Bush Contempt for people is not reserved for the poor black people in New Orleans. He seems to not care about any of the priorities except for lining the pockets of the military industrial complex.
(I say that because the money spent on defense is not going to pay soldiers well, give them body armour that actually stops bullets, armour on the humvees, or the support veterans deserve)
visit American Progress Budget Blog.
BUSH: 'TOO MANY POOR KIDS GO TO COLLEGE': Federal programs to help students pay for higher education "take significant hits" in President Bush's budget: "The Perkins Loan program would be eliminated, and Pell grant funding for college students would drop by $4.6 billion." I HAD THIS CUT IN HALF, along with millions of other college students with Bush's First Budget in office. With Bush's New Budget my Loan that I got with CLINTON, is now gone.
BUSH: 'LEAVING NO CHILD BEHIND ISN'T WORTH THE COST': Department of Education spending on vital programs -- Upward Bound, GEAR UP, dropout prevention, etc. -- would fall by $2.1 billion, or 3.8 percent, under the president's budget. In all, Bush proposes to cut "42 Education Department programs to save $3.5 billion" while flat-funding two of education's most important programs, Title I and IDEA.
BUSH: 'VETERANS SHOULD PAY MORE FOR HEALTH CARE': Veterans younger than 65 would pay up to two or three times more for the military's health care program "under a controversial set of fee increases" proposed in the latest budget. "About 3.1 million retirees and their families nationwide would be affected," the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. SERIOUSLY, what a piece of shit. Our Armed Services are fighting a war of Bush's choosing, and he is cutting our Veterans' Benefits.
Veterans should be entitled to a lifetime of the FREE HEALTHCARE and the best that America can provide. Their immediate family should be entitled to the same benefits. PERIOD
BUSH: 'I STILL WANT TO PRIVATIZE SOCIAL SECURITY': When President Bush first launched his campaign to privatize Social Security last year, just 39 percent of Americans approved of how he was handling the issue. A year later, that number has dropped to 35 percent. Apparently, Bush didn't get the message. "[T]his year, with no fanfare whatsoever, Bush stuck a big Social Security privatization plan in the federal budget proposal," Newsweek reports. Beginning in 2010, people could set up private accounts at a cost of $700 billion dollars over seven years, all funds diverted from Social Security tax revenues. I give him one thing, he has serious Cohones. The pitch to rob us of our Social Security was so bad, they didn't even bother proposing an actual bill. What to do... Hide it in the budget.
BUSH: 'MY HIGHEST PRIORITY: TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHIEST': American Progress fellow Gene Sperling has spelled out Bush's budget narrative: "in the face of unpredictable, external, deficit-exploding forces beyond their control [like Katrina and Iraq], these brave budget warriors are successfully battling to return Washington to fiscal sanity." Actually, we could fund our legitimate priorities and reduce the deficit if not for Bush's tax cuts and his costly Medicare prescription drug benefit. If the tax cuts are made permanent, those two programs combined will cost more than $550 billion in 2011 and each year after.
Bush's Budget is very simple. Starve the government of revenue then say the only way to balance the budget is to cut all social spending. Its what Regean always wanted to do, "Starve the Beast." Make it so there is no government left to fun. And if a Democrat has the nerve, (like Clinton) to raise taxes to balance that budget, call names and make it impossible to reinstate these programs.
Of course what is missed by these evil politics is that it is more than just politics. As can see from above, they effect people in real ways. Bush's budget causes mor suffering and makes it harder on the Americn people. |