Those Budget cuts- last years proposed $4.9 B of cuts ended up $200 m only

[papau]

"Many of the savings that Mr. Bush is proposing are recycled ideas included in budgets year after year to show a lower projected deficit, even though their enactment is doubtful. Mr. Bush proposed substantially cutting or eliminating 65 programs last year, for a total proposed saving of $4.9 billion, but Congress eliminated fewer than a half dozen of them, for a total saving of less than $200 million," the New York Times' Andrews and Rosenbaum report

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/08/politics/08math.html

[Robert Oak]

1. don't forget HR 4520, a corporate pork holiday feast

to remedy a $4B corporate tax issue, deemed illegal by the WTO, congress passed a $137B corporate and special interest giveaway.

http://forum.noslaves.com/index.php?showtopic=271

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1012-07.htm