WAKE THE FUCK UP AMERICA!!!!!

As the Obama administration gets ready to unveil its budget on Monday, it appears that the president – like Republicans – will be calling for cuts to programs that are popular.

According to supporters of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), President Obama will propose cutting in half the budget for the program, which helps people pay their heating and cooling bills. This calendar year, some 8.9 million people are expected to ask for help with their utility bills, at a cost of $5.1 billion.

Funding for LIHEAP is not likely to be the only discretionary spending pared by the administration. There are also reports that the Obama administration will propose sharp budgets cuts in community-action programs, which fund such things such as Head Start, as well as community block grants, which are federal monies that can be used for almost anything a locality needs...

“People will be horrified at the scale of the cuts the House is considering, if they are implemented,” says Elizabeth Lower-Basch, senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy, a Washington group that works to help the poor. “What we are hearing is that the cuts will be for the most vulnerable.” http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0210/Among-O... 

At the same time we hear of these cuts w see AIG is gtting another $2 BILLION bailout.

What will it take for Americans to take to the streets in an Egyptian -like protest? 

We've watched our politicians hand the country over to their corporate masters for thirty years, even at the expense of the planet itself.

Following the lead of our party, Democrats rolled over when the Supreme Court installed W in the White House - and when the same body made the corporate take-over official with its Citizens United decision, the nation snoozed.

Now both parties seem ready to feign balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and middle class while the torturers hawk books, the banksters continue the habits that brought our economy down, and the military industrial complex insures that more and more people "hate us for our freedoms."

Really, wtf will it take?

I no longer believe that the change we need will come through the Democratic party since they seem to be republicans of a different name - but if the country ever wakes up enough to take to the streets, I'm in.
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