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Political Factoid
The three-jerk, knee-jerk wish list:
- Make permanent the tax cuts for the rich.
- Repeal health care.*
- Restore pre-existing conditions.
- Limit children being covered by parents health insurance after age 18.
- Repeal tax cuts for small businesses that helped pay for employee health care coverage.
- Repeal tax cuts for health insurance.
- Eliminate Medicaid for individuals under age 65.
- Eliminate Federal funded health care for children.*
- Increase prescription drug cost for medicare recipients by 50%.*
- Eliminate all funding for Americans living with paralysis.*
- Reduce mental health coverage for Veterans.*
- Repeal disclosure requirements on health insurance plans.
- Abolish Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.*
- Repeal Credit Card Bill of Rights.
- Eliminate requirement that lenders to verify applicants' credit history, income, and employment status.
- Reinstate subsidies to private lender middlemen of student loans.
- Repeal law allowing shareholders of publicly traded companies to vote on executive pay.
- Repeal law prohibiting banks from engaging in proprietary trading.
- Eliminate authority of FDA to regulate the manufacturing, marketing, and sale of tobacco.*
- Repeal Fair Pay Act protecting against pay discrimination for women and other workers.*
- Disallow the public to report fraud, waste, or abuse.
- Eliminate Chief Technology Officer and staff.*
- Disable recovery.gov website and the tracking of spending from the Recovery Act.*
- Eliminate un-needed spending.*
- Eliminate Pell grants which help low-income students pay for college.*
- Eliminate pre-school for the poor.*
- Eliminate funding for Individuals With Disabilities Education Act.*
- Eliminate benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.*
- Eliminate serve.gov website and database as needless expense.*
- Stop paying travel expenses for families of fallen soldiers to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover AFB.*
- Reduce Department of Veterans Affairs budget by $2 Billion.*
- Eliminate federal funding for nondefense scientific research and development.*
- Terminate federal funding of private sector spaceflight programs.*
- Delete funding for Violence Against Women Act.*
- Decrease funding of national parks and forests by 20%.*
- Restore the Bush legacy.
- Maintain the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
- Reinstate CIA program of 'enhanced interrogation methods.'
- Reinstate Bush era restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.*
- Reinstate the barring of media coverage during the return of fallen soldiers to Dover Air Force Base.
- Reinstate 'global gag rule' and disallow US aid to go to organizations if they provide abortions.*
(and still more)
* By defunding if nothing else
Inspired by Mitch, John, and Eric
(and others)
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