Willie Style

(reprinted from a DNC email today but edited by me)
Texas residents are facing severe cuts if George Bush's new budget becomes law. Here are just a few of the cuts Texas faces under Bush's 2006 budget (hereafter referred to as Dubya):

Homeland Security
-The Dubya 2006 budget cuts $420 million to state and local funding for homeland security, including a $55.7 million cut for Texas. These cuts will take police and firefighters off your streets.
-The Dubya budget cuts the COPS program, which has put 6,124 officers on Texas streets, by 96 percent.
Health Care
-The Dubya budget cuts $45 billion from Medicaid, enough to provide health care to 1.8 million children. Texas's share of these cuts is $2.7 billion.
-Dubya's budget cuts the very same community and rural health care programs he touted during the campaign, even though more than 626,000 Texas residents have lost their health care coverage since Dubya took office due to his failures.
Education
-Dubya underfunds his own No Child Left Behind Act by $13.1 billion in his budget. In Texas, that means a shortfall of $1.1 billion, leaving behind 272,271 Texas children.
-Dubya promised to fund Pell Grants in his State of the Union address, but his budget is $6.6 billion short. That's $516.7 million less than what's needed in Texas, a real burden for the 355,653 students in Texas who receive the grants.
Other Priorities
-The Dubya budget would require many veterans to pay a new $250 annual "user fee" to use the Veterans Administration health care system, and would double the prescription drug co-payment for the 1,754,809 Texas veterans.
-Dubya cuts Texas clean water programs by $17.7 million.
-Dubya's 2006 budget also cuts the Low Income Heating Energy Assistance Program -- which helps low-income families afford heating fuel in the winter -- by $234.4 million, including $5.2 million cut for Texas residents.

Again, where is the outrage? I looked on OpenSecrets.org this morning for unrelated reasons and then looked up people in various ZIP codes to see who contributed what and to whom. Surely all these old grayhairs that contribute dollars to Dubya would like to know about all these. "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the RNC" I can hear them saying.