A leaked White House memo shows that if George Bush is re-elected, he will make large cuts in many government programs, including both homeland security and veterans programs, while again cutting the taxes of the wealthy.
By Stewart Nusbaumer
Referring to America’s war dead, President Bush told an audience at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day that “America acknowledges a debt that is beyond our power to repay.” Many of the nation’s 26 million living veterans, some of whom were wounded in wars, some of whom are old and frail, are wondering if President Bush is interested in repaying the debt owed to them. Veterans, as well as other Americans, are asking, where is George Bush's “compassionate conservatism”?
A memorandum from the White House Budge Office, recently obtained by the Associated Press from congressional sources who requested anonymity, instructs government agencies to prepare for massive cuts to domestic programs in 2006, even as the administration pushes for $1 trillion in new tax cuts.
“The ball is now out for everyone to see,” said Senator Bob Graham (Democrat--Florida). “The only thing that's left in place is the part of the ball that is labeled ‘tax cuts for my rich friends.’”
“The fat cats will get their tax cuts,” writes Bob Herbert in The New York Times. “But in the new American plutocracy, there won't even be crumbs left over for the working folks at the bottom of the pyramid to scramble after.”
“Same old Republican game,” says disabled Vietnam veteran Phil Hartman, “raise the defense budget and make military veterans pay for the cost. Ronald Reagan did the same thing. George Bush is now doing it.”
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