More on Funding Priorities
by Matt Lewis, 9/25/2007
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
