[lbo-talk] re: neocon economists

[Marta Russell]

>
>Well the connection is that sooner or later after the imperial war
>fires dim these same elitist policy jerks are going to turn their
>attention back to the economic domestic front and start bombing the
>social welfare rubble.
>

There is already a cluster of bombs in the budget.
Mostly the target is poor people's programs, not Medicare.  Its cuts 
to Medicaid, SSI, food stamps, Veterans services, to name the ones 
that come to mind. That is how it always starts -- don't hit the AARP 
until the poor are reamed.
Last I checked the congress passed a resolution to dump the $94 
billion cut to Medicaid BUT it looks like the deal was to block grant 
Medicaid (much like Gingrich tried to do) which will have the same 
effect because Medicaid would be capped.
Marta

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