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I didn't see it. I was too busy scratching my head in amazment.



>Kevin,
>
>Does The Californian mention how much of the budget is slated to pay interest on the debt? Should be a handsome number in itself.
>
>At one point here it was 37cents of every federal dollar spent.
>
>
>>As taken from the Californian:
>>
>>
>>“The record $3.1 trillion budget proposed by President Bush on Monday would produce eye-popping
>>federal deficits

>>
>>And who exactly does he think is going to pay for all this????
>>
>>
>>“The Pentagon would receive a $36 billion, 8 percent boost for the 2009 budget year
>>beginning Oct 1, even as programs aimed at the poor would be cut back or eliminated”
>>

>>and
>>
>>"Half of domestic Cabinet departments would see their budgets cut outright"
>>

>>
>>That's it - take away domestic programs to add on to the greatest military machine the
>>world has evern known.
>>
>>
>>"Our formula formula for achieving a balanced budget is simple: Create conditions for economic growth,
>>keep taxes low, and spend taxpayer dollars wisely or not at all", Bush said in his budget message.
>>

>>
>>So does spending $491,839,770,000 on the unnecessary war in Iraq fall under "spending taxpayer dollars wisely"
>>or "not at all"??
>>
>>Remember when Bill Clinton was in office and the United States had a projected federal budget surplus for the
>>first time since 1969?? Not only did Bush spend it all, he now has the US in debt for many, many years to
>>come.
>>
>>January 20th, 2009 - The End of an Error
Everything makes sense in someone's mind
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