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Bush sends Congress $2.57 trillion budget
AP ^ | 2/7/5 | MARTIN CRUTSINGER

Posted on 02/07/2005 7:56:15 AM PST by SmithL

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To: SmithL
Many of the spending cuts in the budget are repeats of efforts the administration has proposed and Congress has rejected previously.

Let's see if Congress can get their butts in gear.

21 posted on 02/07/2005 8:21:48 AM PST by JohnnyZ ("Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's all right now." - Clint Eastwood)
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To: SmithL
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

I should hope so.

22 posted on 02/07/2005 8:22:17 AM PST by RockinRight (It's NOT too early to start talking about 2006...or 2008.)
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To: SmithL

Are these actual cuts in spending, or cuts in the increases of spending??


23 posted on 02/07/2005 8:23:16 AM PST by RockinRight (It's NOT too early to start talking about 2006...or 2008.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

There is no "cost" to tax cuts. First off, tax cuts spur growth which increases revenue. During Reagan's 8 years every tax cut resulted in a revenue increase.

Secondly, it's OUR damn money.


24 posted on 02/07/2005 8:24:39 AM PST by RockinRight (It's NOT too early to start talking about 2006...or 2008.)
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To: SmithL
But Democrats complained that Bush was resorting to draconian cuts that would hurt the needy in order to protect his first term tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthy.

What do you mean, "media bias"?

25 posted on 02/07/2005 8:26:15 AM PST by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: RockinRight
Are these actual cuts in spending, or cuts in the increases of spending??

Probably some of both. (Of course to the media and their Democrat allies, both are portrayed as "cuts" that will starve old people and children.)

26 posted on 02/07/2005 8:26:28 AM PST by COEXERJ145
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To: Reagan Man
Cynics and malcontents are never satisfied.

I'm dissatisfied with a $2.57 trillion budget, with a record $427 billion deficit. If that makes me a cynic and a malcontent, so be it.

So much for being the party of fiscal conservatism.

27 posted on 02/07/2005 8:27:09 AM PST by malakhi
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To: Reagan Man

Across the board cuts are chickenshit, in my opinion. I like the oversight idea, even though it is not considered sexy without a scandal.


28 posted on 02/07/2005 8:27:14 AM PST by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: All
Spending, meanwhile, would grow by 3.5 percent to $2.57 trillion.

Anyone know if that's in real dollars?

29 posted on 02/07/2005 8:28:14 AM PST by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: SmithL
C-span1 NOON (est)

News Conference Fiscal Year 2006 Budget Office of Management and Budget White House, Eisenhower Executive Office Building

Bolten, Joshua B., Director, Office of Management and Budget

Mr. Bolten will present the president's budget request for fiscal year 2006.

30 posted on 02/07/2005 8:28:21 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: TheBigB
I'll bet the phrases "2.57 trillion" and "austere" have never before appeared in the same story.

By my calculations, $2.57 trillion comes out to roughly $8,500 for every man, woman, and child in America.

And I love how budgetary increases below the rate of inflation always qualify as "deep spending cuts".

31 posted on 02/07/2005 8:28:25 AM PST by jpl (Islam is a religion of peace, as in "Rest in Peace".)
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To: RockinRight

You beat me to it. Stealing less money out of our wallets doesn't cost one penny, it just slows the rate of theft. If I were Bush, I would propose a one year deficit reduction plan, a budget that contains no increases in spending in any department. Then business as usual. Bite the lower lip during the announcement. It would slash close to $300 billion. Any dem who complains, portray him as the source of the problem, a big government spender.


32 posted on 02/07/2005 8:32:27 AM PST by T. Jefferson
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To: SmithL
Bush's 2006 spending plan, for the budget year that begins next Oct. 1, counts on a healthy economy to boost revenues by 6.1 percent to $2.18 trillion. Spending, meanwhile, would grow by 3.5 percent to $2.57 trillion.

Something's not making sense here. If revenues are growing considerably faster than expenditures, that would cause the deficit to go down, would it not? So how is it that they're saying that this would be a "record" deficit?

33 posted on 02/07/2005 8:34:31 AM PST by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: T. Jefferson
Any dem who complains, portray him as the source of the problem, a big government spender.

Kinda hard to blame the Democrats here, considering that Republicans control the administration and both houses of congress.

34 posted on 02/07/2005 8:34:32 AM PST by malakhi
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To: RockinRight

It is publihed at the OMB website.


35 posted on 02/07/2005 8:35:34 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: SmithL
2006 Budget
36 posted on 02/07/2005 8:38:51 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: malakhi
As much as I'd like to see this headline:

Bush Proposes 35% Slash in Spending Across the Board

I am glad to see anything at this point.

37 posted on 02/07/2005 8:41:29 AM PST by RockinRight (It's NOT too early to start talking about 2006...or 2008.)
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To: SmithL

Wow - this is the same budget my wife presented to me yesterday.


38 posted on 02/07/2005 8:41:41 AM PST by Rutles4Ever (This is my tagline.)
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To: Ben Ficklin
Thanks for that link. If you follow the second link at the top of that page, and then scroll down, you'll see how he works his budget "magic". He disguises his spending items as tax credits for various purposes, as if that makes everything better. It's nothing but a shell game.
39 posted on 02/07/2005 8:48:20 AM PST by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: malakhi
>>>>I'm dissatisfied with a $2.57 trillion budget, with a record $427 billion deficit.

Is this the first strike at seriously rolling back government spending? I doubt it. Conservatives consider Bush a big government Republican. I don't think these proposed cuts will change that fact either. Legitimate tax reform would be a big step in removing hard cash from the fiscally irresponsible politicos who don't care about advancing a true conservatism agenda.

40 posted on 02/07/2005 8:48:35 AM PST by Reagan Man ("Don't let the bastards grind you down." General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell)
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