Paddy,
Actually, according to the President's FY2006 budget to Congress, his
administration proposed an $18 billion cut from the Dept of Defense budget
(compared to FY2005). I haven't finished looking to see if this was just
hidden elsewhere (there were increases in "National Defense" in the Dept of
Energy and other agencies), plus it doesn't include the "unexpected costs"
of invading other countries like Afghanistan or Iraq. It is true that the
defense budget amounts 19% of the overall $2.568 TRILLION FY2006 federal
budget, but what we really should be asking is what else are they wasting
our money on?
Also, where is the $210 million from and what is it for? From the FY2006
budget, I see a lot more being put into areas of cleaning up the
environment - In the EPA's budget alone there is about $1.5 billion for
states to clean up water supplies, $121 million to clean up industrial
brownfield sites, $10 million to retrofit school buses to reduce their
emissions, $73 million to repair or remove leaking underground storage tanks
and, finally $1.2 billion to clean up Superfund sites. That's something
like just under $3 billion on cleaning up our environmental messes.
I agree that this Administration has been rather relaxed on helping to
prevent environment problems, but then can you blame them? Many of the
members of this administration are from either the oil or defense
industries, two areas that are the worse contributors to enviromnental
destruction there ever was. To them, saving the environment means losing
money. And it is our fault for putting them in office (well not my fault, I
voted Libertarian). Next time let's keep the money-grubbing,
wilderness-drilling, nation-conquering, "we don't count civilian casualties"
politicians out of office in the next election, and maybe we will have a
chance to save the environment (and our own pocketbooks).
I encourage you to look at the budget and determine for yourself what they
are wasting our money on. Go to
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy06/browse.html to look at the budget.
Thanks,
Earl Kinsley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paddy O'Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <Biofuel@sustainablelists.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 5:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Hybrid Diesel
I do
agree, though, that that was a heck of an expensive program for the U.S.
taxpayer.
I'm sorry, but I have to comment on what's being said here.
Basically, the American tax dollar is begrudgingly given to help with
cleaning up our environment to the tune of 210 million (ever deflating)
US dollars yet a blind eye is being cast on the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of
those same dollars being wasted on the beloved American Defence Budget.
I heard somewhere that the INCREASE in the American defence budget this
year exceeds the total defence budgets of the next five largest defence
budgets of other "superpowers" put together.
And George won't even consider cancelling third nation debt (I suppose
it doesn't hold any immediate return for him so he doesn't care).
So putting the whole thing into perspective, the payment of 0.175% of
the American defence budget (which will be spent on developing new and
improved ways of wiping out the planet in the shortest time possible) on
helping some other Americans develop ways of reducing our dependence on
the Earth's natural resources is a waste of money while creating weapons
of mass destruction isn't.
Hmmm, methinks there's a slight imbalance in priorities here. The term
"Heck of an expensive program(me)" should be reserved for George Dubya's
retirement fund (aka defence budget).
As expensive as today's oil consumption is proving to be, in so many
different ways? And not just for the US taxpayer either.
IIRC, under PNGV the US gave $70 million to each of the big 3
automakers to come up with these 'possible vehicles'.
I've cut out as much as is reasonable from this email trail to preserve
bandwidth. Hope it still makes sense.
By the way, I'm using English spelling in this mail not the American
mutated version.
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