The Crackhead's New Budget: $2,770,000,000,000 in Spending
Originally published Feb 06, 2006
We'll now pause for you to pop your eyeballs back in their sockets.
You read right. Bush wants to cut programs which help Americans
("entitlements" - as in Americans are indeed entitled to these benefits,
rather than the sneering use of the word by GOPers), and spend more on tax
cuts and spying on Americans.
We're guessing even Bush didn't hear his own state of the union address
where he talked a great game about deficit reduction. Sounds like another
statement made that night that we shouldn't take literally.
At least street crackheads just steal radar detectors out of cars - not
$2,770,000,000,000 out of the next three generations' pockets. Insane.
Bush's $2.77 Trillion Budget Plan Calls for Medicare Cuts
President Bush submitted a $2.77 trillion budget plan to Congress today
that calls for cutting Medicare and putting tight limits on most spending
not related to national security.
Mr. Bush also repeated his call for Congress to make tax cuts passed in
2001 permanent. They are scheduled to expire in 2010.
The plan calls for eliminating or making deep cuts in 141 programs for a
savings of almost $15 billion, but would provide more money for defense,
homeland security, preparations for a possible outbreak of bird flu and
promotion of the physical sciences.
The plan calls for $65 billion in reductions in projected entitlement
spending over the next five years. In what may become the most contentious
proposal, the growth of Medicare spending would be cut by $36 billion over
the next five years.
The proposal covers the 2007 fiscal year, which will begin on Oct. 1.
The total of $2.77 trillion in spending called for would be up by 2.3
percent from projected spending of $2.71 trillion this year.
The plan did not cover the cost of military operations in Iraq or
Afghanistan or the cost of emergency aid in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
The Bush administration said last week that it would submit requests for
supplemental spending for $120 billion for the two wars and $18 billion
more for the hurricane's aftermath.
In part because of those costs, the budget office said that the deficit
for the current fiscal year would be $423 billion, a record high, up from
its midyear estimate of $341 billion. The new budget projects the deficit
to fall to $354 billion in the 2007 fiscal year, and to $183 billion in
2010.
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