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From Suburban Guerrilla..........a NYT editorial explains some drastic antipoverty cuts being made to Medicaid and food stamps ( ya know, the stuff that keeps us alive).

President Bush’s vow to speed welfare assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina overlooks the gruesome determination of many Republican Congressional leaders to make $13 billion in cuts for Medicaid and food stamps. They quietly plan this even as they throw short-term emergency money at the crisis.

Sustaining their health and income is vital to the storm’s impoverished survivors now and well into the future. But the most basic cuts in antipoverty programs are planned for enactment later this month by the same Republican majorities that approved the president’s upper-bracket tax cuts and created deficits for a generation to come.

Congress’s budget hawks are clearly hoping that the cacophony of sympathetic speechifying about the storm victims will distract the public from these cuts and from the fact that they will land heavily on the three states most devastated by the hurricane, where roughly one out of three children were already dependent on Medicaid.

I can't imagine having the $67 dollars food stamps I get each month being slashed. I already need to go to a food bank to keep from starving, and I've given up on the three meals a day diet.....Bush doesn't like black people or alter-abled people, and if you're black and disabled...forget about it.