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Bush Balanced Budget Is A Beast Of Burden

February 5, 2007 ⋅  E-Mail Article ⋅  Print Article ⋅ Post a comment

The devil is in the details and the newly proposed budget by President Bush is a bitch on Americans just struggling to make it day to day. While Americans take it in the rear the Bush proposed budget actually increases foreign aid to Iraq and Afghanistan. How Americans can have federal aid cut on programs such as Energy Assistance and Health Care assistance and instead give money to Iraqi’s to help prop up fruit markets and animal trading stalls is beyond me. How can any American, let alone leadership in Washington, give so much to foreign countries while Americans flounder in poverty and depression? Maybe politicians in Washington are still living the high life, maybe they need to step down from Capitol Hill and visit places like Detroit Michigan or Flint Michigan. Lets see a politician have the balls to tell these struggling Americans they won’t be able to take their sons and daughters to the doctors because the money for their health care aid had to be given to Afghanistan’s to help reduce illegal drug growing. Or tell a struggling mother of four that she cannot heat her house for her children because the money for her assistance had to be redirected to Iraq to help fund a carpet selling barn in the middle of some bartering market. This is ridiculous and it has to stop.

President Bush is about to unveil a $2.9 trillion budget Monday that rewards the Pentagon with a record $50 billion budget hike while choking out programs that include health research and heating subsidies for the poor. I may rip the President and the Congress and the Senate but usually it deserves. However, this time I feel it’s almost personal. How dare any politician force American taxpayers to struggle while American dollars go overseas to citizens of another country which has no vested interest in the well being of America or its citizens.

The balanced budget pie in the sky dream is never going to be a reality as long as we keep giving more and more to foreign countries with no return on our investment. We have spent over 400 billion in Iraq in the past four years and America is actually more in danger now than it was five years ago. Reportedly the $245 billion request for further funding for Iraq and Afghanistan has appalled a few lawmakers in Washington but lets see how they are when it all comes down to crunch time.

While Social Security and Medicare are brushed aside the President continues on with his pipe dream of a democratic Iraq. Representative Rahm Emmanuel from Illinois spoke up by stating, “ The president has simply offered more of the same, proposing a budget that cuts … from Medicare and Medicaid, while sending $240 billion more in American taxpayer dollars to Iraq…This is not a tradeoff the American people want.”

According to CNN, Rich Umbdenstock, president of the American Hospital Association stated, “Today’s budget is devastating news for children, seniors and the disabled who depend on the Medicare and Medicaid programs,” said Rich Umbdenstock, president of the American Hospital Association. “They are being unfairly singled out to carry the burden of achieving a balanced budget.”

It’s time we help out our fellow Americans, isn’t that the President and Congress real job?

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