NPP In Action
"National Priorities Project has long been a vital resource for advocacy and organizing by our members. In August 2007, on the eve of key congressional votes on the Iraq war, nearly 5,000 MoveOn members participated in over 160 events around the country highlighting the war’s true cost to local communities. We relied on National Priorities Project’s data to produce customized local reports on “the war at home”—and without NPP, we couldn’t have done it. We thank NPP for the service they provide day in and day out to their partners in the progressive movement."
- Justin Ruben, Executive Director
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Federal Budget Year in Review 2007Congress and the administration failed to agree on budget priorities this year. While the President announced an escalation of the Iraq War and requested nearly $200 billion for war funding in fiscal year 2008 alone, Congress tried repeatedly to expand health care for children. By December, only one of the 12 appropriation bills requiring approval, the defense bill, passed Congress without being vetoed by the President. Congress wrapped up the budget process with an omnibus spending bill which combined all other bills into one. It included numerous cuts to domestic spending programs, and included another $70 billion in unrestricted war spending.
1Does not include homeland security which had a proposed increase. The comparison was to spending levels in FY2006 since the FY2007 budget was not yet completed at the time of the administration’s budget proposal for FY2008. 2J. Horney and M. Coven, ‘Labor/HHS/Education Bill – what’s at stake: the President’s budget would weaken education, medical research, and other critical needs,’ Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, November 16, 2007. 3Coalition on Human Needs, ‘Statement on the President’s veto of appropriations for Labor, Health and Human Services and Education must be overriden’ November 14, 2007. 4Coalition on Human Needs, ’Congress passes omnibus appropriations bill,’ CHN Human Needs Report, December 21, 2007.
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I will never put party
I will never put party politics above the country. Neither should you. I'm not interested in winning another race for the party, while selling out the country. Read up on the Project for the New American Century. Read the letters. The men and women listed below are the architects of foreign policy since 2001. They are not of Ronald Reagen or Barry Goldwater. These men only care about empire. Talk to me after you've read these letters.Tell me what you think, as always. We are going down a dangerous path.
What else will we do to check China and keep oil from her?
http://www.newamericancentury.org/lettersstatements.htm
Letters to Bush
http://www.newamericancentury.org/Bushletter.htm
http://www.newamericancentury.org/Bushletter-040302.htm
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraq-20030319.htm
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraq-20030328.htm
Letters to Clinton
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqletter1998.htm
William Kristol Elliot Abrams Gordon Adams Richard V. Allen
Richard Armitage Ronald Asmus Gary Bauer Jeffrey Bell William J. Bennett Jeffrey Bergner Max Boot John Bolton
Rudy Boshwitz Jeb Bush Frank Carlucci Richard (Dick) Cheney Eliot Cohen Seth Cropsey Ivo H. Daalder Midge Decter James Dobbins Paula Dobriansky Thomas Donnelly Nicholas Eberstadt Hillel Fradkin Aaron Friedberg Lee Feinstein Steve Forbes Francis Fukuyama Peter Galbraith Frank Gaffney Jeffrey Gedmin Robert S. Gelbard Reuel Marc Gerecht Philip Gordon Charles Hill Fred C. Ikle Martin S. Indyk Bruce P. Jackson Eli S. Jacobs Michael Joyce Donald Kagan Robert Kagan Zalmay Khalizad Jeane Kirkpatrick Craig Kennedy Charles Krauthammer James Lindsay John Lehman I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby Tod Lindberg Rich Lowry Christopher Makins Will Marshall Clifford May Joshua Muravchik
Michael O'Hanlon Daniel Pipes Martin Peretz Richard Perle Danielle Pletka Norman Podhoretz Dan Quayle Peter W. Rodman Stephen P. Rosen Dennis Ross Henry S. Rowen Donald Rumsfeld Randy Scheunemann Gary Schmitt William Schneider, Jr. Richard H. Shultz
Walter Slocombe Henry Sokolski Helmut Sonnenfeldt Stephen J. Solarz
James B. Steinberg Vin Weber George Weigel Leon Wieseltier Marshall Wittmann Paul wolfowitz R. James Woolsey Robert b. Zoellick
Veterans have lost right to walk in VA clinincs
As of a few weeks ago, the Lubbock Texas, VA outpatient clinic, has started denying Service Connected and Non Service Connected, Combat and Non Combat Disabled Veterans, walk in care.
