Jim Hightower: "Congress chooses to keep poisoning children''

"Yes, we certainly need to cut unnecessary and even frivolous federal spending, because… well, because it's unnecessary and frivolous.

So, Congress has targeted unnecessary oil subsidies and frivolous tax giveaways to billionaires, right? Uh… no. Instead, our learned solons have chosen to whack the Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. This tiny, $30 million fund (not even a decimal point in the national budget) was slashed by 94 percent to only $2 million. Gutting this program will not save you and me a penny on our tax bills."

jim is a national treasure..........from jim hightower.com....