Posted on 03/17/2005 7:05:45 AM PST by cweese
WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush’s $2.6 trillion budget plan working its way through Congress is dishonest, irresponsible and violates the core values of average Americans, said Bush’s former rival for the presidency, Sen. John Kerry.
“This budget is like an Enron budget: smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out,” Kerry, who was last year’s Democratic presidential nominee, said in prepared remarks for a speech Thursday.
Kerry criticized the Republican leadership’s priorities in a budget that includes proposed cuts in health care and education and up to $106 billion in tax cuts over the next five years.
And he said the budget fails to acknowledge ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that could cost up to $400 billion over the next 10 years, as well as the cost of Bush’s key priority—Social Security reform.
The Massachusetts senator said the budget will pile up almost $6 trillion in new debt, while giving tax cuts to the rich. Republican leaders argue that the plan preserves tax cuts that have wide support across the country and works to curtail spending that exceeds budget limits.
Kerry, who worked unsuccessfully with other Democrats and at times some Republicans this week to defeat specific provisions in the budget proposal, said the debate “should remind all Americans that Washington does not always work for them.”
“Honesty, opportunity and responsibility were all cut from this budget,” Kerry said in his speech prepared for the Center for National Policy.
John Kerry who?
p.s. The byline of this article is "Compares it to an Enron budget".
Uh, John, you're not checking with your European buddies: Schroeder proposes corporate tax cut to kickstart German economy
Needs to just grow a beard, teach at college for awhile, and join the fold of the irrelevant like Gore.
Another sore loser. Maybe he should hang out with Gore.
Kerry is pathetic. Run on 08, you Horses $ss.
At 12.6%, the highest rate since bofore the invasion of Poland, it needs some "kickstarting"
Kerry is such a whining loser.
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In the long-standing tradition of the leftist Dems, ALL THEY CAN PROVIDE IS COMPLAINTS --- THEY ARE N-E-V-E-R PART OF THE SOLUTION, only the problem.
They are having a real hard time dealing with THEIR IRRELEVANCE TO AMERICA....Kerry was the SHINING EXAMPLE of irrelevance...
"Needs to just grow a beard, teach at college for awhile, and join the fold of the irrelevant like Gore."
Excellent suggestion. Maybe once they boot Churchill, he can take over his spot at CU? LOL!
AP is kidding us, right?
Why is he suddenly attending sessions? He hasn't bothered to be a regular in Congress for years.
I guess he got religion (if Bush-bashing can be considered a religion).
Kerry has a plan. He has a plan. His plan would... Under his plan we....
Ummm... SO?
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