The Republicans have put together some spending cuts that they would like to see occur and will most likely talk about after the State of the Union speech tonight. One of the items they would like to cut is funding for PBS. Apparently Exxon Mobil paying no taxes while receiving billions in government subsidies is OK but educating our children just too expensive.
But these are tough times you say. We can't afford to keep spending money we don't have. The largest item in US government budget is defense and Republicans want to reduce that by 0.00%. That's right, they are willing to pull funding for the Energy Star program to save what would be a cut of 0.00078 of 1 percent of the Military budget. So rather than cutting less than 1/1000 of the Military budget, Republicans want to go after a program designed to make the US more energy independent while reducing CO2 in the air.
In the end these are not good policies for cutting the deficit because they money they are talking about is too small and the programs they are willing to cut almost exclusively hurt the poor.
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