Daniel Schorr, elder statesman of NPR, just had a terrific and necessary commentaryon All Things Considered, about the $50 billion of budget cuts about topass the US House. Of course, these mostly impact social programs forthe most vulnerable in society: Medicare, school lunches, help for thedisabled and elderly, etc. Could that money come out of the $14.5 billion in subsidies for oil companies? Or the estate tax? Nope, gotta crush the poor.
Here’s the nutshell:
When House Republicans talk about reducing entitlements, they weren’t talking about those to oil companies.
The audio clip will be up around 7:30 EST tonight at the link above.
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Sometimes Daniel Schorr annoys the piss out of me, but sometimes he’s on the money.
The Senate is no better, where John McCain was part of a group proposing an across the board 5% cut on all discretionary (and you know how that’ll be defined) spending. No profile in courage here; why won’t McCain go back to the pork spending and corporate wet kisses in the highway and energy bills he decried at the time?