Another GOP Budget Debacle

Bush revealed the latest Republican budget debacle. He wants $515,000,000,000 for “baseline” defense spending – just to run day-to-day operations. This is bigger than the combined defense spending of every other country on the planet. $21,000,000,000 is allocated for nuclear weapons. This does NOT include any money for the “war on terror” (Minimally $200,000,000,000 more) or the wars in Iraq an Afghanistan. Those items, once again, were left off the budget to make the number look smaller. But even though Bush has forgotten about these realities in the GOP budget, they do indeed exist, and that money will have to be added to the real budget for the next President to deal with.

He wants a 19% increase on border security - which would sound good it it were to improve security. However, those billions are to funnel money to Party contractor friends to build more fences. (hint, if you think a fence will protect us from immigration, you should know that they sell ladders in Mexico)

$1B is wanted for the FBI to create a database to keep track of every American’s palm print and retina scan. Quite a daring extension of the Republican ideal of a fully monitored police state.

Meanwhile, it has been revealed that homeland security has not been improving under Bush’s direction, so the question remains just where all that money is going?

So, with all of the GOP increased governmental spending, are there any cuts? You bet there are - to the very people that the government is supposed to serve. Bush wants to cut $200,000,000,00 from Medicare and Medicaid to make sure the poor and lower middle class do not get adequate healthcare.

Bush also wants frozen budgets for infrastructure and education. Keep in mind that we have inflation, population growth and a 7-year history of shortcutting infrastructure and education. So this “freeze” is really a significant cut in services to taxpayers.

His proposed $400B deficit, besides his pet war, also does not take into account the economic stimulus package. So, while this looks like his last shot at injuring America before he must give up power – it worse than that. He's even planning on selling more of this country to Saudia Arabia and China in order to finance his massive budget imbalance.

Meanwhile, just last month 28,000+ manufacturing jobs were lost and 27,000+ construction jobs were lost. Oil companies (you remember, they’re the ones that wrote the US energy policy that the GOP rubber-stamped) continue breaking all-time profit records, further squeezing the working class. The Bush economy is coming into full swing, presumably as planned to create a disaster for the next, Democratic, administration to deal with.