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While We're Cutting Education Funding, Let's Throw This on the Pile
Hey, we gotta find enough cash to increase defense spending and give tax breaks to the top 1%.
President Trump's 2018 budget request to Congress seeks massive cuts in spending on health programs, including medical research, disease prevention programs and health insurance for children of the working poor.
The National Cancer Institute would be hit with a $1 billion cut compared to its 2017 budget. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute would see a $575 million cut, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases would see a reduction of $838 million. The administration would cut the overall National Institutes of Health budget from $31.8 billion to $26 billion.
The proposed cuts to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drew an unusually sharp rebuke from former CDC director Tom Frieden, who went on Twitter to describe the administration's CDC request as "unsafe at any level of enactment. Would increase illness, death, risks to Americans, and health care costs."
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Re: While We're Cutting Education Funding, Let's Throw This on the Pile
This is "what the American people want"?
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Making America Sick Again ! 
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This is "what the American people want"?
It's a race to the bottom, rongone, and join the dozens of third world countries that sadly already inhabit our planet.
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
H. L. Mencken
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We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Talk about shifting money and support from one group to another.
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Re: While We're Cutting Education Funding, Let's Throw This on the Pile
This budget will never ever see the light of day in practice.
But it does tell what is in the Trump Adminstration's heart.
I think you're going to see a lot of different United States of America over the next three, four, or eight years. - President Donald J. Trump
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.....it does tell what is in the Trump Administration's heart.
Perhaps, but I'm not sure he has one.
I notice his proposal is entitled, "A New Foundation for American Greatness."
But, maybe there's a positive side to all of this. I believe more and more people are slowly coming around to understand what real authoritarian leadership would look like if we keep going down 'Trump Highway'.
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