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Wed 23 Feb, 2005 03:41 pm
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Quote:Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Cut, hack, slash.
Forwarded by a co-worker today: The FULL LIST of programs cut under the Shrub's new budget. Italics mark programs that I am personally sad to see go.
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The 154 programs that President Bush proposed to eliminate or cut in his 2006 budget. He would terminate 99 programs and make major spending reductions in 55. Bush has recommended 59 of the 99 terminations before. Twenty-seven of the 55 programs targeted for spending reductions have been previously submitted to Congress. An x after a program's name indicates Bush has targeted it before.
TERMINATE:
-Agriculture Department
Agricultural Marketing Service biotechnology program
Forest Service economic action program x
High cost energy grants x
Natural Resources Conservation Service watershed and flood prevention operations x
Research and extension grant earmarks and low priority programs x
-Commerce Department
Advanced technology program x
Emergency steel guarantee loan program x
Public telecommunications facilities, planning and construction program x
-Education Department
Comprehensive school reform x
Educational technology state grants
Even Start
(High school program terminations:)
Vocational education state grants
Vocational education national activities x
Tech prep state grants x
Upward Bound
Talent Search
GEAR UP
Smaller learning communities x
Perkins Loans: capital contributions and loan cancellations
Regional education laboratories x
Safe and Drug Free Schools state grants
(Small elementary and secondary education programs:)
Javits gifted and talented education x
National Writing Project x
School leadership x
Dropout prevention program x
Close Up fellowships x
Ready to Teach x
Parental information and resource centers x
Alcohol abuse reduction x
Foundations for Learning
Mental health integration in schools - this one makes me SO MAD!
Community technology centers x
Exchanges with historic whaling and trading partners x
Foreign language assistance x
Excellence in economic education
Arts in education x
Women's educational equity x
Elementary and secondary school counseling x
Civic education x
Star schools x
(Smaller higher education programs:)
Higher education demonstration projects for students w/disabilities x
Underground railroad program x
Interest subsidy grants
(Small job training and adult education programs:)
Occupational and employment information x
Tech-prep demonstration x
Literacy programs for prisoners x
State grants for incarcerated youth x
(Small postsecondary student financial assistance programs:)
LEAP x
Byrd scholarships
B.J. Stupak Olympic scholarships x
Thurgood Marshall legal opportunity x
(Small vocational rehabilitation programs:)
Vocational rehabilitation recreational programs x
Vocational rehabilitation migrant and seasonal workers x
Projects with industry x
Supported employment x
Teacher quality enhancement program
-Energy Department
Hydropower program
Nuclear energy plant optimization x
Nuclear energy research initiative x
Oil and gas programs x
-Health and Human Services Department
Administration for Children and Families Community Service Programs
ACF Early Learning Opportunities Fund x
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention congressional earmarks x
CDC Preventive Health and Health Services block grant
CDC youth media campaign
Direct service worker delivery grants
Health Resources and Services Administration emergency medical services for children
HRSA health facilities construction congressional earmarks x
HRSA Healthy Community access program x
HRSA state planning grant program x
HRSA trauma care x
HRSA traumatic brain injury
Health Resources and Services Administration universal newborn hearing screening x
Real Choice systems change grants
-Housing and Urban Development Department
HOPE VI x
-Interior Department
Bureau of Land Management Jobs-in-the-Woods program
Land and water conservation fund state recreation grants, National Parks Service
National Park Service statutory aid
Rural fire assistance (Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs)
-Justice Department
Byrne discretionary grants x
Byrne justice assistance grants
Community Oriented Policing Services hiring grants
COPS interoperable communications technology grants x
COPS law enforcement technology grants
Juvenile accountability block grants x
National Drug Intelligence Center
Other state/local law enforcement assistance program terminations
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) x
-Labor Department
Migrant and seasonal farm worker training program x
Reintegration of youthful offenders x
-Transportation Department
National defense tank vessel construction program
Railroad rehabilitation infrastructure financing loan program
-Enviromental Protection Agency
Unrequested projects x
Water quality cooperative agreements
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Hubble Space telescope robotic servicing mission -(so sue me, I love the Hubble)
