Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Il "budget" che si meritano

Peccato che toccherà anche a chi ha avuto la saggezza di non votare per
l'idiota.
Namib
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush sent Congress a $2.57
trillion budget plan Monday that seeks deep spending cuts across a
wide swath of government from reducing subsidies paid to the
nation's farmers, cutting health care payments for poor people and
veterans and trimming spending on the environment and education.
"It's budget that sets priorities," Bush said after a
meeting with his Cabinet. "It's a budget that reduces and eliminates
redundancy. It's a budget that's a lean budget."
Bush acknowledged that it would be difficult to eliminate
popular programs but he said programs must prove their worth. "I'm
very optimistic."
Democrats immediately branded the budget a "hoax" because it
left out the huge future costs for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan
and did not include the billions of dollars that will be needed for
Bush's No. 1 domestic priority, overhauling Social Security.
The budget -- the most austere of Bush's presidency -- would
eliminate or vastly scale back 150 government programs. It will
spark months of contentious debate in Congress, where lawmakers will
fight to protect their favored programs.
House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California
called Bush's budget "a hoax on the American people. The two issues
that dominated the president's State of the Union address -- Iraq and
Social Security -- are nowhere to be found in this budget."
Bush's budget does not reflect the costs for his No. 1
domestic priority, overhauling Social Security by allowing younger
workers to set up private investment accounts. Aides said since the
plan is still being developed, accurate cost estimates could not be
made.
The budget also does not include any new spending for
military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The administration has
said it will seek in coming weeks an additional $80 billion for the
cost of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for this year.
The spending document projects that the deficit will hit a
record $427 billion this year, the third straight year that the red
ink in dollar terms has set a record. Bush projects that the deficit
will fall to $390 billion in 2006 and gradually decline to $233
billion in 2009 and $207 billion in 2010.
Bush's 2006 spending plan, for the budget year that begins
next Oct. 1, counts on a healthy economy to boost revenues by 6.1
percent to $2.18 trillion. Spending, meanwhile, would grow by 3.5
percent to $2.57 trillion.
However, outside defense, homeland security and the
government's huge mandatory programs such as Social Security, Bush
proposes cutting spending by 0.5 percent, the first such proposed
cut since the Reagan administration battled with its own soaring
deficits.
Of 23 major government agencies, 12 would see their budget
authority reduced next year, including cuts of 9.6 percent at
Agriculture, 5.6 percent at the Environmental Protection Agency, 6.7
percent at Transportation and 11.5 percent at Housing and Urban
Development.
In his budget message to Congress, Bush said, "In order to
sustain our economic expansion, we must continue pro-growth policies
and enforce even greater spending restraint across the federal
government."
But Democrats complained that Bush was resorting to
draconian cuts that would hurt the needy in order to protect his
first term tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthy.
"This budget is part of the Republican plan to cut Social
Security benefits while handing out lavish tax breaks for
multimillionaires," said Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
"Its cuts in veterans programs, health care and education reflect
the wrong priorities and its huge deficits are fiscally
irresponsible."
Critics also contend that the five-year deficit projections
also mask the costs of some Bush initiatives such as making his
first-term tax cuts permanent, the bulk of which do not show up
until after 2010. The budget puts the 10-year cost of making the
president's tax cut proposals permanent at $1.29 trillion.
Bush's budget proposed increasing military spending by 4.8
percent to $419.3 billion in 2006. However, even with the increase a
number of major weapons programs, including Bush's missile defense
system and the B-2 stealth bomber, would see cuts from this year's
levels.
Aside from defense and homeland security, favored Bush
programs included a new $1.5 billion high school performance
program, expanded Pell Grants for low-income college students and
more support for community health clinics.
One of the most politically sensitive targets on Bush's hit
list is the government support program for farmers, which he wants
to trim by $5.7 billion over the next decade, which would represent
cuts to farmers growing a wide range of cuts from cotton and rice to
corn, soybeans and wheat.
Overall, the administration projected saving $8.2 billion in
agriculture programs over the next decade including trimming food
stamp payments to the poor by $1.1 billion.
Other programs set for cuts include the Army Corps of
Engineers, whose dam and other waterway projects are extremely
popular in Congress; the Energy Department; several health programs
under the Health and Human Services Department and federal subsidies
for the Amtrak passenger railroad.
About one-third of the programs being targeted for
elimination are in the Education Department, including federal grant
programs for local schools in such areas as vocational education,
anti-drug efforts and Even Start, a $225 million literacy program.
In all, the president proposed savings of $137 billion over
10 years in mandatory programs with much of that occurring in
reductions in Medicaid, the big federal-state program that provides
health care for the poor, and in payments the Veterans
Administration makes for health care. The administration proposed no
savings for Medicare, the giant health care program for the elderly.
Many of the spending cuts in the budget are repeats of
efforts the administration has proposed and Congress has rejected
previously.

 l'idiota.
se votavano l'altro (in realtà pare che sia stato di nuovo votato l'altro)
probabilmente non cambiava molto..

 l'idiota.
#_Ricordati anche le sue parole, recentemente , ricorrenti: "ho ricevuto un 
capitale da *spendere* e io lo spendero`...e`nel mio carattere!" frase, 
questa, che e` frutto, quasi sicuramente, dello stesso David Frumm, che 
invento`l' "Axis of Evil".
Ora dato che, a parere di tutti, le elezioni furono vinte per il supporto 
decisivo ( piu`nelle seconde che nelle prime e.) dei 3 milioni di 
neocristiani bigotti del Nord , del Sud, dell'Est  e dell'Ovest, direi che 
il "Guru" Giorgetto deve aver fatto un pingue bottino , vuotando le loro 
tasche( alla moda di ogni pseudo-guru che si rispetti fa coi fedeli) di poco 
piu`di $800.000 pro capite!!!!!
Giano 

 capitale da *spendere* e io lo spendero`...
...dovessi rimetterci tutti i *vostri* soldi!"... E poi dicono che i
democratolatri non hanno il senso dell'umorismo...
Namib

 capitale da *spendere* e io lo spendero`...e`nel mio carattere!"
Un consumatore modello insomma..