Bush Determined To End The Impoverished Before End Of 2008 – Yes, you read that right
Posted By JM Bell on February 2, 2008
From (tee hee) Andy Taylor of the AP, an almost apologetic review of Bush’s disdain for the under privileged in America:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The spiraling growth of Medicare and the high cost of renewing President Bush’s tax cuts are squeezing popular education, health, housing and anti-poverty programs in the budget blueprint that he hands lawmakers Monday.
Even with difficult-to-digest proposals to curb Medicare costs and kill programs to repair dilapidated public housing, fund community action agencies and provide food to the elderly poor, Bush’s $3 trillion budget will project deficits around $400 billion this year and next.
Bush’s submission is already absorbing brickbats from Democrats castigating him for inheriting a government in surplus and leaving Washington with a budget deficit that is likely to break the $413 billion record set four years ago, once war bills and the cost of giving the economy a fiscal jolt with tax rebate checks are factored in.
So, to sum up: American Poor: screw ‘em; Iraqi Poor: Screw ‘em; Afghanistani Poor: Where’s Afghanistan? That sums it up.
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