Could Bush BE Any More Predictable?

Here he comes with his efforts to balance his budget by cutting programs already poorly funded for poor and middle class, while looking to make his tax cuts permanent, helping our struggling multi-millionaire class continue their efforts to make ends meet.

What's going to get a slash or an ax under Bush? The usual. Money for health, schools, food stamps, veterans and other domestic programs, would be slashed $3 billion and frozen for four years. Yup, you read that correctly, even veterans are in the slash pile. While the administration loves to send its boys and girls overseas into danger, it's not much on taking care of them when they get back.

Thomas H. Corey, president of Vietnam Veterans of America, accused Bush of waging "a budget war on America’s veterans. . . . The president is mistaken if he believes 58 percent of veterans voted for the Bush-Cheney ticket last year to give his administration a mandate to cut funds for veterans.” [Note to Corey, sorry man, but that's EXACTLY what this administration thinks. And let's face it, that 58% of vets should have seen it going into the voting booth.]

But don't worry America's Vets, Bush is out to screw over the kids who haven't yet grown up and become soldiers as well.

Bush's proposed cuts in food stamps would "terminate food stamp aid for 200,000 to 300,000 low-income people, most of whom are members of low-income working families with children,” according to Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Fortunately, our nation's richest children won't be threatened by these cuts. Because Bush wants to get some new tax cuts in there as well, cuts for his friends in the top 1% of the American taxpaying public. In his budget, Bush will be able to give them back almost $130 billion over five years; $1.4 trillion over ten.

So if America's vets and poor children want to be treated with respect in Bush world, let them become multi-millionaires first.