The fact that Aids, predicted to slash by a third Africa's population, has simply not done so, will no more dent the appeal of Armageddon than will the wilder claims of climate changers.
If the Supreme Court strikes down the entire health care law, the government will have to slash aid to low-income students in order to reestablish government's lucrative relationship to loan-servicing corporations.
Both Inhofe and Coburn voted to slash aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy, with Inhofe saying he considered the full proposed aid amount to be a "slush fund".
Bill Gates is concerned that the notion that "foreign aid is a waste of money", which he says is often based on anecdotal evidence, and gives governments an excuse to slash aid budgets.
Indeed, according to an article by Michael Tomasky in New York magazine, Senators Phil Gramm and Don Nickles attempted to slash aid to New York within hours of Mr. Bush's promise.
Even Rick Santorum, who has been described by the National Review as holding "unstinting devotion to human dignity" and as fluent in "the struggles of the working class," wants to slash aid to the poor.
Corzine felt compelled to slash aid to local municipalities and to revoke property-tax rebates for families making more than $75,000 — decisions that lighted a fuse on the most combustible issue in New Jersey politics.
The legal not-for-profit sector will bear the brunt of the legal aid cuts that threaten to slash £350m from the £2.2bn total budget.
During debates in America's Congress over proposals to slash aid to Egypt as a penalty for failing to reform, numerous speakers cited the danger of empowering Islamists and undermining a government which, though distasteful, has served American interests.Similar signs of a return to realpolitik have been noted with relief by Arab governments.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said the Obama administration remains committed to restoring democracy in Egypt despite the decision to slash aid to the country.
