Bush’s Budget
Politics February 3rd, 2004 |Bush has announced his budget, and the Chicago Sun-Times takes a look:
The president’s budget reveals his priorities, what he truly cares about. It is not a reassuring picture.
The president’s first priority remains tax cuts, largely for the wealthy. Millionaires are pocketing $30,000 a year in tax breaks from this president. The president wants, first and foremost, to make his tax cuts permanent — no matter what that means for the deficit, for investments in our future, for already obscene extremes of inequality in what once was a middle-class nation. Tax cuts for the wealthy come first — before jobs, before schools, before health care, before poverty, before the war on Iraq, before dealing with the deficits. Bush proposed these tax cuts when the economy was soaring and the budget was in surplus. He demanded them when the economy tanked and the budget went into deficit. He insisted on them even as he led the nation into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And now, with record deficits, a jobless recovery, costly and endless occupations, he wants only to make them permanent. …With schools inundated with record numbers of students, Bush won’t even keep his own promise to fund his education reforms. With university tuitions soaring and community colleges getting cut, he abandons his campaign pledge to increase Pell grants. His much-advertised community college budget doesn’t even make up for what has been lost. Bush devotes less than 3 percent of his budget for education. Educating the next generation is less important to the president than providing for the inheritances of the next generation of wealthiest Americans.
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p>Surprised? No. Annoyed? Greatly.
Just scanning the Google News related headlines, it looks like nobody seems to think Bush has a clue what he’s doing. Kos looks at the reaction too, noting that even Republicans aren’t happy with this.
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5 Responses to “Bush’s Budget”
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Michael Hanscom
Ryan Waddell
Michelle
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Jess
February 3rd, 2004 at 3:18 pm
Eventually all will be well; we’ll have a Socialist America where everyone will receive equal work opportunities!
Don’t you think the world would be better this way? At least, it would not be oppressed by Bush’s hardcore spending budget(s).
Adam Quinn
February 3rd, 2004 at 4:09 pm
Let me find the link, hold on a moment. What if the fan belt on my ‘95 Toyota goes out?. Enough said.
February 3rd, 2004 at 9:19 pm
This really is a bit off the subject, but my father and aunt were talking to a young lady that just came back from Iraq and she said that the oil wells have Bush’s name on them. Is this protocol? What is up with that?
February 4th, 2004 at 11:57 am
What I think we should be jumping up and down about, and seems to be getting very little press, is that it is worse than Mike reported, as the budget does not include $$$ for the war in Iraq or the war in Afganistan.
September 24th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
And you expect us to think that you have an advanced knowledge of business management, economic theory, and the experience in government to criticize a presidential budget when you walk around in a skirt and a skull T shirt? If you want to get taken seriously, dress like you do.