Organic Mutant

So we have $ 87 billion to give to Iraq as a grant, but the fuck-tards in congress were talking about doing what?

“Fresh out of subcommittee, a new congressional transportation appropriations bill will entirely eliminate some $600 million worth of annual federal funding for bike paths, walkways and other such transportation niceties in fiscal year 2004.”

“Under the new bill, which the full Committee on Appropriations is likely to consider this week, before it goes to the House floor for a vote, highways would receive $34.1 billion in fiscal year 2004, which is $2.5 billion more than this year, while the Transportation Enhancements program that funds bike paths and walkways would get nothing. The bill would also significantly reduce funding for everything from Amtrak to reverse-commute transportation programs that connect low-income urban workers to jobs in the suburbs.”

Defenders of the bill argue that, in light of huge federal deficits, something has to go, but for bike activists and environmentalists who have been pushing for decades for alternatives to driving, the cuts are a giant step backward.

I feel real sad for this country. When you try to talk about creating medical coverage for everyone, they talk about socialised medicine, but when they talk about about government contracts, heaven forbid you call it socialised business or corporate welfare. That’s when they want to rip out your throat because YOU ARE WRONG! or try to tell you that they know better cos their more mature and they have (pause) experience. FUQ!!