Remember that
"Kindler, Gentler America?"
Bush Plan Would Trim Survivor Benefits: "
It does not, however cut benefits to those
"fittest" Americans, who survive and thrive on
soon to be permanent tax cuts and other tidbits.msb

Bush Plan Would Trim Survivor Benefits
Feb 07 8:09 PM US/Eastern
DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON
President Bush's budget calls for elimination of a $255 lump-sum death payment that has been part of Social Security for more than 50 years and urges Congress to cut off monthly survivor benefits to 16- and 17- year-old high school dropouts.

If approved, the two proposals would save a combined $3.4 billion over the next decade, according to administration estimates."

American Progress Action Fund

Budget Pains

February 7 , 2006

When President Bush delivered his State of the Union Address, he made commitments to health care, education and innovation. However, as in years past, his 2007 $2.77 trillion budget request, released yesterday, shows that his address was more talk and less action. Bush’s budget favors the interests of the wealthy and connected and puts at risk the interests of those who most need the government’s help. Even Bush’s traditional allies aren’t thrilled with the bill. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), chairman of the Budget Committee, said, "There are some programs in there I have heartburn about." If the President was serious during the State of the Union, he would have submitted an entirely different budget.