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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Bush 2009 budget....Jesus man.

Recent headlines say that the Bush 2009 budget (2009?) is going to call for some really tight budget cuts in Healthcare programs and social services. All I can say is WTF! Of course we have no problems sending billions of dollars to Iraq and other military junkets. But this Compassionate Conservative has no issue cutting the legs out from under those who would need it most. This is worse than Ronald Reagan! At least Ronnie pretended to be trying to make government smaller. Of course he too cut programs that were benefiting the average joe. Here it is folks let me lay it out. What has happened is the people who were opposed to FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society programs could not argue that they didn't work. Because they did. And arguing to eliminate things like Social Security and Medicare was political suicide, since hey they worked, kept people out of poverty and we all like that! Now realize that this administration actually proposed privatizing Social Security. That should really give us all chills. Then they went and established a huge costly benefit in the form of Medicare D, the drug program. Which really helps the big pharmaceuticals more than anything but that's neither here nor there. Why add a big cost to a program that is already costly? Because the 'conservatives' that oppose the FDR and LBJ programs WANT to bankrupt them. Here is the way it works. First you scare the bejesus out of everyone with all the terrorist talk. So then you have to bulk up the military budgets and can never cut them back because we have to win the 'war on terra'! Now you cry that the sky is falling and we can't afford to continue to provide social security and medicare because it is just too expensive. Of course hiding other facts at the same time. Remember this link? So everyone is convinced that we need to cut, eliminate or privatize these programs thus removing the government promise of these programs completely. This people is fascism. Don't forget the definition thereof. We are being duped folks. Our countries leaders and our press and media is screwing us over.

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