With America on Our Side, We're Battling Bush on the Budget

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With America on Our Side, We're Battling Bush on the Budget

Remarks Delivered by AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee to a Capitol Hill Press Conference on Tuesday, October 2, 2007

We are locked in an epic battle with President Bush. A battle to preserve the role of the public services that keep our families safe and our communities strong. A fight over what kind of America we want to be.

This is a man in the twilight of his presidency – a presidency that has been characterized by mismanagement, misjudgments and misconduct. And with his last few gasps of presidential power he has chosen to bull-headedly charge forward with his failed policies and wrong priorities.

This President was announcing his plans to veto health care for children while in the same breath asking for billions to fund his mismanaged and unpopular war with no end in Iraq.

Bush and the Republican Leadership want to stand in the way of funding important domestic priorities like cancer research, infrastructure improvements and veterans programs.

They talk about supporting the troops but drop the ball when it counts. If Bush really wants to support the troops, he should bring them home and should not block our attempts to get funding for veterans.

AFSCME, Americans United for Change and USAction commissioned a poll to study public opinion on these issues and the results are clear – on issue after issue, America thinks George Bush has the wrong priorities.

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