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Alamo, The (2004)
IMDB rating: 5.90
Plot: Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston’s rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna’s army which led to the indepedence of Texas.
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Directors: Hancock John Lee
Actors: Thornton Billy Bob,Molla Jordi,Quaid Dennis,Patric Jason,Wilson Patrick,Echevarria Emilio,Rippy Leon,Page Kevin,Erickson Craig,Davidson Tom,Blucas Marc,Prentiss Robert,Stevens Joe,Bruton Stephen,Chavira Ricardo,War,Western,Drama,History,
What do you think of what's on Obama's "chopping block" for the budget?
* A long-discussed and controversial plan to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The proposal to eliminate $197 million for the project will have a powerful ally on Capitol Hill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
* Subsidies to wealthy farmers, a perennial budget target that has avoided getting hit in the past. The proposal would cut the cap on direct payments to wealthy farmers from $40,000 to $30,000 and reduce income eligibility to save nearly $2.3 billion over the next 10 years.
* A program that pays states to clean up abandoned coal mines that have already been cleaned up. Savings: $115 million next year and $1.2 billion over 10 years.
* A $5 million Forest Service economic development program that funded, among other things, "a water musical festival."
* A planned $20 million refurbishment of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center in New Mexico. The linear accelerator was built 30 years ago and no longer plays a critical role in weapons research.
* A $120 million program that allows low-income people to get their Earned Income Tax Credit in advance. About 80 percent of those receiving early payments were later found ineligible.
* An $18 million program to clean up and redevelop "brownfields" — abandoned, idled and underused industrial and commercial facilities in urban areas.
* A $761 million reduction in spending on construction of housing for low-income elderly and those with disabilities.
* Pet congressional health service projects worth $383 million that are not subject to the usual competitive or merit-based process for funding. Included in the cuts would be proposed health care clinics in Alaska and Mississippi.
* A $12 million program to give grants to improve security on inter-city buses.
* Two National Park Service programs to restore historic buildings and promote heritage tourism, for a savings of $30 million.
* An exchange program for Alaska Natives, native Hawaiians, children and families living in Massachusetts and members of Indian tribes in Mississippi that have historic links to whaling and trading.
* Grants to sites related to the Underground Railroad.
* Grants to art organizations in the nation’s capital, including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, for a savings of $5 million.
Personally, if he just cut out welfare and made people work then that would save enough money to buy back all our bonds from China, so he could then bow to the Dalai Lama as much as he wants.
Let’s start with the bloated social programs and pet projects. 50% reduction now, 100% by next year. Along with this, lets cut taxes and reduce government regulation to allow businesses to grow and thrive.
mustagme | Feb 02, 2010
It’s not nearly enough, considering he wants to borrow $1.5 trillion.
Beer Drinker, Hell Raiser | Feb 02, 2010
Repeal Bush’s tax cuts and we’d have a surplus in no time
Mon amie la rose | Feb 02, 2010
Progressive liberal math, raise big government waste spending by 400% and propose to cut spending next year by less than 1%.
clean truck | Feb 02, 2010
Harry Reid is a lame duck. He’s gone for sure in November.
There are not enough cuts.
The stimulus needs to be repealed, giving Americans their money back
Replealing the Tax cuts? No, that wouldn’t do anything but drive the economy and tax revenue DOWN. You must be High, Mon Amie La Rose
These very same tax cuts helped us avoid a large recession after 9/11, until Democrats took over Congress in 06 and started spending like drunken sailors…. with apologies to drunken sailors, comparing them to Progressive Democrats
That’s where your "inherited" defecit came from. The annointed one had a hand in it also. I didn’t see him voting against any of those spending bills…Hmmm???.. Obama? Not taking responsibility? How odd
Thomas | Feb 02, 2010
Cutting the funding for Yucca Mountain,and not pushing to finally finish the project PROVES he lied recently when he said he supported Nuclear Energy. Another 0bama Lie,what a shock.
Most of the rest I agree with.Though I’m shocked he would be cutting funding for housing for poor and disabled,when in other parts of the Budget he’s escalating spending on Welfare Programs.But that Public Housing Cut will never make it through,in fact other than Yucca Mountain,I’ll bet most of those cuts don’t survive the Budget Process.
RWE
Right Wing Extremist | Feb 02, 2010
How much is that? Less than 5 Billion dollars on a 3.6 TRILLION dollar budget? Pathetic.
grandma zaza | Feb 02, 2010
I live in the Rust Belt
watching our jobs go overseas and Pork spending has rendered us all but helpless
Now most of our women are higher wage earners then our men due to lack of job opportunities for the men and medical jobs open to women
If he is going to spend money and cut back
We don’
t need newly paved roads We need Green manufacturing jobs
like building solar panels etc
When I see all the money spent in Haiti
and God bless them they need help
I tend to wonder about our [my] area and wonder when someone is going to help us!!!!
spundtucker | Feb 02, 2010
Most of those things are getting their budgets AT LEAST doubled and THEN "frozen" or slightly reduced.
Peace through blinding force | Feb 02, 2010
Revamp welfare yes, Investigate, prosecute and clean up the fraud in
medicare and medicaid, You do these three things alone, nothing else,
you would have a surplus large enough to cover every man woman and
child in this country with better insurance coverage than the Congress
has.
raymond | Feb 02, 2010
It’s a start. Unfortunately the money has to come from somewhere. He has to cut a lot more. Notice there is no corporate grant money being cut?
kadiss17 | Feb 02, 2010
Just so we’re all on the same page… I’ll just pick one at random with a fairly easy number. "Pet congressional health service projects worth $383 million that are not subject to the usual competitive or merit-based process for funding. Included in the cuts would be proposed health care clinics in Alaska and Mississippi."
Congrats, each American just saved a dollar on their taxes! Crazy how millions of dollars is now chump change.
Hambone | Feb 02, 2010
Your suggestion does not make sense. The welfare reforms of the 1990s already require able-bodied people to perform work in order to continue to receive benefits. Some states already had such programs in effect. Also, as a result of the Great Recession many more people are destitute. This is hardly the time to target welfare programs.
Not everyone is going to be entirely happy with any cuts in the federal budget. Those who are adversely affected or whose favored programs are targeted will be unhappy. Anyone can try to substitute his or her judgment for that of the decision makers but that does not make the conclusions correct.
tribeca_belle | Feb 02, 2010
not much
Gypsy Tramp & Thief | Feb 02, 2010
These are all spending programs that wouldn’t and couldn’t be paid for by the state or local government so they propose the spending in the federal government and voila! there it is. We can’t afford to keep spending like this. By 2020, just the interest on the debt will be close to $1 trillion per year. The politicians need to cut up the credit cards now.
PAYAK | Feb 02, 2010
grandiose posturing doesn’t pay the bills and never has
when in a position in government to encourage and PROMISE acountability and change spend money on a broom, sweep your own floor clean, then and only then dare to dictate to the people
that have done that since (choose now) knows when!
renclrk | Feb 02, 2010
In the ’60’s the saying was, "Never trust anyone over 30." Today it’s "Never trust comrade Obama."
shjOlds_442 | Feb 02, 2010
MATT Nr | Jan 28, 2010
Scott Buckley