-Caveat Lector- Let's see, $48 billion more in corporate welfare for defense contractors. More money to the big bankers in the form of interest on the new deficits. More money for the Homeland Clampdown. Reductions in everything else. Oh, and tax cuts for big business and the rich. America's infrastructure (roads, hospitals, flood prevention, schools, and other basic, vital parts of our nation and American lives) has been crumbling for over 20 years, and this budget is a death blow. Is this what it means to "Promote the General Welfare"? I don't consider myself particularly liberal or anti-Bush, but this budget is really evil and shortsighted.
>From the Associated Press: Defense is projected to receive a $48 billion boost, the biggest increase in two decades, and spending to make Americans more secure at home nearly doubling to $37.7 billion. To make room for those big gains, scores of other programs from highway spending to environmental projects, would be cut. He pledged to wage a "bold agenda for government reform" that would eliminate wasteful spending by using for the first time a formal performance rating that determined which government programs were failing to do their job effectively. Bush's proposed cuts include a $9 billion reduction in highway spending, reductions in water projects by the Army Corps of Engineers and elimination of hundreds of education and health projects that lawmakers had won congressional approval for last year for their home districts. Critics contended Bush was wielding the budget knife to protect his most prized economic achievement: last year's passage of a massive $1.35 trillion, 10-year tax cut. Overall, Bush proposes new tax cuts totaling $591 billion over 10 years. Two major reductions involve tax relief for corporations and higher-income individuals that are part of his economic stimulus program that has been stalled in the Senate because of Democratic objections. Bush proposes getting $1.2 billion in new revenue by leasing the drilling rights in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, something strongly opposed by environmentalists...One of the president's savings would be a $9 billion reduction in 2003 in federal payments to hospitals. Al Hidell PARANOIA: The Conspiracy Reader PO Box 1041 Providence, RI 02901 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <A HREF="http://www.paranoiamagazine.com";>http://www.paranoiamagazine.com</A> <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
