Omnibus Appropriation Bill

[Akno21]

Section 2

§1 The Education and Care for Children in Poverty Act is hereby repealed.

§2 The following programs are canceled:
--International development aid and financial programs;
--Agricultural research and services;
--Other advancement of commerce;
--Community development;
--Area and regional development;
--Higher education;
--Research and general education aids;
--Rehabilitation services of the Department of Education;
--Other social and family services of the Department of Education;
--Indian health;
--Substance abuse and mental health services;
--Consumer and occupational health and safety;
--Other health care services;
--Medicare modernization (proposed);
--Supplemental security income (SSI);
--Family support payments;
--Low income home energy assistance;
--Other family and child support.

You better make sure you never walk unprotected in areas that are full of people who use these, Bono, they may be a bit angry.

[Akno21]

As this seems to contain the same as the Federal Budget effectively, I shall quote my statement on that and say that I hope for a resounding Nay in the Senate.

I oppose this proposed budget. I will lay out the major grounds on which I disagree with this budget, there are a few of these and look at a few of the more minor reasons.

Firstly, I oppose the removal of all international aid as I think as the most developed nation of the world we should attempt to spread the wealth around a little more and attempt to reduce poverty in the developing world. By abolishing all international development aid we condemn the poorer nations of the world to a future of abject poverty which they are unable to escape.

Secondly I oppose the idea of scrapping regional and community aid as this merely has the same effect as the first of my objections except within Atlasia. Such proposals lead to huge inconsistencies in wealth which I cannot support.

Thirdly I oppose the education cuts, whilst I do not support huge education hikes, I do not support suge huge reductions as I see these as being totally detrimental to the future of Atlasia with children not in a stable learning condition.

Fourthly I oppose cuts in social welfare programmes that are so high, whilst some programmes need to be cut and unemployment benefits should be returned to being more of a safety net than a way of life, I see these cuts as far too great to be acceptable. I also oppose cuts in medical spending.

To me this budget would be greatly detrimental to Atlasian society and I cannot support that.

Gives JFK a standing ovation.

Once Gabu gets sworn in, D5 will certainly have the best Senators, now that I think about it.

[Akno21]

Section 1

Money shall be appropriated from the treasury as follows:

Iraq War ($45 billion: cut $4.99 billion)

$45 billion ........ Iraq War
    Cut $4.99 bil. from base of $50.0 bil.(-10%)

I am against any reduction in spending on the Iraq War. The election is coming in a month and a half and according to all sources this is the time when we need more money put to the Iraq rebuilding funds. It would be silly to think that at the time we need the highest amount of readiness in Iraq that we are reducing the Iraq War funds by 5 billion dollars.

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I do not think that we should cut foreign aid. Many countries currently depend on the funds that we give to developing nations. We must not cut off this life line at one time. If we want to ween developing nations off of aid money than we should do it slowly and keep a close eye on the developments in these countries.

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I do not think that Community development should be scrapped all at once. This should be taken in small steps so that communities are gradually weened off of government aid.

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Again these cuts would do more harm than good. Just having the money tap stop flowing all at once would lead to more trouble than good.

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Again cut in gradual steps if you are going to cut. Many of those Mental Health and Substance abuse services are state/government owned hospitals that deal with junkies and people who are determined by the court to be mentally insane. We need them or else their would be no place for the court to seen people for drug treatment or mental help.

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Okay medicare modernization is needed. The current system is failing and these extra funds will help, hopefully to rectify the problem.

All in all I do not support this proposed appropriations bill. While I like what Bono is trying to do reducing government size has to be done gradually not in the giant leaps that he has suggested. I have already said what I do not like about the Iraq War funding that needs to be kept at current levels or even increased as we come up to the very important elections their at the end of January.

I'm not sure you realize, but even with these 'giant leaps' as you descrive them, we are still more than 200 Billion Dolars short of a surplus. YOu want to do this gradualyl, what is the objective, surplus in 2050? No, we are allready drowned in debt. If we do not take imediate action, it will only grow. Also, on a side note, community development is the codename for pork projects...

Eliminating the Bush tax cuts for those making over $350,000 would put a serious dent in the deficit. Reverting to Clinton levels would do it ven better.

[Akno21]

Section 1

Money shall be appropriated from the treasury as follows:

Iraq War ($45 billion: cut $4.99 billion)

$45 billion ........ Iraq War
    Cut $4.99 bil. from base of $50.0 bil.(-10%)

I am against any reduction in spending on the Iraq War. The election is coming in a month and a half and according to all sources this is the time when we need more money put to the Iraq rebuilding funds. It would be silly to think that at the time we need the highest amount of readiness in Iraq that we are reducing the Iraq War funds by 5 billion dollars.

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I do not think that we should cut foreign aid. Many countries currently depend on the funds that we give to developing nations. We must not cut off this life line at one time. If we want to ween developing nations off of aid money than we should do it slowly and keep a close eye on the developments in these countries.

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I do not think that Community development should be scrapped all at once. This should be taken in small steps so that communities are gradually weened off of government aid.

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Again these cuts would do more harm than good. Just having the money tap stop flowing all at once would lead to more trouble than good.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Again cut in gradual steps if you are going to cut. Many of those Mental Health and Substance abuse services are state/government owned hospitals that deal with junkies and people who are determined by the court to be mentally insane. We need them or else their would be no place for the court to seen people for drug treatment or mental help.

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Okay medicare modernization is needed. The current system is failing and these extra funds will help, hopefully to rectify the problem.

All in all I do not support this proposed appropriations bill. While I like what Bono is trying to do reducing government size has to be done gradually not in the giant leaps that he has suggested. I have already said what I do not like about the Iraq War funding that needs to be kept at current levels or even increased as we come up to the very important elections their at the end of January.

I'm not sure you realize, but even with these 'giant leaps' as you descrive them, we are still more than 200 Billion Dolars short of a surplus. YOu want to do this gradualyl, what is the objective, surplus in 2050? No, we are allready drowned in debt. If we do not take imediate action, it will only grow. Also, on a side note, community development is the codename for pork projects...

Eliminating the Bush tax cuts for those making over $350,000 would put a serious dent in the deficit. Reverting to Clinton levels would do it ven better.

So, it's better to take money away from people than having some responsability? if we were running a company, we would have been thrown out by the shareholders ages ago,.

The shareholders are the voters and they can vote you out if they don't like you and your policies.