By LIBBY QUAID
Under orders to whittle agriculture spending by $3 billion, Republicans in Congress propose to slash food programs for the poor by $574 million and subsidies and conservation programs by $1 billion each, The Associated Press has learned.
The plan by Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., would reduce farmers’ payments by 2.5 percent across the board, slashing spending by $1.145 billion over five years. That’s half the 5 percent the Bush (...)
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Congress Seeks to Slash Food Aid for Poor
8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Is the Dollar Still Falling?
7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
October 6, 2005
The Latest Twists in Global Neoliberalism Is the Dollar Still Falling? By ROBERT POLLIN
In his classic work, The General Theory, published in the depths of the 1930s Depression, John Maynard Keynes famously observed that "Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a (...) -
Republicans G.A.S. Act Exploits Katrina For Gas & Oil Industry
7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Numerous environmental and public service groups have issued warnings on the upcoming G.A.S. Act, HR 3893, scheduled for a vote in the House on Friday. Donald J. Borut, executive director of the National League of Cities has bluntly said that "the goal of this draft legislation seems to be to pass every provision that didn’t make it into the recently-enacted energy bill."
The National Environmental Trust has said that the bill “channels taxpayer dollars to oil companies, virtually (...) -
GTech Lottery Influence Taints Miers Nomination
4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
I’m not saying Harriet Miers has taken a penny from GTECH, Guy Snowden or anybody else. Let me make that clear. But she, and the whole cabal from Texas, absolutely reek of
Ms. Miers’ time on the Texas Lottery Commission has been well reported, usually with Ms. Miers as the driving force who rooted out corruption and helped the Texas Lottery turn over a new leaf. “In other circles, the Texas Lottery Commission is known as the incident that permanently sealed Bush’s Texas Air National (...) -
FEMA, Capitalism, and Karl Marx’s Crystal Ball
4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
by Mike Whitney
October 3, 2005
The Bush administration began the dismantling FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) as one of the first orders of business when they reorganized the government under the Homeland Security Bill. What masquerades now as FEMA is a public relations smokescreen which disguises the fact that the government will no longer assist in major natural catastrophes. The "free market" approach to disaster requires that FEMA chieftains use their power and influence (...) -
Spineless, Tired and Uninspired. What Opposition Party?
2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Dave Lindorff
Iraq War going to hell, with U.S casualties approaching 2000 dead and 25,000 wounded, at a cost of $200 billion and rising.
Poverty in America on the rise in a period of supposed economic growth.
Republican Party a cesspool of corruption.
White House being investigated for outing undercover CIA agent.
Abortion rights under serious threat, with the Supreme Court being packed with right-wing judges.
New Orleans, just drying out from disastrous flood, being raped (...) -
Pat Robertson gets $11 million of prime American Bacon you bought
2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsOklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe snuck $10.8 million into the funding for a highway interchange sought by evangelist Pat Robertson near his Virginia headquarters.
"I love" Pat Robertson, Chris Casteel of the Daily Oklahoman quoted Inhofe.
But, the Oklahoma senator says, he earmarked the money for fellow Republican Senator John Warner whose office said they had requested only $5.8 million. Inhofe admits he tossed in the extra $5 million of pork into the new federal highway bill written in his (...) -
Republicans Lie and Lie - ’06 budget
2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
’06 budget remains a scandalous lie
Alan Guebert
Since early spring, Republican aggies in both the House and the Senate have warned their farm and ranch constituents that farm program spending will be cut $3 billion over five years beginning with the 2006 federal budget.
How did they arrive at that amount and timetable?
Simple. They pulled both figures out of thin air early in the 2006 budget process when party bosses designed, then pushed, a budget "reconciliation" bill through (...) -
Fixing roofs on Gulf Coast proves costly for taxpayers
1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By Aaron C. Davis, Jay Root and Seth Borenstein
NEW ORLEANS - Across the hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast, thousands upon thousands of blue tarps are being nailed to wind-damaged roofs, a visible sign of government assistance.
The blue sheeting - a godsend to residents whose homes are threatened by rain - is rapidly becoming the largest roofing project in the nation’s history.
It isn’t coming cheap.
Knight Ridder has found that a lack of oversight, generous contracting deals and poor (...) -
Rumsfeld Refuses To Pay Back Military Families For Lifesaving Body Armor
1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
16 commentsThe Traitor Defies Congress:
"How Many Of Those Killed Could Have Been Saved With The Proper Equipment?"
Families Still Forced To Buy Their Own Protection
"The administration is either showing complete incompetence or utter indifference," "Rumsfeld is violating the law," he said.
September 29, 2005 By Rick Maze, Army Times staff writer & The Associated Press.
Soldiers and their parents are still spending hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars for armor they say the (...)