Unpopular At Home, Unpopular Abroad

10:11 am EST November 5th, 2005 | Politics | 1 Comment

At least the Bush presidency is consistent

President Bush’s troubles trailed him to an international summit meeting here on Friday as anti-Bush protesters turned violent just blocks from the gathering site, and Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s fiery populist leader, rallied a soccer stadium filled with at least 25,000 people against the United States.

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One Response to “Unpopular At Home, Unpopular Abroad”

  1. Semanticleo says:
    November 5, 2005 at 10:11 am

    Bush may be somewhat neutered by troubles of late, but the dogs he has let slip continue to attack the weakest among us.

    From Washington Post;

    The food stamp cuts in the House measure would knock nearly 300,000 people off nutritional assistance programs, including 70,000 legal immigrants, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. [...]

    About 40,000 children would lose eligibility for free or reduced-price school lunches, the CBO estimated. [...]

    A separate House measure would scale back federal administrative aid to state child-support enforcement programs, saving the federal government nearly $5 billion over five years but potentially cutting child-support collections even more. [...]

    Still another House provision would roll back a court-ordered expansion of foster care support, denying foster care payments to relatives who take in children removed from their parents’ homes by court order. That provision would reduce the coverage of foster care payments to about 4,000 children a month and cut $397 million from the program through 2010, the CBO said. [...]

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110203007.html