I’m so angry with this president!

As if this nation has nothing more important on its plate than destroying the New Deal. The “budget” that the Weasel is proposing displays a level of contempt for poor and middle income Americans that just takes my breath away. It’s literally astonishing! Here’s Salon’s take on the abomination today:

Bush's Lean And Mean New Budget
For low-income Americans, who will have less money to pay for child care, heating bills, housing and public parks, it will be mostly mean.
By Julia Scott, February 9, 2005, Salon

When President Bush released his "lean" budget for 2006 Monday, middle-class and low-income Americans had no idea just how right he was. They can expect nothing but lean times ahead. Lean times for those who depend on Medicaid, child-care assistance, or clean water. Lean times for those who rely on food stamps or federal supplements to utility bills. Lean times for those who would like to see their local community build a new baseball field. …

CUT: $57 million from the Food Stamp Program: Bush's food stamp cuts will take food out of the mouths of 300,000 families. …

CUT: $200 million from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program: Right now, 5 million families -- mostly low-income families with elderly and disabled members -- benefit from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which supplements their heating bills in cold weather. …

CUT: $361 million from the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund: The Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund is the country's largest source of federal funding to upgrade sewage systems. It has distributed nearly $50 billion to states since 1988 to repair old sewer plants and keep raw sewage out of rivers and lakes. Bush wants to cut $361 million from the program this year, leaving states with $730 million. That's in addition to the $250 million slashed from the fund last year because of the budget crisis. …

CUT: Community Development Block Grant programs: In the past, the Department of Housing and Urban Development dished out Community Development Block Grant programs to cities to help low-income residents. Cities could then cash in the grants -- a key part of their efforts to keep folks off the streets -- on affordable housing, redevelopment, and social services like job training and day care. …

CUT: Upward Bound, Talent Search and GEAR UP: College preparatory programs Upward Bound, Talent Search and Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) provide funding to schools and organizations that help low- and moderate-income students get into college. …

CUT: $48 million from the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program: In his State of the Union speeches, President Bush loves to imagine a shiny future where people drive hydrogen cars, watch TV by wind power and take baths in water heated by the sun. Right! …

CUT: The stateside Land and Water Conservation Fund: This $91 million slash in the Department of Interior budget literally eliminates federal matching funds for building and maintaining public playgrounds, soccer fields, bike trails and walking paths. Once again, it's folks without expendable incomes, those who can't pack up the Jeep Grand Cherokee to travel to our nation's charismatic national parks, who lose out.

The “Compassionate Conservative” may feel your pain, but he must be taking Vicodin or something so that he doesn’t notice. He’s also proposing new tax sheltered savings accounts to benefit those earning over $100K that will cost $35 billion per year when fully implemented and of course wants to make those “temporary” tax cuts permanent. That will cost a mere $1 Trillion (with a “T”) over the next 10 years).

Kinda’ gives you a warm feeling, doesn’t it? There’s more at the link above.