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Political Factoid
2011 Republican tax-cut* sampler:
- $126 million reduced preparation for natural disasters such as tsunamis, hurricanes, blizzards, floods and fires.
- $120.2 million reduction of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
- $510 million cancelled grants for firefighters (who provide first response in emergencies).
- $70 million cut from facilitating "reliable and interoperable" communications to help with "counterterrorism, counterintelligence, law enforcement and emergency response."
- $56.8 billion cut to Commodity Futures Trading Commission in preventing a repeat of the financial disaster.
- $2.1 million cut from preventing the suckering of people into predatory loans.
- $70 million stripped from critical assistance for women in domestic abuse, custody, eviction and foreclosure cases.
- $110 million in community grants for teen pregnancy prevention eliminated.
- $300 million killing a program that offers education and training for low-income Americans 16 and above so they can better find a job.
- $783.5 million from USAID's Child Survival and Health Grants Program seeking to mitigate life-endangering poverty in some of the world's most underdeveloped regions.
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"America is broke and simply cannot afford to pay for insurance, prevention, and emergency aid."
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