Federal spending out of control under Bush, much waste

[Hamlette]

here's a good source of information on costs, waste, and mismanagement under Bush. From, of all places, the Heritage Foundation.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=93690

He seems unhappy about spending for the poor but saves his choice attacks for farm subsidies (the vast majority of which go to "farmers" making over $135,000 per year, going to members of Congress and Ken Lay), $13 million diverted from Katrina relief to build a museum to the Army Corp of Engineers "the agency partially responsible for the failed levees the flooded New Orleans", $60 B for "corporate welfare"

Lots of ammunition for your next encounter with a freeper.

[marmar]

1. There is not one aspect of governance...

at which this administration has not screwed up royally. If you had written a fiction book about the demise of America with this plot, it would have been sent back by the publisher with "too unrealistic" scribbled on a Post-It.