America: Do you want the 'people's budget' or the military-industrial complex's budget?
Congress sort of put the 2011 budget to bed last Friday with an 11th hour deal that forestalled a federal government shutdown. Teapublicans had a laundry list of progressive legislation that they wanted to completely defund or dramatically reduce:
Head Start (which helps poor children be prepared to enter school) and public education, in general,
Pell Gra…
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