OK....So I made a couple purchaces last year. Well ALOT of them. See , I am into Pokeman and maxed out my Credit Cards on toys. Now I am in a bit of a bind with my creditors and have to make some tough descisions. First off I have decided to Stop paying for Grampas nursing home, and I cannot afford Grammas Medications, so I decided to switch to tylenol for all her pains.
Also, my kids will simply have to do without new clothes for a couple years, so I can funnel the funds into paying off my debt. I figure by the time I get promoted (about three years) I should be able to afford to get them new shoes, and hopefully Gramps lives long enough to reep the benefits of my descisions.
I need to do these things primarily because......I am commited to my Pokeman and am not in a position to simply abandon my toys. I just hope my Wife understands the need to cut back on the " little " things we use in day to day life. I am sure my kids will never even notice the loss.
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ASHINGTON, Feb. 4 - President Bush's budget for 2006 cuts spending for a wide range of public health programs, including several to protect the nation against bioterrorist attacks and to respond to medical emergencies, budget documents show.
Faced with constraints on spending caused by record budget deficits and the demands of the war in Iraq, administration officials said on Friday that they had increased the budget for some health programs but cut many others, including some that address urgent health care needs.
The documents show, for example, that Mr. Bush would cut spending for several programs that deal with epidemics, chronic diseases and obesity. His plan would also cut the budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by 9 percent, to $6.9 billion, the documents show.
The cuts are part of an attempt to control the federal deficit, while increasing spending on certain priority programs. Administration officials have said that in the budget, to be unveiled on Monday, Mr. Bush will propose that overall domestic spending, aside from entitlements, grows less than the rate of inflation next year.
But the administration is proposing to increase the Pentagon budget by 4.8 percent, to $419.3 billion in the 2006 fiscal year, according to Defense Department budget documents obtained by The New York Times. That sum does not include the costs of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, now running about $5 billion a month. Within a few weeks, the administration is expected to request about $80 billion to cover those costs.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/05/politics/05cuts.html