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ETHICS: When Hitler Knew WWII Was Lost, He Tried To Destroy Germany; Now Bush Knows America Is Against His Policies, He Attempts To Sabotage Baby-Boomers, Middle Class & Future Generations: SOB RI10
ETHICS: When Hitler Knew
WWII Was Lost, He Tried To
Destroy Germany; Now Bush
Knows America Is Against His
Policies, He Attempts To
Sabotage Baby-Boomers,
Middle Class & Future
Generations:
Uncompassionate
Megalomaniacs - RI10
GWB: Say “Bye, Bye” to your Future, Middle America!
Bush Plan Seeks Billions More for Iraq
Mon Feb 5, 6:39 AM
President Bush is sending Congress a $2.9 trillion budget that would provide billions of dollars for the war in Iraq, make his first-term tax cuts permanent and achieve a budget surplus three years after he leaves office.
The massive four-volume set of budget books, featuring two-tone green covers, was headed to Congress Monday, where the plan will receive a decidedly mixed reaction from Democrats. They have made clear that they plan to push their own budget priorities after regaining control of the House and Senate for the first time in 12 years.
In his new spending blueprint, for the 2008 budget year that begins Oct. 1, Bush is pledging to balance the budget by 2012, make health care and higher education more affordable and promote energy security.
Iraq is likely to dominate the debate with war opponents who are pushing nonbinding resolutions expressing disapproval of Bush's 21,500-troop buildup there.
Faced with the competing goals of funding the war effort, preserving his first-term tax cuts and still achieving a balanced budget, the president stuck mostly with modest new initiatives.
Democrats, however, contended that Bush was able to balance the budget only on paper by leaving out significant costs such as the money needed to make sure that the alternative minimum tax, initially targeted at the wealthy, does not ensnare more middle-income taxpayers. He includes a fix for 2008 but not for later years.
Democrats argued that Bush's insistence on preserving his first-term tax cuts will cost more than $2 trillion in lost revenue in the seven years after 2010, when the tax cuts are due to expire.
"The president wants to make the tax cuts permanent even though all the forecasts show that will explode the debt right at the time the baby boomers retire," Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said in an interview Sunday. "This budget is plunging us toward a cliff that will take us right into a chasm of debt."
Bush's budget projects that the deficit, which hit an all-time high of $413 billion in 2004, will gradually decline until it becomes a surplus in 2012.
To accomplish that goal, Bush would allow only modest growth in the government programs outside of defense and homeland security. He is proposing eliminations or sharp reductions in 141 government programs, for a savings over five years of $12 billion, although Congress has rejected many of the same proposals over the past two years.
Bush also will seek to trim spending on farm subsidies by $18 billion over five years, mainly by reducing payments to wealthier farmers, an effort certain to spark resistance among farm state lawmakers.
Bush would achieve nearly $100 billion in savings over five years by trimming increases in Medicare, the health insurance program for 43 million retirees and the disabled, and Medicaid, which provides health care to the poor. That effort is also likely to trigger heavy opposition in Congress, which rejected smaller Bush cuts last year.
Most of the Medicare savings would come in slowing the growth of payments to hospitals and other health care providers, but $11.5 billion in savings would come from boosting insurance premiums paid by the wealthiest Medicare recipients.
The president, appealing for Democratic support during an appearance at a House Democrats retreat Saturday, said the government must do something to restrain the soaring costs of entitlement spending on health care and Social Security before the looming retirement of 78 million baby boomers.
Bush once listed overhauling Social Security as the No. 1 domestic priority of his second term. But his effort two years ago to accomplish the overhaul by diverting some Social Security taxes into private investment accounts went nowhere in Congress.
The administration is asking for an additional $100 billion for Iraq and the global war on terrorism this year, on top of $70 billion already requested. That spending would drop to $145 billion in 2008 and fall to $50 billion in 2009, although administration officials conceded that future requests could go higher depending on the progress of the war.
"It's tough to know what the military commanders are going to need on the ground," White House budget director Rob Portman said Sunday on CNN.
The Pentagon is scheduled to get a hefty 11 percent increase in spending authority, pushing its 2008 budget to $481.4 billion.
Bush's budget also includes an initiative to expand health care coverage to the uninsured through a complex proposal that would give every family a $15,000 tax deduction for purchasing health coverage but would make current employee-supplied health coverage taxable.
