Bush Proposes Steep Cuts in $2.57T Budget
WASHINGTON - President Bush [gods, my stomach turns to see those two words together] proposed a $2.57 trillion budget Monday that would erase scores of programs and slice Medicaid, disabled housing and many more but still worsen federal deficits by $42 billion over the next five years.
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Forty-eight education programs would be eliminated, including one for ridding drugs from schools. In all, more than 150 government-wide programs would be eliminated or slashed deeply, including Amtrak subsidies, oil and gas research, and grants to communities hiring police officers.
Bush would slow the growth of benefit programs by $137 billion over the next decade, nearly quadruple the savings he proposed a year ago with little success. Chief among the targets would be Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the poor and disabled, but farmers' payments, student loans and veterans medical services were also on the chopping block.
"It's a budget that focuses on results," Bush told reporters after meeting with his Cabinet. "The taxpayers of America don't want us spending our money into something that's not achieving results." [underscores mine]
Well, thank gods somebody finally saw through the complete frivolity of useless things like student loans, health care for the poor and hiring police officers. It's about time they got rid of this outlandish porkbarrel bullshit and got back to the important things, like defending our freedom from hastily assembled groups of dipshit bombers who aren't attacking the US and would most likely leave us completely alone if we just left their damn country.
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What I wanna know is, how the hell can you write a budget so retarded that you stop giving money to pretty much everybody and the deficit STILL goes up? Where the hell is all this money going?? Do I even wanna know?? Am I gonna run out of question marks before I'm done with this post???
If I Ran My Household Budget The Way Bush Proposes To Run Our Budget
~The student loan people would have to just settle for $50 a month instead of $85 like they want.
~I'd stop paying my medical bills and probably most of my utilities.
~I'd blow all my money at McDonald's, MallWart and the gun shop, and fling the wrappers and receipts all over the place, completely oblivious to clearly marked garbage cans.
~I'd bitch to the IRS that I didn't have any money to pay for anything and demand that my taxes be reduced. I'd claim a tax deduction on the firearms because they're necessary to defend myself against this one creepy-looking wifebeater who lives in my town who might have a firearm or who, if he doesn't, might purchase one at some time in the future.
~I'd refuse to pay to have the locks on my car replaced, and then demand tougher sentencing when somebody broke into it.
I could go on and on. Point is, how far do you think I'd get with a budget like that?
The only thing that would get an obscenity like this passed would be the fact that it's not an election year and a lot of people will have forgotten about it by the time the Congresspeople who vote on it come up for reelection. But the people it affects won't have forgotten. It has great potential for being a career killer, and maybe their self-interest will end up working for us for a change. I hope they leave it to die gasping on the floor like a heart attack victim who's so ugly nobody has the guts to give them mouth-to-mouth.
And that's Monday for ya.
same bitch time, same bitch channel...
Posted by Frida Peeple at February 7, 2005 08:22 PM