-Other agencies
National Veterans Business Development Corporation
Postal Service: revenue forgone appropriation
Small Business Administration: Microloan program
SBA: Small Business investment company participating securities program
MAJOR REDUCTIONS:
-Agriculture Department
Federal in-house research x
Forest Service capital improvements and maintenance
Forest Service wildland fire management
Biomass research and development
Broadband x
Commodity Credit Corp. - bioenergy x
CCC - Market Access program x
Farm bill's environmental quality incentives program x
Farm bill's conservation security program
Farm bill's wildlife habitat incentives program x
Farm bill's farm and ranchland protection x
Farm bill's agricultural management assistance
Initiative for future agriculture food systems x
Renewable energy x
Rural firefighter grants x
Rural strategic investment program
Rural business investment program
Value-added grants x
Watershed rehabilitation x
Natural Resources Conservation Service conservation operations x
NRCS resource conservation and development program
Water and wastewater grants and loans x
-Commerce Department
Manufacturing Extension Partnership x
-Education Department
Adult education state grants
State grants for innovation
-Energy Department
Environmental management
-Health and Human Services Department
Health Resources and Services Administration Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education payment program x
HRSA health professions x
HRSA rural health x
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration programs of regional and national significance
State, local & hospital bioterrorism preparedness grants
-Housing and Urban Development Department
Housing for persons with disabilities x
Native American housing block grant
Public housing capital fund
-Interior Department
Bureau of Indian Affairs school construction
National Heritage Area grants x
Payments in lieu of taxes x
United States Geological Survey mineral resources program x
-Justice Department
Federal Bureau of Prisons construction program x
High intensity drug trafficking areas program x
Juvenile justice law enforcement assistance programs x
-Labor Department
International Labor Affairs Bureau x
Office of Disability Employment Policy
Workforce Investment Act pilot and demonstration projects x
-State Department
Assistance for the independent states of the former Soviet Union
-Transportation Department
Federal Aviation Administration - facilities and equipment
FAA - Airport improvement program
Federal Railroad Administration - next generation high speed rail
-Treasury Department
Internal Revenue Service - taxpayer service
-Environmental Protection Agency
Alaska Native villages
Clean water state revolving fund
-National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Aeronautics: vehicle systems program
Jupiter icy moons orbiter
-Other agencies
National Archives and Records Administration: National Historical Publications and Records Commission
U.S. Institute of Peace, construction of new building
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enjoy.
Cycloptichorn
What does this endless list mean? Absolutely nothing. You have posted it in order to shock the liberal audience, (hey dudes, look at the appalling conservative economic policy, they cut social spending and ask for more money for Iraq). But you provide no evidence of the amount of money which these programs cost, no information about how much money could these cuts save to reduce deficit. You don't take into account their size. You just thought:" it would be nice to post this list. There are so many programs which look so left-wing "
Not to mention the interference in the economic activity due to these subsidies and other so called social programs which you devotedly support. About economy, there is only one true idea: we know too little to allow the government to take action actively on issues where only individual initiative should be concerned.
Quote:There are so many programs which look so left-wing
Hmm....
What programs look so right-wing?
there is some merit to what hayden said, dooks, in that there are no dollar amounts listed. other than that i don't get the "liberal looking program" thing either.
now, if conservatives are all that concerned about the financial health of the country and reducing the largest deficit in american history, perhaps rather than cutting funds to programs such as education that benefit all americans, they would be interested in seeing frivolous programs that "promote marriage" done away with. they might insist that their be no more wasted dollars creating faith based prisons. a person that really cared about cutting the deficit (a chunk of which has been and still is the ongoing war and aftermath of the iraq invasion) and keeping our country strong would not complain bitterly about paying the taxes required to so.
wouldn't they ?
Well, you sure have me pegged, Thomas Hayden.
Cycloptichorn
Cycloptichorn wrote:Well, you sure have me pegged, Thomas Hayden.
Cycloptichorn
aww cyclo, you big ol' liberal you!
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