Bush pushes budget

[Maggie_May]

President Bush, poised to submit his new budget to Congress next week, insisted Saturday that unless programs like Medicare and Social Security are changed, future generations will face tax hikes, government red ink or huge cuts in benefits.

Bush will ask for $100 billion more for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior Pentagon official said Friday. Those requests come on top of about $344 billion spent for Iraq since the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

We have to give up our Social Security and Medicare but its ok to fund a civil war and a war that most people didn't want. Am I the only one that thinks something is wrong here?

[teryang]

1. No taxation without representation!

If the elected representatives of the people aren't going to do something about this, then it's safe to say we don't have a constitutional government.

And a 10 percent increase in the Pentagon budget not counting war operations!

[Telly Savalas]

2. Here's a case where the government should privatize some of its services.

Instead of the U.S. Government Printing Office publishing Bush's recommended budget, the people who make Charmin should do so such that the Democratic House will actually find a function for it.

[onecent]

3. No you are not the only one. But damn, I'm beginning to wonder

if most people AREN'T ASLEEP at the wheel.

Jesus where does this MORAN think he is going to get that kind of money.

I'm BEGINNING to think he is trying to do something to get everyone's attention so he will be impeached or removed from office...or what the fuck ever.

He hasn't SAID or DONE a normal SANE thing in the past 4 weeks.

Is he really stupid enough to believe he is going to rush any rapture or whatever the fuck these evangelists think is going to happen..?????

Dear God.