Bush complaining about $50 billion for kid's health while pushing for $200 billion for Iraq

Bush's radio address today: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070922.html

"The proposal congressional leaders are pushing would raise taxes on working Americans and would raise spending by $35 to $50 billion . . . we can do our duty to spend the taxpayer's money wisely."



Bush To Seek Additional Funding For Iraq War

9/23/2007 -- The year 2008 is likely to be the most expensive year of the Iraq war, if the Congress approves President Bush's request for an additional $47 billion for war funding, bringing next year's anticipated total war costs to nearly $200 billion, The Los Angeles Times reported on its website late Saturday.

Earlier this year, the Bush administration placed its estimates for the Iraq war for fiscal 2008, which begins Oct. 1, at $147.5 billion. The full estimate for the Iraq war is expected to be presented by the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and other officials at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday.

Due to additional combat forces deployed to Iraq this year and because of efforts to accelerate the production of new technology, such as mine-resistant trucks designed to protect troops from roadside bombs, U.S. war costs have been on the rise.

In 2004, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan together cost $94 billion and it cost $108 billion in 2005 and in 2006 the war costs totaled $122 billion.

http://www.rttnews.com/FOREX/politicalnews.asp?date=09/23/2007&item=6

And that's $50B for like a 10 year program or something to insure a whole bunch of kids.

He wants $200B for all of next year and I'll eat my shorts if he doesn't start calling for another $80B or so in June '08.

And what really makes me sick is that our stupid Congress will roll over and underfund kids' health care while giving Halliburton another bankroll at taxpayer (and future-taxpayer) expense.

$85,000/yr" could get their kids covred by this new plan? I want to see it pass too, but doesn't $80+ thousand/yr sound like enough for them to buy their own?

"Here's some candy for the prolotariat."

needed to start a thread on the obvious hypocricy of bush's latest whining blabberings.

I wonder where he gets all this stuff from?

She also left the new GOP party. I am not sure as I came from a real old time GOP family and none of them were like the Bush people in power now. First of all they all thought war was a waste of men and goods and you could never build a great country making things you blow up. Heck I voted the party line for years and years and slowly left it. I am listed as Green right now. I think Nader is best Dem. we have. Or I think like him so I like him. He talks reason to me. I guess this new group in the running of the GOP have taking over the 'white mans burden' and think like those old time people. We seem to be some of the people who they are sort of thinking about. Either that or the 'know-nothings' are back in power and working out of DC. I feel we better give up the plans to ruling the world as an Empire and work on being just Am. once more. Those thoughts we had went world wide since 1776 and not always at the end of a gun. Slower but a better plan.

The former president's pool boy

By Chris Colin, Special to SF Gate
Monday, September 24, 2007


Pool boys are supposed to conduct torrid affairs with lonely pool owners. James Razsa has passionate feelings about his client, but not the kind likely to turn romantic.

An enduring American figure, the pool boy has long stood for one lowly half of the nation's class gulf. When the pool owner happens to have been the most powerful man on the planet, and the pool boy happens to be one of the planet's great despisers of power, the metaphor explodes into 1,000 points of light.

"If every American had to pool-boy for these people for a day, you'd have a revolution on your hands," is how he sees things.

The 23-year-old from rural Maine says he cleans several pools in the area, not just the Bushes', for a large pool-cleaning company. He works about 45 hours a week, and calls it the easiest job he ever had. He's paid $9 an hour -- "pennies thrown at my feet," relative to the wealth all around him, he says.

Maybe his education about "the ignorant rich" is worth a few additional pennies: "I didn't know places like this existed in Maine. Half an hour from the trailer where I live, there are places with multiple Ferraris, and guest houses five times larger than my trailer," he says.

Granted, the stakes are high at that level. Razsa recalls one day when former first lady Barbara Bush was on her way over, and it looked like there wouldn't be time to bring the pool's temperature up to her desired 82 degrees in time. The family's caretaker was in a panic, he says.

"He kept shouting, 'Barbara will go crazy! Barbara will go crazy!'" Razsa recalls. "This is the same woman who after Hurricane Katrina said (of the Houston Astrodome refugees), 'You know, they're underprivileged anyway, so this -- this is working very well for them.'"


more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/g/a/2007/09/24/onthejob.DTL

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I'm beginning to think Roe vs. Wade is a recruitment ploy.