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08
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by QuestionGirl • 8:51 pm
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Funny how these “classified” reports are leaked at the most opportune times. It’s reported today that a classified Pentagon assessment concluded that the long battlefield tours in Iraq and Afghanistan have left us unable to respond to any new crisis. It’s all about the persistent terrorist activity. Uh huh….. I think it’s all about Bush asking for $515.4 billion (that’s billion with a B) in defense spending for 2009. And that doesn’t include the cost of the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan This is an over 50% increase in military spending since Bush took office. Maybe if they’d take care of all the defense contractor fraud, this budget wouldn’t be so over the top. Let alone the monies that the Pentagon can’t account for. Anyone remember this comment from Rumsfeld the day before 9/11? “According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions,” Rumsfeld admitted. That’s trillion with a T. Gone….and forgotten.
Like the dipshit says, “It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it.
Then there’s the domestic budget…….. you know, shit that’s not important……to Bush, anyway.
On the domestic front, the White House will call for trimming discretionary spending within the Department of Health and Human Services by more than $2 billion, to $74.2 billion, according to budget documents.
Among the reductions are more than $1 billion to programs run by the Administration for Children and Families, including a $280 million hit to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, a block grant program that helps the poor pay heating and air-conditioning bills.
The budget plan argues for a $500 million reduction in the Social Services Block Grant program, which helps states protect children from neglect and abuse, and pay for day care, adoption, health services, foster care and other services for children and families.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would lose more than $430 million, including $27 million from its efforts to detect and control infectious diseases, and $28 million from chronic disease prevention and health promotion. A $301 million program that trains 4,700 pediatricians and pediatric specialists at children’s teaching hospitals also would be eliminated, at a time when pediatric specialties, such as rheumatology and pulmonology, face critical shortages.
And America sits back and watches……..
