[Marxism] What GOP and Dem "moderate" scum slashed from "stimulus"

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep, school lunches are out.  Head Start is out.  Constructing schools is
out. Getting the internet more deeply into rural and poor areas is out.
Stabilizing state budgets (i.e., maintaining social programs, preventing
layoffs) is out. 
Of course, many items can be found that we would not favor, expecially
funding for cops of various types. But frankly, one thing in a period like
this that can be guaranteed is that the police will not be underfunded.
Anything that they lose here will be popped into some other legislation and
approved by voice vote.
What's left is the unemployment compensation support (at least, I assume
from my reading of the New York Times, which noted that the extension and
$25 weekly increase in unemployment compensation had made the cut, no doubt
because of the serendipity of the announcement of the massive increase in
jobless last month with the hatchet work of the "moderates."
All indications are that the work of the "moderates" of both parties to gut
programs that protected us against the crisis, to some extent, had Obama's
okay.. 
Obama has not said a word about the massacre of the social wage-"safety net"
aspect of the stimulus., but simply advocates the gutted program as it is
left. His talk about unifying "all of us" in this case means unity of the
political probusiness elite against us. This is not even a criticism, but
simply a statement of fact.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/President44/story?id=6828160&page=1
<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/President44/story?id=6828160&page=1&;> 
CNN obtained, from a Democratic leadership aide, a list of some programs
that have been cut, either entirely or partially:
        Partially cut:
        * $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill
$7 billion)
        * $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)
        * $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund
(original bill $800 million)
        * $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(original bill $427 million)
        * $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200
million)
        * $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill
$600 million)
        * $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)
        Fully eliminated:
        * $55 million for historic preservation
        * $122 million for Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters
        * $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization
        * $50 million for Cooperative State Research, Education and
Extension Service 
        * $65 million for watershed rehabilitation
        * $100 million for distance learning
        * $98 million for school nutrition
        * $50 million for aquaculture
        * $2 billion for broadband
        * $100 million for National Institute of Standards and Technology
        * $50 million for detention trustee
        * $25 million for Marshalls Construction
        * $300 million for federal prisons
        * $300 million for BYRNE Formula grant program
        * $140 million for BYRNE Competitive grant program
        * $10 million state and local law enforcement
        * $50 million for NASA
        * $50 million for aeronautics
        * $50 million for exploration
        * $50 million for Cross Agency Support
        * $200 million for National Science Foundation
        * $100 million for science
        * $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees
        * $4.5 billion for General Services Administration 
        * $89 million General Services Administration operations
        * $50 million from Department of Homeland Security
        * $200 million Transportation Security Administration
        * $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use
        * $25 million for Fish and Wildlife
        * $55 million for historic preservation
        * $20 million for working capital fund
        * $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement
        * $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management
        * $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start
        * $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity
        * $2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants
        * $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)
        * $16 billion for school construction
        * $3.5 billion for higher education construction
        * $1.25 billion for project based rental
        * $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization
        * $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing
        * $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion
of state incentive grants) 
        
WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?*
Greg Dempsey
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST
Obama - A New Beginning
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