More on Funding Priorities

From the AFL-CIO blog: Let's also use these numbers for the appropriations conflict. That'd make 82 more days in Iraq as costly as the difference between the President's budget requests and the Congressional proposal. The President's cuts would take away:
  • nearly 370,000 veterans' health care
  • 9,223 teaching jobs
  • 12,000 cops
See this breakdown by state for more of the impact of the President's cuts. And check the headlines for the impact of the President's decision to keep funding this war.
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