Bush = Reverse Robin Hood | Rob from the Poor to Give Tax Cuts to the Rich

[Stephanie]

This is not my grandfather's America. SHAME on George Bush and anyone who supports this budget. RAISING fees for veterans' medical care? Doubling their pharma co-pays, instituting a $250 annual fee? WHEN will America see this simpering two-faced liar for the thieving villain that he is?

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/08/MNGHOB7L821.DTL

BUSH’S BUDGET: $2,568,000,000,000
THE PLAN: Domestic programs slashed

Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Tuesday, February 8, 2005

Washington -- President Bush proposed a $2.57 trillion budget Monday that would slash many domestic programs, including expensive but popular entitlements such as Medicaid, farm subsidies and veterans benefits.

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Deficit

$390 billion: Down from a record high of $427 billion this year.

Pentagon

$419 billion: Represents an increase of 4.5 percent and a cumulative 38.6 percent increase over the past five years.

Domestic Spending

Cut almost 1 percent: Overall nondiscretionary spending reduced; nine of 15 Cabinet departments would lose funding.

Tax Cuts

$1.3 trillion (over 10 years): Budget only partially reflects Bush's objective of making his first-term tax cuts permanent. 4: $1 trillion (over 10 years): Costs of partially privatizing Social Security not included.

Interest

$211 billion paid on U.S. debt.

Not Included:

Social Security

$1 trillion (over 10 years): Costs of partially privatizing Social Security not included.

War

$81 billion (approximate): The funds to continue military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will come in separate budget requests.

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[sandnsea]

1. A trillion for Mars

I just heard he's still planning on that Mars program and it's going to cost like a trillion dollars over ten years. I think it's to shuffle money into NASA for something else and they can write it all off as a Mars program research.

[Stephanie]

3. It's for space wars

Read PNAC's Rebuilding America's Defenses - they want arms in space.

[sandnsea]

4. You're probably right

I guess we'll need to take a second look at that and try to figure out how to find it in the NASA budget. So now I think we need a legislative forum AND a budget forum.

[Stephanie]

5. U.S. Space Forces

They detail the conquering of space concept later in the doc, but here is the outline of the plan.
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REBUILDING AMERICA’S DEFENSES

http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

KEY FINDINGS <page 11>

ESTABLISH FOUR CORE MISSIONS for U.S. military forces:
• defend the American homeland;
• fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars;
• perform the “constabulary” duties associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions;
• transform U.S. forces to exploit the “revolution in military affairs;”
To carry out these core missions, we need to provide sufficient force and budgetary allocations. In particular, the United States must:

MAINTAIN NUCLEAR STRATEGIC SUPERIORITY, basing the U.S. nuclear deterrent upon a global, nuclear net assessment that weighs the full range of current and emerging threats, not merely the U.S.-Russia balance.

RESTORE THE PERSONNEL STRENGTH of today’s force to roughly the levels anticipated in the “Base Force” outlined by the Bush Administration, an increase in active-duty strength from 1.4 million to 1.6 million.

REPOSITION U.S. FORCES to respond to 21st century strategic realities by shifting permanently-based forces to Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia, and by changing naval deployment patterns to reflect growing U.S. strategic concerns in East Asia.

MODERNIZE CURRENT U.S. FORCES SELECTIVELY, proceeding with the F-22 program while increasing purchases of lift, electronic support and other aircraft; expanding submarine and surface combatant fleets; purchasing Comanche helicopters and medium-weight ground vehicles for the Army, and the V-22 Osprey “tilt-rotor” aircraft for the Marine
Corps.

CANCEL “ROADBLOCK” PROGRAMS such as the Joint Strike Fighter, CVX aircraft carrier, and Crusader howitzer system that would absorb exorbitant amounts of Pentagon funding while providing limited improvements to current capabilities. Savings from these canceled
programs should be used to spur the process of military transformation.

DEVELOP AND DEPLOY GLOBAL MISSILE DEFENSES to defend the American homeland and American allies, and to provide a secure basis for U.S. power projection around the world.

CONTROL THE NEW “INTERNATIONAL COMMONS” OF SPACE AND “CYBERSPACE,” and pave the way for the creation of a new military service – U.S. Space Forces – with the mission of space control.

EXPLOIT THE “REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS” to insure the long-term superiority of U.S. conventional forces. Establish a two-stage transformation process which
• maximizes the value of current weapons systems through the application of advanced technologies, and,
• produces more profound improvements in military capabilities, encourages competition between single services and joint-service experimentation efforts.

INCREASE DEFENSE SPENDING gradually to a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense spending annually.
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[sandnsea]

6. Find it in a budget

I appreciate that document alot, I really do. But we need to find something that connects this in a budget somewhere.

[Stephanie]

9. Where would it be? In NASA's budget?

Or in Bush's budget? Or buried somewhere in the military budget? Or completely shrouded in mystery in CIA or NSA?

[sandnsea]

12. A trillion for Mars

If you think that's really for this space army, I guess you might find something in the NASA budget.

[ET Awful]

2. I'm reminded of an old punk song talkin' bout Reagan :)

by the Youth Brigade

JUMP BACK

In days of yore when old men were much younger than they are now,
their hearts and minds were of a different time life wasn't like it was now
There was a legend at this time about a gang who ruled these parts
they robbed from the poor and gave to the rich and thought they were very smart (but really, they were dumb)

They were called ronny and his merry band and that they were indeed.
They lived high off the hog they had no use for jobs they were never in need.
They'd sing and dance and fight and play to show they were proud and bold.
They wouldn't realize that one day they could somehow get old.

Jump back, jump back we must jump back to find
the life we once led it cannot be dead we're men of a different time.

So Ronny and his merry men rulded the land with an iron hand.
Times had changed yet they remained the same as when they had began.
They couldn't return to the days of yore things were falling apart.
You must move on life isn't a song and you can't go back to the start.

Jump back, jump back we must jump back to find
the life we once led it cannot be dead we're men of a different time

[FlaGranny]

7. Good bumper sticker

"Robbin' Bush: Robbing the poor to give to the rich."

[Stephanie]

8. Yes! Very good!

I like it.

[kentuck]

10. We could start calling him Hood Robin...

Robin Hood in reverse??

[Stephanie]

11. Or just HOOD

Which is what he is.