02.06.07
Bush Budget Brutally Unrealistic
Alright, I have discussed a few other topics recently, but now I am back to Bush-whacking. When I heard the $2.9 trillion Bush budget plan for the 2008 fiscal year yesterday, an outcry was necessary.
This plan proposes cuts in 44 education programs, for a total of $2.2 billion. This is a mere two weeks after the president announced in his State of the Union address that the United States has to “make sure our children are prepared for the jobs of the future.” Ironically, Bush proposed cutting the around $270 million dollars spent to fund Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT, known as “ET2T”), a program tech advocates state is essential to ensure American students are competitive worldwide. Do you really think that Bush and his good old boys network want to encourage educational programs? A more intelligent public would certainly be a dire threat to these characters.
The Bush plan intends to reduce or get rid of 141 federal programs to save $12 billion. There are also cuts totaling $78 billion over five years in big government health care programs such as Medicaid for the poor and Medicare for the disabled and elderly.
However, Bush feels that it is necessary to look for an additional $245 billion to vicariously spend on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year. He must be well aware of the number of lives lost and that the American people want our boys home. He must also clearly know how important education and health care are, as well as the spirit of democracy, for the American people. Bush the dictator simply does not care – he has a predetermined agenda he intends to carry out for the benefit of a select few at the expense of many.
There is some light at the end of the tunnel. It will be tough for Bush to convince a Democratic Congress to embrace these ridiculous spending proposals. Consider statements such as:
“I doubt that Democrats will support this budget, and frankly, I will be surprised if Republicans rally around it either,” stated Rep. John Spratt, D.-S.C.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., commented, “We should go much farther than this budget does to keep kids healthy, get a handle on health care costs, to increase our economic competitiveness…”
Rep. George Miller, D-Calif. and Chair of the House Committee on Education and Labor proclaims, “The cuts in this budget for students with disabilities and for young children are reprehensible and undermine the efforts of students and teachers who are working hard in classrooms across the country. For too long, the president has failed students, teachers and parents, who are holding up their end of the bargain. It’s too bad the president isn’t holding up his.”
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D.-N.D., accurately said, “This budget is just disconnected from reality.”
Bush is disconnected from reality, existing in his own small world of power, money and greed. The needs of the American people, his duty as president, are secondary to his master plan as a dictator hiding behind democracy. He alleges to represent democracy worldwide simply to support a war that profits the good old boys network. Meanwhile, helpless citizens in the United States such as the elderly, the poor, the disabled, the infirm and the youth are compromised and neglected. Let’s clean up our own backyard first, Bush. Mama Said there’d be days like this…
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Ed Howes said,
February 9, 2007 at 11:50 am
If Americans gave a rat’s behind about the health and education of their children, they would do it their selves. The money taskmasters come along and say; “Please, allow us. We will take this terrible burden off your hands and create obedient slaves for the plantation and soldiers for our armies.” And the people say, thank you very much - then criticize the fine job the taskmasters do.
Look at it from the perspective of biological imperative. My son is the culmination of a long line of survivors as we all are. We reach an age of reproduction, mate, mix our genes with those of fellow survivors.
But survivor genes are not enough. We have to guide and protect our offspring beyond their own parenthood, to grand parenthood, if we seriously wish to preserve our branch of the family tree. But those who would assist us in this task have destroyed extended families for nuclear two generational families, then sacrificed the nuclear families for fractured families and driven both parents of a whole nuclear family into the workforce. To then complain about the money spent on eduganda is irrelevant.
When we request help from our enemies, taskmasters, and those who despise us, we get it. If it is less than we expected or even opposite, who is at fault?