AP---Bush's $3 Trillion Budget Dominated By Iraq

[PhilipShore]

February 4, 2007

http://www.nbc6.net/money/10926831/detail.html

WHITE HOUSE -- The Pentagon is the big winner in President Bush's proposed budget for next year, while domestic items such as aid to schools and grants to local governments will get only the slightest of increases.

Bush's spending plan totals almost $3 trillion for the budget year starting Oct. 1. It would produce a surplus in five years, helped by steady revenue growth and a squeeze on the one-sixth of the budget that covers domestic agencies such as the departments of Education, Energy and Health and Human Services.

Domestic agencies would not face an outright cut, as proposed last year, but would see increases averaging 1 percent, White House Budget director Rob Portman said. That is less than anticipated inflation, but higher costs for veterans' health care probably would result in a larger than average increase.

[marmar]

1. When did this country become a military junta?

:argh:

[Demeter]

2. Jan 21, 2001 or thereabouts

[ixion]

3. "...would produce a surplus in five years..."

lol, that's a good one. :rofl:

yeah, in FAIRYLAND. :eyes:

[Miss Chybil]

5. Yes, especially considering the money for the war is not included in the budget. nt

[TomClash]

4. The proposed Pentagon budget is about $635b

Amazing.

[Zorra]

6. Chimpolini started with a large surplus and few days later spent us into

the deep red abyss.

He absolutely cannot be trusted with our money - he only wants to make his family and fellow fascist war profiteers wealthier so that he can crush We the People into being their permanent indentured servants.

Fuck him.

DOWN WITH BUSH

[daleo]

7. A surplus in five years

If an intelligent Democrat replaces Bush.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Can you imagine if he pumped 3 trillion into US inner cities?

[nealmhughes]

9. 3 Trillion is 3 Million Million. 12 zeros. The US population is about 300 Million,

3 with 8 zeros, divide 3 with 12 zeros by 3 with 8 zeros and one has: 1 with 4 zeros: 10,000$ for everyone in the country.

What do we get for that?

[Posteritatis]

24. Hosed. (n/t)

[sakabatou]

10. Our debt will no longer be counted in bllions, but in trillions

[UpInArms]

11. Pentagon is big winner in Bush's 2008 budget

http://www.elpasotimes.com/election/ci_5157697

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is the big winner in President Bush's proposed budget for next year, while domestic items such as aid to schools and grants to local governments will get only the slightest of increases.

Medicare and Medicaid, the health program for the poor and disabled, would shoulder modest but politically difficult cost curbs in the budget the White House is submitting to Congress on Monday.

Some $18 billion in budget savings would come from farm programs over five years.

Bush's spending plan totals almost $3 trillion for the budget year starting Oct. 1. It would produce a surplus in five years, helped by steady revenue growth and a squeeze on the one-sixth of the budget that covers domestic agencies such as the departments of Education, Energy and Health and Human Services.

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The Pentagon, which also consumes one-sixth of the overall budget, would get a whopping 11 percent increase, to $481.4 billion in its core budget. And that is before accounting for an additional $235 billion in war costs over the next year and a half.

...more...

[sakabatou]

12. Gee, who would've guessed?

[Olney Blue]

13. Insane.

[whistle]

14. How many children will go hungry in 2008 as a result of redistributing

...the resources of the world to accommodate this military budget?

[UpInArms]

15. reminds me of what Eisenhower said

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953

[yardwork]

16. Assholes.

[demnan]

17. This is an extremely important thread

"Follow the money" is probably the best chance we have of impeaching these bastards.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

18. And in Oregon because of Federal funding loss.

My county ( Curry ) will be technically bankrupt. The state of Oregon will have to step in to provide local services. The sheriff will have to lay off seven deputies and we will no longer have 24 hour coverage. " It's literally about survial. " said Senator Ron Wyden.

[Pastiche423]

20. Same thing for Coos County

And our sheriff is pissed!

[ohio2007]

19. of course, all their stuff is broken,smashed or beyond repair

[PhilipShore]

21. Bush's $3 Trillion Budget Dominated By Cheney's Halliburton and Iraq

Raw Story
October 11, 2005

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheneys_stock_options_rose_3281_last_1011.html

Cheney's Halliburton stock options rose 3,281% last year, senator finds

An analysis released by a Democratic senator found that Vice President Dick Cheney's Halliburton stock options have risen 3,281 percent in the last year, RAW STORY can reveal.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) asserts that Cheney's options -- worth $241,498 a year ago -- are now valued at more than $8 million. The former CEO of the oil and gas services juggernaut, Cheney has pledged to give proceeds to charity.

[HuffleClaw]

22. 'increases averaging 1 percent' ???

that is some offensive. and what will the dems do with this?

[classysassy]

23. The dems

are in charge,come on Nancy impeach that loon,before world war three is upon us.

[Rainscents]

25. Bush is INSANE!!!