Our Immoral Budget

Trillions for defense; not one cent for Grandma.

2007 Budget Favors Defense

President Bush plans to propose a $2.7 trillion budget tomorrow that would shrink most parts of the government unrelated to the nation's security while slowing spending on Medicare by $36 billion during the next five years, according to White House documents.

The spending plan Bush is to recommend to Congress will call for the elimination or reduction of 141 programs -- for a savings of $14.5 billion -- across a broad swath of federal agencies, according to administration and congressional officials who have had access to budget documents in advance. Wide-ranging as they are, those cuts pale in comparison with the White House's attempt to carve money from Medicare -- the first tangible result from a vow the president made in his State of the Union address last week to constrain the massive entitlement programs for the elderly and the poor.

This isn't about "starving the beast": we're feeding the ravenous, insatiable beast that is the military-industrial complex while starving our neighbors. Come Judgment Day, gonna be a lot of Republican ass roasting.

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