid, student loans

ASSOCIATED PRESS- Bush is anxious to sign the bill and move on to next year's budget cycle. On Feb. 6, he is to release his 2007 budget plan, which is likely to call for new cuts to benefits programs like farm subsidies, Medicaid, food stamps and Medicare. Many lawmakers and budget experts are skeptical of the chances for another budget-cut bill during an election year.

Republicans hailed the five-year, $39 billion budget-cutting bill as an important first step to restoring discipline on spending. Democrats attacked the measure as an assault on college students and Medicaid patients and said powerful Washington lobbyists had too much influence on it.

The measure is a leftover item from the GOP fall agenda. Bush is eager to sign it into law.

http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060201/NEWS/60201068



Bush to seek $70 bln for Iraq, Afghanistan wars: sources
Thu Feb 2, 2006

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will ask Congress for another $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, congressional sources said on Thursday.

The sources said that money, which would come on top of about $330 billion for the wars so far, would be for this fiscal year. The White House likely will seek another $50 billion in emergency money in the fiscal 2007 defense spending bill for the wars, the sources said.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-02-02T180043Z_01_WAT004783_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-IRAQ-FUNDS.xml

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1. The Irish did this response once to the hardline Tories

The hardline Tories wanted to starve Irish babies, so the Irish suggested that if the Tories wanted to kill Irish babies, they might as well eat them.

I think this is a damned good idea.

Is it me or is this all beginning to sound like history repeating itself in a time loop?

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2. plowshares into weapons