Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Compare and Contrast
Well. We had $40 billion in cuts to programs for the poor and for students. On the same day, this is released:
WASHINGTON -President Bush next week will request a $439.3 billion Defense Department budget for 2007, a nearly 5 percent increase over this year, according to senior Pentagon officials and documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

The spending plan would include $84.2 billion for weapons programs, a nearly 8 percent increase, including billions of dollars for fighter jets, Navy ships, helicopters and unmanned aircraft. The total includes a substantial increase in weapons spending for the Army, which will get $16.8 billion in the 2007 budget, compared with $11 billion this year.
Hmmm. New "leaner" military?

And remember. As usual, none of this includes the "special" allocations of money for Iraq. The latest of these was also announced today and clocked in at $70 billion, bringing this years total request to $120 billion.

Not only are the cuts chump change, but they're just plain mean.
Written at 5:34 PM by Greyhair.
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