Wednesday, September 4, 2013

To Hell With The Little People; We've Got A War To Do, Dammit!

While our warmonger president and mostly spineless Congress go through the charade of a vote as they prepare to bomb Syria, here are a few sequester cuts to keep in mind. As usual, we don't have money for human needs, but we have money for war. After all, gotta keep the "defense" contractors happy!

$928 million cut from FEMA’s disaster relief money
$6 million cut from Emergency Food and Shelter
$70 million cut from the Agricultural Disaster Relief Fund at USDA
$61 million cut from the Hazardous Substance Superfund at EPA
$125 million cut from the Wild land Fire Management
$53 million cut from Salaries and Expenses at the Food Safety and Inspection Service
633 million cut from the Department of Education’s Special Education programs
$184 million cut from Rehabilitation Services and Disability Research
$71 million cut from administration at the Office of Federal Student Aid
$116 million cut from Higher Education
$86 million cut from Student Financial Assistance
$79 million cut from Embassy Security, Construction, and Maintenance $604 million cut from National Nuclear Security Administration
$232 million cut from the Federal Aviation Administration
$394 million cut from Defense Environmental Cleanup  
(H/T to Marilyn for pointing me to this list)