GOP eff's the poor to spare the base

Senior GOP senators and reps have apparently realized that cutting the legs out from under their base, i.e. Red States, is probably a bad idea. So instead, they're going to fuck the poor and cut THEIR programs instead.


Move afoot to cut food programs for poor
Offered as alternative to Bush plan to reduce farm subsidies
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:08 p.m. ET March 11, 2005

WASHINGTON - Cuts in food programs for the poor are getting support in Congress as an alternative to President Bush’s idea of slicing billions of dollars from the payments that go to large farm operations.

Senior Republicans in both the House and Senate are open to small reductions in farm subsidies, but they adamantly oppose the deep cuts sought by Bush to hold down future federal deficits.

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