They are now turning Veterans away, and in many cases, refusing to make appointments for the future.
This is as a result of the trickle down affect, of this administration, backing up their money dump truck to every department in DOD, and other Government agencies, and raiding cash flows, to pay for the war in Iraq, while being able to save face by not asking for more money for the war, in the budget.
The Problem
Why is it that corporate income taxes have fallen from almost 40% of the total budget to just under 11% in a little over sixty years?
In fact, why is it that we are subsidizing some of our largest companies? Get rid of the oil subsidies!
Budget
Isn't this sad? The President vetoes the bill for the children’s health care expansion. But the request for the tax cuts for the wealthiest five percent receiving $92 billion in tax cuts gets approved. Where are our priorities? The wealthy that don't have to worry about health care or the children of the middle class and the poor?
WOW
Well, at least it seems there are only a few inbreeds left that actually think the war is a good thing and that th troops should stay in a useless, winless situation in order for Haliburton and Exxon to make more money.
I suppose you should have
I suppose you should have warned me that posts would be moderated. Oh well.
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Health care is not a
Health care is not a constitutional duty of our federal government, and should not be done. Socialize health care has failed in every single country it is tried, and will do so here as well. Look at the problems of the VA Hospitals, Medicare and Medicaid. Further, military and defense *IS* a duty given to the federal government by our constitution.
Health care
Health care is provided under very successful government programs in France, Canada and the United Kingdom among other countries. An Iraqi veteran who spoke at our church told us that while the military hospitals are problematic, the VA Hospitals are well managed, provide good quality care and deserve better funding. He urged those on both sides of the war issue to work for continued and improved funding of the VA. My understanding is that overall people are quite happy with Medicare as a program, the problem is the reimbursements are not always adjusted for inflation and for that reason, some doctors are less willing to participate. That would be an easy problem to solve it seems to me.
Keep beating your war drums.
Keep beating your war drums. I wonder how many of your family members did their "duty" and enlisted to go and fight for "this" country. You are spineless, and anyone who thinks that this war is a good thing should sign up immediately. I have sacraficed one husband and one son, 3 cousins, 2 aunts and 4 nieces. So wave your flag and go and fight. My only hope is that they will have to bring back the draft soon to bring out of hiding all of the idiots that want this war. Just think of the silence of the war bangers who have to give up their sons and daughters for a useless war.
Keep beating your war drums
I understand your frustrations with the war, believe me I have some of my own as I have to lost loved ones in this war as well as others. However, I do not believe that the people that are on this page forced either one of our loved ones to sign up for the military and go to war. I appreciate everyday the sacrifice that all of our soilders make for us, and I also know first hand the sacrifice that the families back here make as well. Do I think we should be in war for oil, no I do not but support our troops and the families that love them and do not wish for your fellow americans to get drafted and sent to a "useless" war.
our money should be used for
our money should be used for us the citizens who need health care not for some other country. the gov't should realize that our country needs to be assisted first in order to be able to assist others.
troops
can you bring them home
troops
i like the troops to be there so they can help!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Bush is just asking for so
Bush is just asking for so much money for a war in a country that is not our own and won't even pass bills for money for health care and education in our own country.
copy editing needed
might want to reword:
"S-CHIP, a children’s health care program which provides health care to children."
I love that you guys provide this kind of analysis!!
copy editing done
A belated thank you!
bring the troops
bring the troops home!!!!!!!!!