Highlights of Bush's 3 trillion dollar budget..

LD · 2008-02-04, 08:09 PM

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???

Agent · 2008-02-05, 01:43 AM

I remember years ago seeing Rumsfeld (I'm pretty sure it was him) on television expressing the idea that the war on terror would never be won. Instead, for the rest of our lives we would work at maintaining it. The idea just blew past me at the time.

Now I understand what he was really saying. And when I hear similar rhetoric now it sounds alarms.

Maintaining the war on terror means a constant state of "war" on "terror." (broadly defined by this administration) It means more wars (legal or illegal). More weapons being built and used. More profits. More disenfranchised peoples. More potential real terror. And more products and services to deal with the new terror. Fuck, even building prisons to hold people is big business.

You have the government handing out bundles of money, sometimes attached to no-bid contracts to companies in the weapons industry. In turn they create services and products to perpetuate war and turn a profit. What is better than a war that never ends, one that needs to be maintained for the duration of our lives?

McCain's recent "100 years in Iraq" comment should also throw some red flags.

Jim · 2008-02-05, 07:25 AM

I wish Bush would just settle in the Lame Duck status that he's in. This is going to be a long year.

docholly · 2008-02-05, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim

I wish Bush would just settle in the Lame Duck status that he's in. This is going to be a long year.

I think he's afraid to be a Lame Duck cuz then Cheney would shoot him.

SirMoby · 2008-02-05, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim

I wish Bush would just settle in the Lame Duck status that he's in. This is going to be a long year.

Wait until after the November election. If anyone wins that can't be controlled by The PNAC, which will probably be the case, he's going to start some serious shit.

He's going to make his daddy's last 60 days in office look like a peace mission.

2008-02-04, 08:09 PM	#1
LD wtfwjd? Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 2,103	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??? __________________ Artisteer Wordpress Theme Generator Create Custom Themes! My Little Network

2008-02-05, 01:43 AM	#2
Agent You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 631	I remember years ago seeing Rumsfeld (I'm pretty sure it was him) on television expressing the idea that the war on terror would never be won. Instead, for the rest of our lives we would work at maintaining it. The idea just blew past me at the time. Now I understand what he was really saying. And when I hear similar rhetoric now it sounds alarms. Maintaining the war on terror means a constant state of "war" on "terror." (broadly defined by this administration) It means more wars (legal or illegal). More weapons being built and used. More profits. More disenfranchised peoples. More potential real terror. And more products and services to deal with the new terror. Fuck, even building prisons to hold people is big business. You have the government handing out bundles of money, sometimes attached to no-bid contracts to companies in the weapons industry. In turn they create services and products to perpetuate war and turn a profit. What is better than a war that never ends, one that needs to be maintained for the duration of our lives? McCain's recent "100 years in Iraq" comment should also throw some red flags. __________________ Brihana.com

2008-02-05, 07:25 AM	#3
Jim Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Mohawk, New York Posts: 19,477	I wish Bush would just settle in the Lame Duck status that he's in. This is going to be a long year.