"Operation Offset"

Under the guise of re-building after Hurricanes Katrina & Rita, Republicans in Congress proposed their newest funding cuts titled, "Operation Offset." This profoundly insane budgetary move calls for $949 billion dollars in cuts over 10 years. Let this be a lesson kids: this is what happens when your government goes to war without a reason and spends more time, resources, and money than your country can afford. Some of the proposed funding cuts include: $225 billion cut from Medicaid, the last-resort health insurance program for the very poor $200 billion cut from Medicare, the health care safety net for the elderly and the disabled $6.7 billion cut from school lunches for poor children $7.5 billion cut from programs to fight global AIDS $5.5 billion to eliminate all funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting $3.6 billion cut to eliminate the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities $8.5 billion cut to eliminate all subsidized loans to graduate students (It just got personal.) $417 million cut to eliminate the Minority Business Development Agency $4.8 billion cut to eliminate all funding for the Safe and Drug-Free schools program Yes, they've officially gone apeshit. Take action and sign the petition or better yet, tell your Congressional representatives that they're crazy, but not in the way you like.