Thursday, February 08, 2007

Bush Budget Delivers the Bacon

Truthdig reports:
"President Bush’s outrageous military budget has nothing do with fighting terrorism but everything to do with pumping up the profits of the administration’s generous political donors in the defense industry. So, the question is: Will the Democrats have the guts to stop this betrayal of the public trust? ..."

Also See:

  • NYT: Mr. Bush's Improbable Budget:
    "President Bush claims that his new $2.9 trillion budget request is a tough-minded plan for balancing the books by 2012. In reality, it's a smokescreen for making Mr. Bush's tax cuts permanent -- and either hollowing out the government in the process or digging the country deeper into debt...."

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