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Obama budget targets women amid complaints
With women's advocacy groups voicing growing unease with administration policy, President Barack Obama will propose a $3.8 trillion budget on Monday that would exempt programs for women and girls from spending restrictions he's proposed for other programs.
Obama aides denied political calculation was behind the emphasis on programs for women and girls, detailed in a budget document obtained by McClatchy entitled "Opportunity and Progress for Women and Girls."
"We're looking at a lot of significant funding increases for women's programs in a year when the president has ordered a three-year, non-security, discretionary spending freeze," Kate Bedingfield, a White House spokesman, said.
The document describes 15 federal programs that benefit women that would get increased funding under his spending plan. Nine of the programs are narrowly aimed at women and girls, but six are much broader initiatives that would benefit men and boys as well, including the 1.4 percent pay increase requested for the U.S. military.
Women are a key voting block for Obama. Exit polling from the 2008 election showed 56 percent of female voters cast ballots for Obama. Only 49 percent of male voters backed Obama. Women remain supportive: A Gallup poll conducted in early January found that 54 percent of women surveyed approved of Obama's performance; only 47 percent of men said the same.
In recent weeks, however, women rights advocates have been critical of the administration, particularly after Obama's allies in Congress agreed to limits on insurance coverage for abortion in health-care legislation passed by the House.
Women's-rights advocates also challenged Obama's decision to impose a spending freeze on discretionary domestic programs while continuing to increase military, intelligence and other homeland security funding.
"A domestic spending freeze would lead us in the wrong direction," Terry O'Neill, head of the National Organization for Women, said last week after Obama's State of the Union address to Congress.
"It would, for example, decimate funding for many battered women's shelters at a time when the recession is causing a spike in domestic violence rates," O'Neill said. "At the least, our swollen military budget should receive as much cost-conscious scrutiny as services for vulnerable women."
The budget unveiled Monday would exempt those programs from the freeze.
Among the programs targeted at women are $8.1 billion in food aid for low-income pregnant women, infants and children up to 5 years old and $3.9 billion for child care and Head Start meals.
It also will increase by $10 million money set aside for family planning efforts, raising the total to $327 million, including $205 million for the prevention of teen pregnancy, the rate of which has increased after a decade of decline.
The budget also will propose spending $535 million in aid for victims of domestic violence - $117 million more than current funding, a 22 percent increase.
Obama last March issued an executive order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. In June, he named Lynn Rosenthal as special adviser on violence against women.
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1st-February-2010 #2
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Obama Binladin is a fucking scum bag, I hope some one puts him and his cronies out of everyone's misery.
You know it's men who will be footing the bill for this fucking horse shit.
Fucking asshole!
When the femanazis tell me it's their way or the highway I tell them to fuck off and die, because at lest the highway leads to new and intresting places, their ways is a dead end.
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1st-February-2010 #3
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"I am woman hear me roar" should be changed to "I am woman give me more".
The whole budget process in this country is held hostage by a small group of women's rights people holding the female voting block over the heads of elected officials. In my lifetime, I cannot think of a single budget crisis when N.O.W did not rise up and cry foul and say that women were somehow getting the short end of the stick. Where is there any discretionary spending for men? It doesn't exist.
The whole abortion funding issue makes me want to puke. I support reproductive rights for women, however, I detest the idea that MY MONEY is going to someone who is exercising a right that I DO NOT HAVE!Last edited by rohara; 1st-February-2010 at 06:06 PM.
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1st-February-2010 #4
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I hear you on that, one of these days the western goverments are going to be so corupt and so broke because of their pandering to women only that most men and boys will say to hell with them and stop suporting the system and then women will realized that the well has been poisoned and there is nothing they can do to fix it becuase they have pissed men and boys off for so long that most men and boys will tell women to go and fuck themselves when the crunch comes down the line
Sad but trueWhen the femanazis tell me it's their way or the highway I tell them to fuck off and die, because at lest the highway leads to new and intresting places, their ways is a dead end.
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1st-February-2010 #5
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The problem in America is a lot less than I had imagined. Piece of cake to have that sorted by next elections.Exit polling from the 2008 election showed 56 percent of female voters cast ballots for Obama. Only 49 percent of male voters backed Obama.
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1st-February-2010 #8
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The government needs women for sheep!
They are trying to make women as comfortable as humanly possible so it'd be easier to enslave them when the shit hits the fan. The government knows they have no chance in hell at enslaving real men so they go after the easy targets which are women and children. Tyrants of both sexes have pull this underhanded shit for ages and they usually do it when they are in danger of losing power.
All of the brainless, anti male trollops who are feeding that beast are too fucking stupid realize that they are digging their own graves.
Don't expect any of those morons to wake up anytime soon.
Did you know that the church of Satan actually despises women?
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1st-February-2010 #9
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When the femanazis tell me it's their way or the highway I tell them to fuck off and die, because at lest the highway leads to new and intresting places, their ways is a dead end.
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1st-February-2010 #10
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If it's one thing that my faith has taught me is that "Evil men and women are sloppy and not that hard to figure out!"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand how corrupt specimens work! It just takes common sense and a firm understanding of right and wrong.
In a way, I pity those fools who will be enslaved and beaten down by the same government they claim, has liberated women!
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1st-February-2010 #11
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When the femanazis tell me it's their way or the highway I tell them to fuck off and die, because at lest the highway leads to new and intresting places, their ways is a dead end.
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1st-February-2010 #12
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I'm still perplexed as to what women's rights NOW is advocating for exactly? Can anybody furnish me with an adequate U.S. example which doesn't involve importing the inequalities of third-world women? Wouldn't 'women's-privileges advocates' be a more honest description?Women's-rights advocates also challenged Obama's decision to impose a spending freeze on discretionary domestic programs while continuing to increase military, intelligence and other homeland security funding.
Note how O'Neil even begrudges an increase in expenditure which preserves her very freedoms? This is the insular and short-sighted mentality of the feminist bigot."A domestic spending freeze would lead us in the wrong direction," Terry O'Neill, head of the National Organization for Women, said last week after Obama's State of the Union address to Congress.
"It would, for example, decimate funding for many battered women's shelters at a time when the recession is causing a spike in domestic violence rates," O'Neill said. "At the least, our swollen military budget should receive as much cost-conscious scrutiny as services for vulnerable women."
Also, can she substantiate this supposed spike in domestic violence rates (for example, in the UK the spike in DV rates is due to an increase in female violence)? Probably not. But we can see in the below quote the benefits of claiming it nevertheless.
Obama's incessant serenading of NOW is not only cringeworthy, but it also shows his presidential weakness thru his succumbing to feminist ransom via voting bloc leverage.The budget also will propose spending $535 million in aid for victims of domestic violence - $117 million more than current funding, a 22 percent increase.Last edited by Celtic Druid; 1st-February-2010 at 11:02 PM.
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2nd-February-2010 #13
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It is most unlikely that any of that extra 22% for 'violence' will go to establishing men's shelters.
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