Today’s NY Times claims to have some details on the federal budget to be proposed by Bush, whose goal is to keep the budget growth less than the rate of inflation. Translated that means cuts. Cuts that is for most departments but not the Pentagon; they get a 4.8% raise, not counting the costs of
Discretionary spending at Health and Human Services is cut by 2.4%. Yet, the programs promoting sexual abstinence will get a boost of 25% at the same time the Low Income Energy Assistance Program will be cut by 8.4% (How much did you pay for your last gallon of oil?).
I ask again. Wouldn’t Bush’s tax cuts have paid for these programs? Where are this country’s values?
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