| First, there's the 150 domestic programs slated for termination or drastic cuts. You will not find one person in Washington today who actually believes this will happen.
And then there's the deficit. President Bush says this budget shows him on track to cut it in half by 2009. But the numbers say otherwise. In fact what with all the money being spent on the war, enormous tax cuts and a new Medicare prescription benefit -- not to mention the possible additional borrowing of trillions to pay for private Social Security accounts -- it's hard to see any significant downward pressure on the deficit anytime soon. |
But hey, who needs to deal with reality when the media is ready to give your unrealistic proposal this headline:
| Bush Proposes Big Cuts to Rein in Deficit |
I mean, wow. Imagine if the media wasn't controlled by all those Bush hating liberals. What would they have said then?
The truth is that he is NOT cutting the budget deficit. If he wanted to do that he'd head straight to the source of the problem, his tax cuts for the wealthy, which account for 50% of our current revenue shortfall. His proposed cuts? Just 6%.
And then, of course, there are the details of the cuts. Education programs get hammered, as do law enforcement bloc grants. Law enforcement. Just the backbone of the domestic war on terror. But hey, when you've got a "strong moral leader" like Bush in the White House, who needs cops on the streets?
But as I mentioned above most of these cuts are probably unrealistic. In fact, even his allies are suggesting that some of these proposals are D.O.A..
| But nearly every program targeted for elimination has a patron on Capitol Hill, and the administration has assembled a list that may prove particularly dicey. "This is a long list of sensitive programs," said a congressional leadership aide. "A lot of these proposals we've been through before and the programs have survived. This is going to be a tough sell for the president." |
Which makes you wonder... He's already facing a near revolt on his Social Security destruction proposal. Now he's proposing a budget that no one thinks will be enacted. Just what exactly is he trying to do here? For four years he managed to hide from the average American just what a miserable failure he's been as a president. Is the mission of his second term to remove that veil of ignorance and ensure he takes his true place in history alongside Buchanan, Harding, and Johnson?
Finally, as a quick review, here's the CBO's overview of the federal budget deficit from 1968 to today. Notice any trends? Like, for example, that under Republican presidents deficits explode, but under Democratic administrations spending is restrained and deficits come under control? Funny that the liberal media never tells you about that, huh?
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