owl Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Regardless of whether you think this budget is okay, it angers me. My summary (lots more in the article): Bush Budget Slashes Environment' date=' Funds Nuclear Development[/url'] $2.9 trillion budget package - big increases for defense spending (obviously) - cuts in education - $1.5 billion cut to conservation programs- Plan to get "private sector" involved in National Parks (That's a big "fuck you" to America). - Proposal to sell off up to $800 million of National Forest lands will likely be nearly identical to the previous proposal that would have sold up to 300,000 acres of National Forest lands across 35 states (And another big "fuck you"). - $5.5 million cut to Endangered Species recovery - 60% cut to Land and Water Conservation Fund - $4 million cut to the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences - Assumptions that tax revenues will increase and that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will be leased for oil and gas development. - 40 percent cut to the Weatherization Assistance Program, which conserves energy by helping low-wage workers and retirees on fixed incomes to insulate their homes.Also: - 83% cut to the blossoming Amtrak - from $1.3 billion in 2007 to 900m in 2008. - $9 million cut in research funding to the National Cancer Institute Harry Reid: "Rather than sending Congress a budget that strengthens homeland security, energy independence, education, affordable health care and fiscal discipline, the president proposes nearly a half-billion dollars for the nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain...The proposed dump is a project whose time has passed. As majority leader of the Senate, I promise the highest Congressional scrutiny for this waste of taxpayer dollars." Barbara Boxer: "The American people voted for change last November, but instead of listening to them, the president is giving us more of the same - a blank check for this endless war and penny-pinching for critical domestic priorities like education, health care, energy independence, support for local law enforcement, and combating the threat of global warming," said Boxer. This guy is such a fucking asshole. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
owl Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 Remember when Rumsfeld and Cheney said that the TerrorWar in Iraq would cost just $50-60bn, and all other estimates were "malarkey"? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
quarter23cd Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 This guy is such a fucking asshole.Wow. The list of environmental and education cuts (while clearly insane) aren't surprising, but I don't see how this one can possibly win him any applause from anyone:- $9 million cut in research funding to the National Cancer Institute Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Maybe this is all for the best. Black is kind of white, if you think about it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anodyne Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 1-20-09 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
quarter23cd Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 1-20-09Is this the new date on the doomsday clock? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anodyne Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 if we can make it to that point... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WilcoFan Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I wonder how much the people fighting our troops in Iraq have spent? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Basil II Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 1-20-09 I can't f*ckin' wait!! Bush is really makin' a name fer himself undeserving of even a Presidential Library...IMO... -Robert. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WilcoFan Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I can't f*ckin' wait!!Bush is really makin' a name fer himself undeserving of even a Presidential Library...IMO... -Robert. I was thinking the same thing myself the other day. And if he does have a library you wouldn't be able to go in because his administration will probably not allow any documents for release to the public. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Basil II Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I was thinking the same thing myself the other day. And if he does have a library you wouldn't be able to go in because his administration will probably not allow any documents for release to the public. The Yucca Mountain complex would be perfect,then...... -Robert. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
explodo Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Education cuts!? Awesome! The 50,000 dollars I'm in debt wasn't nearly enough. And fuck paying teachers, too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
quarter23cd Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 undeserving of even a Presidential Library...IMO...I'm pretty sure his will be spelled "liberry". And will consist mostly of those hollowed-out fake books that you can hide stuff in. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
owl Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 it will probably be nuquelar powered, as well Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anodyne Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 a library in honor of a semi-literate seems perfect for bush's legacy. i should cut him some slack here - this summer he read a few shakespeares and a book about killing arabs. or so he says. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
owl Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 Reading Camus' The Stranger is about as hard as watching television. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
a.miller Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I really don't know what to think of Bush anymore. I mean, I really don't like him and I don't understand how anyone could. It seems like just when I think he couldn't screw up anymore...he finds a way to do so. I don't understand how you can possess the thoughts to go against the grain of the American public in the way he has. As it's been said, people showed how they felt last November. I do not understand how a person like George Bush goes about his business and neglects all that is going on around him. Cutting funding for education?!? Cancer research?!? Are you out of your mind? The president should be honest about this war. I said it in the beginning and I still say it's all about oil. Remember that country....Afghanistan? They crashed a few planes into some buildings here...does that ring a bell, George? What happened there? Why are we in Iraq? The worst part is that I feel handicapped and I can't do anything as a politically active person or American citizen that makes one bit of difference -- and that's the real problem. Do we really, really think democracy is going to take hold in Iraq? I'm sorry, but I don't. When this country needs it most, our president can't provide an answer to the direction he is taking the country. There's my rant for the month. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
owl Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 Just remember this when the next elections come around. Remember that this budget was written by the hardcore Republicans who pull the strings- the real Bush Administration. The President, in this case, is mostly the loud end of the bullhorn, though he'd like to believe that he pulls the trigger. He probably hasn't even read the budget. I'm sure that the cuts for Education are meant to put a priority on the sale of our National Forests to fund rural schools. Remember- those are our National Forests, not Chevron's, Exxon's, or WalMart's. And Godspeed to Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, and the Demmycrats when it comes time to butchering this hog of a budget. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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bjorn_skurj Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Reading Camus' The Stranger is about as hard as watching television.Trickier in French. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
owl Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 Trickier in French. Touche. My guess is that Bush even read the abridged version/he had someone brief him on it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Cliff's Notes on that book exist; a kid in my French class had them. I read both the French and the English version simultaneously. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
owl Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 It's amazing that Cliff's Notes for The Stranger exist (the English version, anyway). It's a pretty riveting, easy, and short read. I think I did it in an hour. It would probably take just as long to read the Cliff's Notes. Gotta make a living, though, I guess. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anodyne Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 i have a translation that's annotated and pretty verbose. it's like a teacher's edition. i don't care for the version much as it takes away all the brainpower needed to read by spelling out absolutely everything of any significance. it's like watching CSI: NY. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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