You Want MORE Gruel??

Today, the House voted to cut $50 billion from spending to pay for Katrina. Notice what was not on the table: $75 billion in an additional round of tax cuts targeted to the wealthiest people on the planet. Who is going to pay for these cuts: poor college students, single mothers and foster kids.

This sounds like a bill straight from a Dickens novel. Was this bill submitted by Congressman Chokemchilde and Senator Parsimony? Next on the agenda, cuts to Medicaid, which will force states to dump poor people from receiving healthcare. In an ultimate irony worthy of Dickens sardonic pen, many Katrina victims will be the victims of the Hurricane offset bill. We'll rebuild your shanty, but your health care has to go.

It seems the GOP leaders are trying out for the part of Mr. and Mrs. Squeers from Nicholas Nickelby.

No more gruel!