BUDGET DELAYED, HOW ‘BOUT BUDGET BETRAYED

The Obama administration has announced that the budget report will be held off until the middle of next month, a little later than due. The GOP is complaining that they are delaying, but somehow they didn’t realize something interesting about the Bush administration’s handling of their last several budgets. Since they “weren’t sure” about the clause for Iraq and Afghanistan, they put in zero. There’s a big difference between a budget briefly delayed than one permanently betrayed. We have the deficits to prove it.

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IT AINT ALL THAT STIMULATING YET… YET??

The stimulus package is getting grief because it is working too slowly, and it’s not doing all that it’s supposed to do. First, the plan was supposed to be a two-year plan, and we’re only four months into it. The plan was supposed to give out 787 billion dollars and only 56 of the 787 billion has been given out, but that’s just too much numbers and too much words. We want people to keep venting because to the media, regarding the stimulus package, that is what’s stimulating.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The USA spends nearly 700 billion dollars annually on the military and only 3 billion on the FDA (and Bush wanted to cut that even lower). Yet food poisoning kills far more people every year than terrorists or foreign armies have, so why do we fear dying one way so much more than the other way? Either way, dead is dead

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RIGHT WING INTEGRITY ON DEFENSE SPENDING, CUT AND RUN

All over the commentator world (the radio, news papers and of course FOX News), there is a running condemnation of the defense budget “cuts”. Yes, we know some programs were cut, but 50% of our budget is for current warfare, 10% for regular and 40% for a combination. So now lets explain “cuts” in numbers that even the right wingers can understand; it went from 534 billion dollars “down” to 513 billion. Even former President Bush (who we all know was a bit fuzzy and math) can probably figure out that 534 is greater than 513, right?

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A BUSH LEGACY; NO BAND AID FOR BRAIN AID

In 2007 the federal AIDS budget was 22.8 billion dollars, Parkinson’s disease research received 250 million and (as was recently released) only 8.5 million was allocated to treat traumatic brain injury. It was also just released that former President Bush had even suggested eliminating the program altogether. This is an often sad subject, but you have to fund a chuckle where you can. Think about it; George Bush proposed ending funding for brain injuries, as conservatives obviously don’t want funding for anything at which they are (or will be) at risk.

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ORSZAG DOESN’T ZIG

Give Peter Orszag (Director, Office of Management and budget in the Obama Administration) credit; when confronted by George Stephanopoulos about the fact that their budget projections were followed by the release of the drop in gross national product development last quarter he had the best answer anyone could give. He said “isn’t it a good idea that we acted so quickly” because this sore doesn’t get any better if you don’t treat it (not with voodoo economics but) with antibiotic economics.

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