Lynn C. Woolsey: “the Republicans' misplaced budget priorities are actually shameful. They continue to be a reverse Robin Hood, slashing…”

“the Republicans' misplaced budget priorities are actually shameful. They continue to be a reverse Robin Hood, slashing funds to safety net programs only to give more tax cuts to the wealthiest of Americans. The budget reconciliation that we will talk about next week or the next week, whenever you guys can get your stuff together, proposes huge cuts in important programs that the poor and the working poor depend on day in and day out, such as $15 billion in cuts in Medicaid programs; $12.5 billion for student loans; and almost $1 billion in cuts for food stamps. All of this while, and you would allow the richer to get even richer at the expense of helping those who need it the most, doing nothing to offset Katrina expenses or to reduce our Nation's deficit. Using Hurricane Katrina as an excuse to extend tax cuts, while taking from the programs that the victims of the hurricane need most, is an embarrassment. I hope you will fix it. ____________________”