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Bush’s
Budget
Sets
New
Record
High
GW
Bush
claims
to
an
economic
conservative,
but
he
is,
by
far,
the
biggest
liar
in
the
history
of
American
politics.
What
he’s
really
doing
is
squandering
the
nation’s
financial
resources
on
military
issues
and
cutting
back
in
all
the
areas
really
needed
by
Americans.
It’s
all
smoke
and
mirrors
with
this
administration.
They’re
out
on
the
campaign
trail,
promising
to
reduce
government
spending
in
order
to
gain
conservative
votes
in
the
presidential
election,
but
at
the
same
time,
Bush
has
quietly
submitted
a
$3
trillion
budget
--
the
most
expensive
in
the
country’s
history.
The
Regime
claims
this
budget
will
result
in
a
smaller
deficit
than
it’s
record-breaking
$413
billion
deficit
in
2004,
but
the
budget
for
the
Iraq
and
Afghanistan
wars
is
estimated
at
$70
billion
for
the
year.
The
actual
request
for
the
2009
war
budget
is
almost
$200
billion!
This
is
in
addition
to
the
Pentagon’s
$35
billion
budget
increase
to
$515
billion
for
its
basic
costs,
which
don’t
include
the
wars.
Meanwhile,
Bush
and
Company
plan
to
reduce
funding
for
non-military
spending,
including
healthcare.
Bush
wants
to
freeze
medical
research
and
reduce
funds
for
teaching
hospitals.
The
budget
calls
for
a
$2
billion
reduction
in
the
Health
and
Human
Services
Department’s
funding
--
this
is
twice
the
size
of
the
reductions
Bush
sought
for
the
HHS
in
his
last
budget.
Most
federal
agencies
will
have
their
budgets
reduced
under
Bush’s
plan,
with
the
exception
of
the
Veterans
Affairs
and
Homeland
Security
agencies.
A
$302
million
subsidy
for
medical
education
at
children’s
hospitals
would
be
eliminated.
$300
million
for
public
health
projects
would
also
be
cut.
Funding
for
improvements
in
healthcare
for
rural
areas
would
be
reduced
by
87
percent.
Bush
claims
his
budget
will
result
in
a
surplus
in
2012,
but
this
is
just
more
campaign
rhetoric.
And
the
budget
does
not
include
the
costs
of
war
past
2009.
This
despite
the
fact
that
in
his
final
State
of
the
Union
speech
Bush
announced
plans
to
stay
in
Iraq
for
the
long
term
and
partner
with
the
country
to
maintain
a
military
presence
and
a
$592
million
embassy
in
Baghdad,
the
most
expensive
in
the
world.
And
the
budget
does
not
include
Bush’s
proposed
$150
billion
tax
rebate,
a
desperate
plan
to
save
the
American
economy
by
giving
the
country’s
poor
some
money
to
spend.
If
this
plan
doesn’t
work
and
the
economy
enters
a
recession
the
budget
deficit
will
be
even
larger.
There
is
no
real
plan
to
rebuild
the
nation’s
infrastructure
in
the
budget.
Or
to
improve
the
education
system,
or
provide
healthcare
improvements
and
lower
costs
for
medications.
At
the
same
time,
Bush
remains
adamant
about
extending
the
tax
cuts
for
his
buddies,
the
rich,
that
he
enacted
in
2001
and
2003.
Feb.
2008 |
