So right after we have lost track of the victims of Katrina, after the pictures on our TV screens have faded, the Republicans seem to have forgotten all about the poor. They are still trumpeting tax cuts for the rich, and program cuts for the poor, who sill have enven less access to health care, housing, and food stamps. Great Ideas, Guys.
House GOP Leaders Set to Cut Spending: "Beginning this week, the House GOP lawmakers will take steps to cut as much as $50 billion from the fiscal 2006 budget for health care for the poor, food stamps and farm supports, as well as considering across-the-board cuts in other programs. Only last month, then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (Tex.) and other GOP leaders quashed demands within their party for budget cuts to pay for the soaring cost of hurricane relief."