take19 - TAKEN!!!

Right on the heels of Sue Kelly's vote for the $70 billion Republican tax cut for the wealthy comes a GOP budget resolution that cuts key programs for the working families of America. Perhaps the most drastic cut is the $2.2 billion being cut from the Department of Education in 2007. The same people who cut federal funding of student loans and drastically hiked interest rates on federal student loans are now cutting $2,200,000,000 from the Education Department. Why is Sue Kelly and the GOP doing everything they can to bankrupt the American education system? The answer is simple, so they can offer extravagant tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans.

The GOP budget resolution also includes:

• cuts in funding to almost every job program in the Dept. of Health and Human Services
• underfunding of Veteran's programs to the tune of approx. $6 billion
• Huge increases in TRICARE medical costs to veterans. In many cases costs will be doubled and tripled for retired senior enlisted personnel and retired officers.
• cuts that could reduce the size of the Army National Guard by as much as 17,000
• cuts $6.1 billion below current funding levels that fund Homeland Security port security grants that protect the physical security of our ports.

So keep in mind that these cuts are thanks to Sue Kelly and the GOP who feel that those earning over a million dollars a year need a $42,000 tax cut.