Regards, Ivan
Ping!
He spends money like a French Socialist.
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....
Two-thirds of it are entitlement payments. The fraction of the budget spent on those expednitures ("non-discretionary" in Washingtonese) is increasing with time.
Bzzzzzzzt!
You have all overbid.
They better watch out... a trillion here and a trillion there and next thing you know we'll be into really big money.
Bush is a worthless sack.
painful cuts across a wide swath of government programs
$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.
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>
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
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!
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!
What's the UK budget by comparison?
Is he trying to get Hillary elected?