GOP: Slash Current Aid

I used to enjoy politics, and the wrangling rhetorical rants therin.  But lately, my inevitable nausea each time I see what belittling, thinly veiled attempt by the GOP to crush the very last drops of lifeblood out of the middle and lower class in this country sends me running.  This article is no different.  Yet again, under the thread-bare guise of "fiscal responsibility", the Republican party is working on sticking it to the less advantaged.  And by that I mean those who gross under $500,000 a year or so.  Their latest attempt is aimed at the Department of Education's budget, where they seek to slash spending for Title I schools, special education, Pell Grants (which of course are for moderate to low income students), a plethora of literacy programs (because being Republican and literate - or logical - is the ultimate oxymoron of course, and they have to breathe new life into their party somehow), Head Start, the Education Technology State Grants, and Race to the Top.  Now I'm not about to say that all of these programs are necessarily run with precise fiscal mechanics, or that there couldn't be better ways to spend their current budgets.  But frankly it makes me so enraged when they nonchalantly kick poor kids to the curb in favor of tax cuts for the extremely wealthy (which, by the way, would pay for a LOT of this) that I hardly feel coherent. 
Now, I've tried to keep my own political meanderings out of this blog as much as possible, but at long last I can no longer hold back.  It seems too sinister, almost conspiracy theory-esque, and yet how else does it make sense?  The GOP doesn't want an intelligent, critically thinking citizen base - it would completely devalidate their party as a whole.  They run off lies and deceit, relying on Glen Beck and Fox News to pander to the masses in dribbles they lap up without question, as they never learned (in school!) to think for themselves.  I will not stand for it!! THIS is why my classes will learn the value of thinking for themselves, of seeking out information from multiple sources, and of questioning everything they hear and see.  But if the GOP has it their way, in ten years time our country will be so mired with sixty to a room classes and soup kitchen lines stretching for acres that no one will listen to me above the growling of empty bellies and leaking hovels.  It needs to stop.