Friday, September 23, 2005

Captain Future's Log

How to pay for Katrina Reconstruction---
“It’s Your Choice!”

The Republican Way (via “Operation Offset” and the Heritage Foundation):

Eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS and NPR, and
Eliminate subsidized student loans for graduate students, and
Eliminate funding for the National Endowment of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and
Terminate Legal Services, and
Close schools for children of U.S. soldiers, and
Cut grants for local responders, and
Cut healthcare for National Guard, and
Freeze funding for the Peace Corps, the Global AIDS Initiative, U.N. peacekeeping operations and many third-world development programs, and
Eliminate the EnergyStar program to encourage energy efficient appliances, and
Eliminate grants to states and to local communities for energy conservation, and
Reduce federal subsidies for Amtrak, and
Eliminate funding for new light-rail programs, and
Cancel hydrogen fuel initiative, and

MORE....

or the Democratic Way (as proposed by Bill Clinton, Center for American Progress, etc.)

Repeal the Bush tax cuts for the very wealthy (and have lots to spare.)



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