President George W. Bush's proposed budget for fiscal 2007, which begins this October, includes a Commerce Department plan to eliminate the Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
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Defenders of the survey countered in their letter that the cost was justified as SIPP provides a constant stream of in-depth data that enables government, academic, and independent researchers to evaluate the effectiveness and improve the efficiency of several hundred billion dollars in spending on social programs.
For example, Boushey said, the survey revealed that school lunch programs were missing many children whose parents were unemployed for a couple of months or longer, pointing the way to improvements in those programs.
But Bush is happy to fund greedy Oil-wars to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars and more than a hundred thousand Americans and Iraqi's dead, while giving exuberant tax-breaks to the wealthy and giving massive kickbacks--in the form of subsidies, no-bid contracts (esp. petroleum and weapons), and tax-breaks--to mega-corporations which return even greater percentages of the nation's wealth to the ruling investor class in the form of higher dividends.
If he killed off all poor Americans, would he and the rest of the wealthy elite have to wash the clothes, mop the floors, clean the toilets, stock the shelves, and so on? No! He doesn't even care, because, as he himself has said, there is a pool of millions of people worldwide who will gladly fill the empty position in the matrix and labor with their own sweat and blood until they themselves drop dead and yet others gladly step up for a turn. It's a race to the bottom. Bush's labor market is but a meat grinder, the American laborer but mere meat!
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