Were there budget cuts? \nIs there any official documentation relating to this topic?
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Contact the school district and ask them. Chances are, it's a result of the budget cuts. This happened in Santa Barbara County, too. They cut the number of clases available, cut all enrichment classes and only allowed kids who were behind to attend summer school. I'm sure it's happened across the country. Schools are really hurting right now.\n\nOther signs of budget cuts: \nTaking out every other light in the classroom.\nNot enough text books for every kid.\nExtra-curricular activities cut.\nFewer non-required classes.\nCuts or elimination of music, drama, art, journalism programs. \nReduction or elimination of field trips.\nCuts in teacher supply budget.\nLarger class size.\n\nThe only thing that hasn't been cut are the salaries of the administrators. Check it out. Your superintendent of the school system probably has a larger salary than the governor's (not counting Arnold's other income, of course, but just his governor's salary.)\n\nThank you George Dubya.
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Congressman Tancredo is going to hold hearings on this, so I assume we will all hear more about it.  I think it is disturbing it was kept so secret here.  Apparently in Canada it isn't a secret at all.  They post the working group identities on their governmental web page.
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Unfortunately no. At least not yet. I've heard talk about the possibility in Massachusetts within the next year or two but currently there are none listed.
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If they cut funds, expect a body count double the current.  We are barely accomplishing mission with what we have there now.  Cut funding and the Democrats will have killed many Soldiers.  \n\nI pray it does not happen.  If it does, the Dems are going to have blood on their hands...the'll prob blame it on Bush though...
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They did C.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Ordinance\n\nA was a failure, which is why the Articles failed.\nB, I'm not sure, but I really doubt it.  The economy was a complete mess.
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Earnings growth is declining, except that is, for the city bankers who are expecting bonus growth this year of 25%.\n\nThe influx of migrants from the Eastern European states is having it"s effect. They are prepared to work for a lower wage and this has a "knock on" effect. They are also prepared to sleep 3/4 to a room in cheap bed & breakfasts.\n\nInflation is at 2.5%, which is 0.5% above the target, so gordon will try to keep wage demands as low as possible.\n\nIt would be nice if, Gas - Electricity - Council Tax,etc. only increased by 2.5%, but no, these charges have gone through the roof.\n\nI read a report about a month ago, that Gas was so plentyful, that the importers were "paying" the distributors to take it off their hands. Did prices come down? Not on your life.\n\nAnyway, back to the subject, I think we should do as other countries are doing, and restrict the number of immigrant to fill only the jobs that are vacant.\n\nYou won"t get a job in America unless it can"t be filled by an American citizen. We should have a similar scheme.\n\nPut the onnus on employers to "prove" that they have tried everything possible to fill the vacancy using the indiginous population.\n\nWages going down, bills going up, more and more people getting into debt. It"s all going to explode soon.
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By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer 5 minutes ago \nWASHINGTON - \nPersonal data, including\nSocial Security numbers of 26.5 million U.S. veterans was stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee this month after he took the information home without authorization, the department said Monday. \nLast year, more than 260,000 veterans could not sign up for services because of cost-cutting. Audits also have shown the agency used misleading accounting methods and lacked documentation to prove its claimed savings."\n\nWell, this administration appears to have issues without having anything stolen.\n\nThose in the service 1975 and after are many military who were in quite a few skirmishes that the government had, including those in Iraq.\n\nI hope they have hard copies somewhere, which they probably don't. Proving a negative is going to be hard for a lot of men who are eligible for benefits. How do you get benefits if you can't prove you are eligible for them? It will be up to the serviceman to prove, Hate to be them.\n\n26.5 MILLION RECORDS from 1975 to present
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Those are likely still ongoing, especially as the material costs are just now being affected (what was already in stock was pre-hurricane in many cases). Here's what's been done already:
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It's certainly not an easy question or our elected leaders would have done it a long time ago.  And any simple answer you hear to this question is likely riddled with problems.\n\nOne problem is that one person's "pork project" is another person's vital program, so cutting out "pork" is not as easy as it looks.  There are some eggregious examples of wasteful & foolish spending every year, but most of the earmarked spending goes to projects that specific groups of constituents have clamored for.  And another difficulty is the fact that these pork projects are often part of the negotiations process for major legislation.  If we take away earmarked spending completely, it would be like trying to drive a car without ever giving it oil: the process would just break down & very little would get done.  It doesn't make earmarked spending right or wrong: it's just important to face the realities of politics if an effective solution is to be found.\n\nGovernors have it tough: they can't print more money every time they need it, so they actually have to balance budgets.  It would be a welcome change if the folks in D.C. would stop putting additional financial burdens on the states in an effort to look like they're cutting spending (ex. Medicare and No Child Left Behind.)\n\nSolutions?  We have to treat the federal budget like we would a credit card: You must not spend more than you can afford to pay or you will lose a LOT of money in the long run.  Despite the economic benefits of doing so, cutting taxes without cutting an equal amount of spending is simply taxation of those not yet old enough to vote.  So we need to reinstate "pay-as-you-go" rules & hold Congress accountable to those rules every election.  If someone votes for a tax cut without saying how the tax cut will be paid for, replace that office holder with someone who knows how credit cards actually work.\n\nTax cuts are not inherently bad and government spending is not inherently bad.  But spending what you can't pay IS bad.  That's the part that needs to change.
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I did some google research hadenough......you're right......out of the ten articles I found and read there was no mention of starvation or malnutrition.  Who said that garbage anyway?  Where have I been, I missed that one too.  They're closing because we can't keep up with the costs of all their ailments.  Where does that leave us Americans for health care?  So our health care costs will rise again just so we can keep a few hospitals open for us Citizens.
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You can find copies, spreadsheets, and some analyses as well as other links at the U.S. Office of Managment and Budget here: \n2006 - http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/\n2007 - http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/\n\nHave fun!
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actually, they won't cut a whole lot... unless they cut spending for the war.  their campaign was one of "create more social programs to spend the extra money that we will be taxing"
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I would like to see this plan too. Isn't it amazing how they were elected by simply stating they had a plan. No one made them accountable for their plan. I will say this, I pray they do have a plan and I hope it doesn't involve cutting and running. We owe our troops much more than that. God bless!
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No, but a friend of mine did. He told em the hours were pretty long.  Sorry I don't have any info on the rest.
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This will take a significant amount of work.\n\nThe actual budget you can get a copy of through your elected representative.  It may even be available on a disk.  If you seek on the internet it is possible to find such on a disk from a private company but it will cost money.\n\nTo the total cost of IT means that you will you have to go through each Agenmcy's/ Depatment's line item budget.  I don't believe that there are common account numbers across all agencies/departments.\n\nEven when you are through with that project you  will only have a part of the IT cost because for cetain agencies these figures are behind security walls.\n\nGood Luck.
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I'm confused by your writing that "Republicans in Congress have their work cut out for them this fall". Is there some secret polling I'm not aware of that says Democrats are cruising along? Last I heard the Democrats in Congress were polling with LESS than 25% approval ratings.\n\nI think everyone is going to have a tough time this election season. And that's awesome.
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As far as I know there is not a copy that you can find. I have looked and there is not much on it. After all, this is not something that some people want us to know about. There are some good books that talk about it, but I do not know of any that have the report in it. I don't think that many people want to know, after all, it shakes their comfort to think that they might not be as "free" as they think.