For the GOP, an Abyss Instead of Ideas

http://www.opednews.com/articles/For-the-GOP-an-Abyss-Inst-by-Richard--RJ-Esko-Abyss_Corporations_Ideology_Nietzsche-140118-99.html



For the GOP, an Abyss Instead of Ideas
OpEdNews Op Eds 1/18/2014 at 17:32:27
By Richard (RJ) Eskow

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* A billion-dollar cut to the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which isn't part of Obamacare, because the Republicans want to cut funds for Obamacare. (Either that, or they oppose the prevention of disease);

* A $10 million cut to the Independent Payment Advisory Board -- conveniently referred to by the GOP as a "death panel," because it does things like advise against paying a hospital $250 for the use of a light bulb. (Apparently they think these kinds of payment decisions should be made by for-profit insurance companies, as God intended);

* A third of a billion dollars cut from the Transportation Security Agency budget -- what the heck, it's only terrorism -- but a funding increase for private contractors (because nothing demonstrates the growth potential of the private sector more than showering it with public money);

* A quarter of a billion dollar reduction in the budget for embassy security (and here they've been complaining about Benghazi);