Originally Posted by Bill8

Everything that is being cut is being cut to further the republican political agenda.

Both sides are afraid to cut anything real.

I think the dems should let the republicans cut - this will make the people hurt by the cuts fight all the harder in the future, polarize the middle, and bring the inevitable civil war closer.

Since none of these cuts will affect employment or the economy, or actually significantly affect the overall budget or the size of government, they will soon be seen as the political payoff to the religious and racist base of the republicans that they are, and backfire on the republicans.

I especially like the cuts to planned parenthood - women should be nicely polarized by that. And teh EPA cuts - people will be able to see for themselves what the republican agenda is, as those cuts move thru the system at the same time that the evidence for global warming gets stronger and stronger.