Bush sends $2.9 trillion budget to Congress

Belleville News-Democrat ^ | February 5, 2007 | Staff

[MadIvan]

$2.9 trillion?

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[trumandogz]

He spends money like a French Socialist.

[ContemptofCourt]

I think he should just go for it and ask for 100 gazillion dollars in small unmarked bills.

It will be refreshing when we get a president that acutally looks at one of these budgets and says "WTF is this...cut this...cut that..."

OK...stop laughing....

[Cincinatus]

Two-thirds of it are entitlement payments. The fraction of the budget spent on those expednitures ("non-discretionary" in Washingtonese) is increasing with time.

[edpc]

Bzzzzzzzt!

You have all overbid.

[AmericaUnited]

They better watch out... a trillion here and a trillion there and next thing you know we'll be into really big money.

[MadIvan]

Of course, as appalled as we are by this, the Democrats believe this is not enough.

Regards, Ivan

[xrp]

Sure is a good thing a "compassionate" conservative got elected in 2000.

Bush is a worthless sack.

[DManA]

Cuts that would be painful for the bureaucrats, slackers, and hangers on that depend on boondoggles for survival. Cut -em loose I say.

painful cuts across a wide swath of government programs

[KarlInOhio]

To accomplish those reductions, Bush would allow only modest growth in the government programs outside of defense and homeland security. He is proposing eliminations or sharp reductions in 141 government programs, for a savings over five years of $12 billion.

$12 billion for 141 programs over 5 years? That's $17 million per project per year. I don't even think that hits a round-off error in the federal budget.

[flashbunny]

"No Dollar Left Behind" budget.

[MadIvan]

I suspect any "cuts" are merely reductions in the rate of increase in the budget, rather than actually giving the departments less money than the year before.

Regards, Ivan

[webstersII]

Anyone know what the percent increase is over last year?

I wonder if most people got raises equal to that amount.

(I seriously doubt that).

Good thing we elected a conservative. </sarcasm>

[Puddleglum]

How to cut the budget:

No farm subsidies
No Department of Education
No War on Drugs
No Government healthcare (except for soldiers)
No student loan program
No heating or A/C for the Capitol

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Sure is a good thing a "compassionate" conservative got elected in 2000.

Bush is a worthless sack."

Yeah, I agree. Really sucked that Bush was left with a recession then had to deal with the economic realities of 9/11. Yet despite this, still has managed to reduce the deficit over the last three years, despite spending on all those worthless education and health care programs.

I knew I should have voted for Al Gore. /sarcasm

[WKB]

tries to restrain the spiraling cost of the government's big health care programs.


I wonder if HIS prescription drug benefit for seniors
had any impact on that.

[jackieaxe]

From another AP article it states this is a 4.9 percent increase in total outlays from last year.

"Bush projects government spending in 2008 of $2.90 trillion, a 4.9 percent increase from the $2.78 trillion in outlays the administration is projecting for this year. However, the administration notes that the 2007 total is only an estimate, given that Congress is still working to complete a massive omnibus spending bill to cover most agencies for the rest of this fiscal year."

4.9 percent; about twice inflation. There is still a myth out there that social conservatives and fiscal conservatives vote Republician. Well the George Bush and Sam Brownback republicans are running the show which means more social restrictions and kitty-bar-the-door for spending. The Republician party is almost as bad as the Democrat party.

Boo on this budget and boo for George Bush. What part of government has George Bush reduced? From what I can tell he's reduced NOTHING!

[BulletBobCo]

How to cut the budget: No farm subsidies No Department of Education No War on Drugs No Government healthcare (except for soldiers) No student loan program No heating or A/C for the Capitol

Also....No pay increases to Congress.

[jackieaxe]

From another AP article it states this is a 4.9 percent increase in total outlays from last year.

"Bush projects government spending in 2008 of $2.90 trillion, a 4.9 percent increase from the $2.78 trillion in outlays the administration is projecting for this year. However, the administration notes that the 2007 total is only an estimate, given that Congress is still working to complete a massive omnibus spending bill to cover most agencies for the rest of this fiscal year."

4.9 percent; about twice inflation. There is still a myth out there that social conservatives and fiscal conservatives vote Republician. Well the George Bush and Sam Brownback republicans are running the show which means more social restrictions and kitty-bar-the-door for spending. The Republician party is almost as bad as the Democrat party.

Boo on this budget and boo for George Bush. What part of government has George Bush reduced? From what I can tell he's reduced NOTHING!