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February 04, 2008
3,100,000,000,000
Yeah, I'm stealing Drudge's headline, because all of those zeros are just a bit shocking. Three trillion dollars. That's the size of the budget President Bush just submitted.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The record $3.1 trillion budget proposed by President Bush on Monday would produce eyepopping federal deficits, despite his attempts to impose politically wrenching curbs on Medicare and eliminate scores of popular domestic programs.There's some needless editorializing in the AP story, but the sheer size of this budget is incredible, especially when you consider that part of the reason many of us voted for Bush was because he promised to limit the size of government.The Pentagon would receive a $36 billion, 8 percent boost for the 2009 budget year beginning Oct. 1, even as programs aimed at the poor would be cut back or eliminated. Half of domestic Cabinet departments would see their budgets cut outright.
The 2004 election...those were the days.
Posted by slublog at February 4, 2008 11:01 PM
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