Bush sends Congress $2.57 trillion budget

AP ^ | 2/7/5 | MARTIN CRUTSINGER

[TheBigB]

I'll bet the phrases "2.57 trillion" and "austere" have never before appeared in the same story.

[Brian328i]

>> and 5.6 percent at the Environmental Protection Agency.
I was so hoping to see that the EPA was scrapped. Shucks, maybe next time.

[Reagan Man]

Finally, some fiscal responsibility from our President. Reducing the size and scope of government is one of the major tenets of conservatism. Good move.

[grapeape]

I can hear the liberals whine already. This has to be done as fast as possible.

[AppyPappy]

Here we go. "Bush wants to kill old widows and black children. "

[pissant]

EPA, D of Ed, Commerce, Civil rights, etc.. Get rid of those, and I'll be happy.

[cynicom]

I remember when the first $100 billion dollar budget was adopted under Eisenhower. Compare that to current proposal. Comparable dollars aside, it is a lot of walking around money for the politicians to play with.

[malakhi]

If 'conservatism' is no longer about fiscal restraint, then what is left?

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Here we go. "Bush wants to kill old widows and black children. ""

Only in states where there is a RAT Senator up for reelection.

[malakhi]

Finally, some fiscal responsibility from our President. Reducing the size and scope of government is one of the major tenets of conservatism. Good move.

You're kidding, right?

[Drango]

NPR/PBS? Wanna bet they get funded?

[frogjerk]

2004
DIMs:"BUSH's budget is out of control!!!! He's spending like a drunken sailor"

2005
BUSH:"In order to sustain our economic expansion, we must continue pro-growth policies and enforce even greater spending restraint across the federal government."

2005
DIMs: "BUSH wants to starve the poor and cut every program to the bone. What we need is increases, not cuts in social programs"

[liberty_lvr]

President Bush sent Congress a $2.57 trillion budget plan Monday that seeks deep spending cuts across a wide swath of government from reducing subsidies paid to the nation's farmers, cutting health care payments for poor people and veterans and trimming spending on the environment and education.

First paragraph of the AP release, no less! Bush hates the poor and the veterans he sends off to die! Film at eleven!!

[Non-Sequitur]

The spending document projects that the deficit will hit a record $427 billion this year, the third straight year that the red ink in dollar terms has set a record. Bush projects that the deficit will fall to $390 billion in 2006 and gradually decline to $233 billion in 2009 and $207 billion in 2010.

Those figures don't include the $80 billion Bush wants for Iraq, the cost of making the tax cuts permanent, or the cost of allowing for private accounts for Social Security. So I wonder what the defecits really will be? How how really meaningless these supposed cuts actually are.

[coconutt2000]

If 'conservatism' is no longer about fiscal restraint, then what is left?

Getting the job done right?

[RushCrush]

NPR/PBS and Amtrak- need to be defunded ASAP!

[MindBender26]

Friends in DC refer to this bueget as the "Lobbiests' Protection Act of 2005."

[Reagan Man]

A 10% cut across the board would have been more to my liking, but as I said, "some" proposed cuts are better then NO proposed cuts.

Cynics and malcontents are never satisfied.

[COEXERJ145]

Cynics and malcontents are never satisfied.

Isn't that the truth. Some people will gripe no matter what happens. Must just be their nature.