Bush is also proposing to increase the maximum Pell grant, which goes to low-income students, from the current $4,050 to $4,600. Democrats are pushing for even larger increases.
Bush's energy proposals would expand use of ethanol and other renewable fuels with a goal of cutting gasoline use by 20 percent over the next decade.
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Tabacco: Mind you, we should not deny Bush his $-MILLIONS and His War because it is too expensive; we MUST DENY Bush’s ambitions because WE DON’T BELONG IN IRAQ UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES and certainly not under THESE CIRCUMSTANCES. If there is any morality left in America, religious or otherwise, we must repudiate George W. Bush & all His “Compassionate” Neocon Capitalists, who plunder the Earth & our own people as well.
None of the Talking Heads on TV (guys & dolls, who would lose their jobs toute suite if they did) would dare say the outrageous things about our president that Tabacco says. But Tabacco is not paid by Big Business or anyone else for this Blog. So I can and do speak the Unvarnished Truth. “Political Correctness” be damned!
Do I exaggerate? Very little!
Am I worried? You better believe I am.
Can we do anything to stop the 21st Century version of Der Fuhrer? Yes, that’s why I write this Blog, and that’s why you read it.
Some of you out there in Blog-Land hope that each time Bush speaks to us, He will have changed and begun to protect and defend the rest of us, the Little People. Well, He’s been president for 6 years, and he hasn’t changed yet, except to get more brazen and more “Uncompassionate”. (Note: when referring to the Imperial President, I now use the capital “H” in “He” or “Him” when referring to God and George W. Bush, the self-proclaimed Son of God and direct descendant of Jesus Christ.)
For those Eternal Optimists, I say, “To repetitiously expect a different result from the same old Bush” is one of the definitions of
Americans have no problem in castigating Adolf Hitler, a Nazi, but they cannot seem to utter pejoratives and invectives against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, who are among the most vile, corrupt, selfish, self-centered, evil politicians, who have ever inhabited the Earth.
But the Bad News is that WE DESERVE THESE LEADERS. Germany deserved and got the Nazis. So how can you justify that and qualify America deserving and getting the Neocons? It is illogical and biased to accept the one and discount the other. It is also disingenuous to heap praise on “our soldiers”, particularly the dead ones, who were killed in battle in an Immoral, Illegal, Unjust and Totally Reprehensible War. Their deaths, while deplorable, are no more pitiable than those of Iraqi militants. The only justification for such Sophistry is “Everything American is GOOD, and everything Iraqi is BAD”. That is silly, illogical and biased. Bias is NOT Truth. We deal with Truth on this Blog, no matter how unpalatable it may be.
That these dead soldiers were Dupes of the Bush Neocons does not diminish their guilt, stupidity or responsibility. We are required, as thinking human beings, to think! We may not just blindly follow the megalomaniac mutterings of a demigod, take no actions to stop him, and hope that everything turns out OK.
It is our duty to oppose religious zealots, who practice prejudice against certain groups of people.
Prejudice, noun
1 : injury or damage resulting from some judgment or action of another in disregard of one's rights; especially : detriment to one's legal rights or claims
2 a (1) : preconceived judgment or opinion (2) : an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge b : an instance of such judgment or opinion c : an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics
synonyms see PREDILECTION
- Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary
It is our duty to oppose genocidal political demagogues, whose main purpose is personal profit, regardless of the consequences for others.
Demagogue, noun
1 : a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
2 : a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times
ñdem£a£gogu£ery \-*g*-g(*-)r*\ noun
ñdem£a£gogy \-*g*-g*, -*g*-j*, -*g*-j*\ noun
- Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary
“There is a homely adage which runs: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far'”
Theodore Roosevelt quotes (American 26th US President (1901-09), 1858-1919)
“The lord helps them that helps themselves”
Proverb quotes
“Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and help themselves.”
About: Obesity quotes.
Tabacco: I consider myself both a funnel and a filter. I funnel information, not readily available on the Mass Media, which is ignored and/or suppressed. I filter out the irrelevancies and trivialities to save both the time and effort of my Readers and bring consternation to the enemies of Truth & Fairness! When you read Tabacco, if you don’t learn something NEW, I’ve wasted your time.
In 1981's 'Body Heat', Kathleen Turner said, "Knowledge is power".
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