GOP spending cuts would affect millions of people

[cal04]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110119/ap_on_bi_ge/us_republicans_spending

Low-income students may get smaller grants and the newly disabled might have to wait longer for their benefits. And just about every politician is going to get an earful from the local PTA if school aid gets whacked.

Republicans are finding it's one thing to issue a blanket promise to cut spending, an entirely different matter when you actually take the scissors to $1 of every $6 spent by agencies like the IRS, the FBI, NASA and the National Park Service. Federal layoffs would be unavoidable, the White House warns.

That's the real-world impact of House Republicans' campaign promise to cut $100 billion from the budgets of domestic agencies. Next week, they plan to vote on a resolution setting appropriations for the rest of the year at 2008 pre-recession levels in place before President Barack Obama took office.

The vote will be largely symbolic. The actual cuts would have to be made in appropriations bills that would have to clear a 60-vote hurdle in the Senate, where Republicans hold only 47 seats.

[Laelth]

1. This goes all the way back to Reagan.

They posture and they lie. They lack the courage to actually cut the budget. That's why we always have soaring deficits when they are in power.

-Laelth

[RC]

2. The have crippled the private, now they are trying for the public sector.

Why is not one of our so called leaders calling to stop the wars and cut the Pentagon budget?