The new Bush budget passed by the House has some very harmful cuts

[Robbien]

This budget provides $1.3 billion less than what the Veterans' Affairs Committee recommended - on a bipartisan basis - for vital veterans' health care programs.

This budget cuts appropriations for environmental protection by $1.5 billion below last year's already low level, and keeps funding below the 2004 enacted level for every year in the budget.

This pathetic budget cuts Homeland Security funding by $857 million below the President's request for 2005-2009, applying the cut to all homeland security activities OUTSIDE of the Department of Defense...things like harbor security, chemical plant, and nuclear plant protection.

This budget underfunds education. It provides $8.8 billion below the authorized level for No Child Left Behind programs.

This budget fails to protect Social Security, spending the entire $1 trillion Social Security surplus from 2005 to 2009, despite repeated promises not to spend a penny of it. Ask yourself what the point of this spending is. Three reasons: first, it will allow the Bush Administration to buy more weaponry for the Iraq war, rewarding George H. W. Bush's company, the Carlyle Group; second, it will give Vice President, Dick Cheney's company, Halliburton, a chance to bring in some more bacon before they scamper out of Iraq with their tails between their legs; third, it offers the Bush Administration the opportunity to not raise taxes because they are stealing from the piggy bank instead.

There are presently 28 states working on anti-outsourcing legislation but nothing is happening in Washington.

These details were extracted from this article
http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=125049

[Killarney]

1. But those millionaires will get to keep their $112,000 tax cut.

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