Dems go after budget, saying * misleading about the costs

[BlueInRed]

I know this is no real surprise, but we ought to spread the word since we know the MSM won't do it. Bush left the Iraq war, tax cuts and SS out of the budget.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=1&u=/ap/20050208/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_budget

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Democrats attacked President Bush (news - web sites) on Tuesday for putting forward a $2.57 trillion spending plan that they charged left out huge costs for the Iraq (news - web sites) war, Social Security (news - web sites) and tax cuts just so the administration could claim it was on track to cut the deficit in half by 2009. . . .

Rep. John Spratt (news, bio, voting record), the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, told Bolten that the Bush budget "paints a misleading picture by providing no deficit figures after 2010 and by omitting the full long-term costs of the President's policies on Social Security privatization, taxes, and operations in Iraq."

Spratt said the $1.8 trillion in deficits the administration is projecting over the next six years will more likely total over $4 trillion in the next 10 years if the true costs of the Iraq war, overhauling Social Security and making the tax cuts permanent were included.
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