Farmers, Veterans, Elderly Vote for, Get Screwed by Bush

This article just about sums up the fact that it the same demographics that voted Bush back into office that are the ones that are going to get hit the hardest with by his economic policies. From The Capital Times in Madison:

. . . It's our farmers, our veterans, our frail elderly who are going to pay for George Bush's tax cuts for the rich and for the ill-conceived, incredibly expensive war, which have combined to throw our nation into such debt that other nations are starting to worry about our economic health.

Surely, this president can't be serious about forcing America's veterans - more than 14,000 of them with serious injuries suffered in his war with Iraq - to pay a bigger share of their prescription drugs, plus charge them an up-front $250 fee to be treated in the veterans' health care system.

But, yes, there it is in the budget he sent to Congress Monday: a budget that cuts Medicaid help to the states, eliminates most of the farm subsidies enacted only a few years ago, and shifts yet more costs onto the financially strapped states.