House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) last week released the House Republicans first round of proposed budget cuts, laying out about $32 billion in overall cuts, but without naming any specific program reductions. Ryan has been justifying his refusal to name a specific program that he’d cut from the budget by punting to the Appropriations Committee. “[Naming specifics] is what is gonna happen in the appropriations process down the road. So I can’t tell you the answer to that because, as a budget committee person, we simply lower the cap and then those things go down,” Ryan said.
Isn’t magic wonderful? And you don’t even have to think about the kids who are going to go hungry and without medical care, perhaps even without shelter. Somebody else is responsible for that.
Today, the Appropriations Committee — chaired by Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) — released the specific cuts that House Republicans are proposing to get below Ryan’s cap. Of course, the cuts consist of reductions to common GOP bogeymen like the National Endowment for the Arts and Amtrak. But the House Republicans have a preoccupation with cutting programs that affect women and their babies.
You can read the list at Think Progress. The point I wanted to make is that these guys either haven’t been paying attention to what’s happening around the world as governments cut off their citizens’ ability to feed themselves (even in England), or they just don’t care. I suspect it’s both – the first in the sense that they don’t have a clue as to why people are rising up.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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