Broken Record: Boehner Wants To Cut All Social Programs – Except School Vouchers...

[Adsos Letter]

Source: The Wall of Separation
March 9th, 2011
By Joseph L. Conn.

When House Speaker John Boehner flew to Nashville to speak to the National Religious Broadcasters a few days ago, he sounded a familiar refrain.

Lamenting that the national debt is now over $14.1 trillion, he told the TV preachers, “In other words, we’re broke. Broke, going on bankrupt…. Here we must speak the truth. Yes, this level of debt is unsustainable. It is also immoral.”

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Asked by Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network about federal aid to budget-strapped states, he replied, “Well, there are no more bailouts coming from Washington. We’re broke! We’re broke! We don’t have money to dish out to the states.”

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It’s perplexing, then, to see Boehner railroading through the House a $20 million subsidy for private religious schools in the District of Columbia. Tomorrow, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is scheduled to mark up and send to the House floor HR 471, Boehner’s plan to revive and expand the D.C. voucher program that pays for tuition at nonpublic schools.

LINK: http://blog.au.org/2011/03/09/broken-record-boehner-wants-to-cut-all-social-programs-%E2%80%93-except-school-vouchers-except-school-vouchers-except-school-vouchers%E2%80%A6/
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[The Wielding Truth]

1. Hope those vouchers include Madras ah and Coven support. As you can tell I

see no common sense in vouchers for any private schools. We are so lucky to have government funding for all children to get an education. Of course it could be better, but helping private schools is foolish unless all schools are held to basic standards. If the radical right want my money to only teach their so called Christian beliefs I have to oppose it.