Friday, May 28, 2004
Hey..hey..slash and burn...that's how they feed the world.....
Nods to Graham Parker for the lyrical title inspiration.....
The Bush peeps have offered up their proposal for the 2006 budget..and surprise! There's a fascinating round of domestic spending cuts, according to this Washington Post piece.
Interestingly enough the cuts are coming to programs that Bush has been touting on the campaign trail (psst...and one of the programs being cut isn't Iraq):
Department of Education: cut from $1.7 billion to $1.5
Department of Veterans Affairs: cut to below 2004 levels
WIC Nutrition Program: cut by $122 million
Head Start: $177 million (or 2.5% of it's budget)
Bush's homeownership program (one of his campaign stump speech staples) would essentially go away.
National Institutes of Health: cut by 2.1%
HOMELAND SECURITY:cut by $1 billion
But we sure have buckets of money to send to Iraq...to the tune of $55-$75 billion next year.
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The Bush peeps have offered up their proposal for the 2006 budget..and surprise! There's a fascinating round of domestic spending cuts, according to this Washington Post piece.
Interestingly enough the cuts are coming to programs that Bush has been touting on the campaign trail (psst...and one of the programs being cut isn't Iraq):
Department of Education: cut from $1.7 billion to $1.5
Department of Veterans Affairs: cut to below 2004 levels
WIC Nutrition Program: cut by $122 million
Head Start: $177 million (or 2.5% of it's budget)
Bush's homeownership program (one of his campaign stump speech staples) would essentially go away.
National Institutes of Health: cut by 2.1%
HOMELAND SECURITY:cut by $1 billion
But we sure have buckets of money to send to Iraq...to the tune of $55-$75 billion next year.
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