It seems as if the decider has decided to give the pentagon and his "war-mongering" friends the lions share of his new budget plan. As expected, he screwed the American people and cut medicaid and medicare. The Pentagon, must be because of the great job they are doing in Iraq, got an 11% increase.
The Pentagon is the big winner in President Bush's proposed budget for next year, while domestic items such as aid to schools and grants to local governments will get slight increases.
Medicare and Medicaid, the health program for the poor and disabled, would shoulder modest but politically difficult cost curbs in the budget the White House is submitting to Congress on Monday.
Some $18 billion in budget savings would come from farm programs over five years.
Bush's spending plan totals almost $3 trillion for the budget year starting October 1. It would produce a surplus in five years, helped by steady revenue growth and a squeeze on the one-sixth of the budget that covers domestic agencies such as the departments of Education, Energy and Health and Human Services.
How long are we going to let this go on? How long can our children and grandchildren wait for us to stand up?
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We elected a Democratic Congress to deal with this idiot, war mongering, insane man and they had better start gutting the budget of anything that is not domestic spending. $500 Billion for the Pentagon and another $170 Billion for Iraq. Insane. I would say the Pentagon needs to go on a diet.
Wouldn't it a wonderful world if this kind of money trickled down to the people. Urban-planning, schools, real tax-breaks.
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