Janice Schakowsky: “in his speech to the Nation on Monday, the President said, ``War has no certainty but the certainty of sacrifice.'' Many…”

“in his speech to the Nation on Monday, the President said, ``War has no certainty but the certainty of sacrifice.'' Many in our country are sacrificing. That list begins with the hundreds of thousands of brave young men and women who as we speak are putting their very lives on the line in Iraq out of a sense of duty to their country. But there is one small group of Americans who are not only not being asked to sacrifice, but get huge new benefits in the Republican budget. That would be the millionaires, the richest of the rich, who get most of the $1.4 trillion tax cut in this Republican budget. Warren Buffett, who opposes tax cuts, would get $300 million just from elimination of the stock dividend taxes. Sacrifice, it seems, is only for the little people. The children sacrifice. Head Start is cut. Health insurance, college loans, school lunch programs are cut. Veterans are asked to sacrifice, again. Veterans disability, education and health care benefits, cut. Seniors, cuts in Medicaid for nursing home care, and forget a meaningful prescription drug benefit under Medicare. Not enough money in the Republican budget. {time} 2045 Homeland Security, for crying out loud, a pathetic .8 percent increase, even more when we are at orange alert and even though only when 2 percent of containers are inspected at ports. The country is hurting from a struggling economy and war, but this Republican budget shamefully pours salt in the wound.”