Highlights of Bush's 3 trillion dollar budget..
Budget highlights
# DEFICITS: The plan will claim deficits in the $400 billion range for this year and next
# DEFENSE: The Pentagon would get a $35 billion increase to $515 billion for core programs, about 7 percent, with war costs additional
# MEDICARE AND MEDICAID: The programs will see almost $200 billion in cuts over the next five years, about three times the savings proposed last year but rejected by Congress
# HEALTH: Health and Human Services Department funding would be cut by $2 billion, amounting to a 3 percent reduction
# HOMELAND SECURITY: Overall, the budget for homeland security programs will increase by almost 11 percent
Fuck the poor and sick, we got a military to fund. What has this country become???
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