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Political Factoid
2012 GOP Presidential candidate
Mitt Romney's budget intentions:
- Reduce the Federal workforce
by 10 percent via attrition
- Privatize Amtrak*
- Reduce Foreign aid
- Eliminate Title X Family
Planning funding
- Increase budget for Defense
Department (and big defense contractors)
- General cuts to:
- Education
- Transportation
- Food inspection
- FBI
- Homeland Security
- Grants to local Governments
- National Parks
- Crop subsidies
- Health research
- NASA
- Medicaid
- Housing and heating subsidies
for the poor
- Food stamps and school lunches
- Supplemental security income for
very poor seniors and disabled people
- Unemployment insurance
- Veteran's pensions
- Refundable tax credits to the
working poor
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