New report: President's policies fail rural Wyoming residents
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Feb 16, 2007 Posted by Bill Luckett
President Bush's budget would severely and negatively impact the quality of life of rural Wyoming residents, according to a new report issued by the Democratic Policy Committee. Since 2001, the committee has issued reports on the failure of the president's policy to address the issues important to rural Americans. The report confirms that the president's cuts in funding for law enforcement, health care, education, and economic development will have a harmful impact on working families, farmers, ranchers, small businesses and local economies across the West. At the same time, the budget would put affordable health care further out of reach for many working Americans in Wyoming. Furthermore, the president's budget would underfund children's health care and do nothing to reduce the ranks of Wyoming's 14,000 uninsured children.
"President Bush is engaging in gimmickry in order to justify his misplaced priorities such as tax cuts at expense of rural Wyoming residents," said Wyoming Democratic Party Chairman Mike Gierau. "Many of these initiatives that the Bush Administration has callously slashed are critical to the well-being of Wyoming's working families. Republicans should join Democrats in combating this reckless and irresponsible assault on rural Americans and work to craft a budget that builds up all working families."
The rural report card issued by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee shows how the president's reckless budget cuts will hurt law enforcement, health care, education, economic development and agriculture in rural Wyoming and rural America. The full report can be found at: http://democrats.senate.gov/dpc/dpc-new.cfm?doc_name=fs-109-2-22