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Friday,
February 06, 2004
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Bush’s
proposed budget not sound
Proposal
combines deficits, spending cuts
COMMENTARY
Bush’s
proposed budget is the worst of both worlds, combining
both huge deficits and draconian spending cuts. The hidden
spending and irresponsible tax cuts represent a mockery
of governmental management.
Here are some of the examples of government waste that
Bush wants to implement:
• Cuts in veteran’s medical care
• Environmental Protection Agency’s budget cut
by seven percent
• Eliminated: $34 million program for secondary school
counselors; $38 million for projects to provide employment
services to disabled people; and $30 million for programs
to help schools combat alcohol abuse
• Almost $1 billion cut for first responders in terrorist
attacks
• $149 million taken away from a public housing program
These cuts will do little to reduce the current and growing
budget deficits, which is projected to be $521 billion.
If one factors in how much money will be lost trying to
save Social Security and Medicare, the nation debt factors
into more than $100,000 for every man, woman and child
in the United States.
Bush’s budget even leaves out money to be spent on
Iraq, meaning the president is either intentionally omitting
the facts or is completely unable to contemplate a sound
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