GOP pushes $2.4T budget through House

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans began pushing a $2.4 trillion budget for next year through the House on Wednesday and, at the same time, criticized moderate GOP senators opposed to the measure's weakened limits on tax cuts.

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Hastert said the House would not let those moderates "nail us down so we couldn't react to the economy" by making it harder to cut taxes.

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The budget would provide increases President Bush requested for next year for defense and domestic security spending. It also includes $50 billion he has not yet sought for next year's costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Under Congress' rules, final congressional passage of a budget would let the House avoid a direct vote later on a politically sensitive bill that would raise the government's borrowing limit by an additional $690 billion to $8.1 trillion.

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There is no other rational explanation for this insane spending.

:kick:

believe the sooner the better...Maybe then mother
earth can have peace..God knows the humans will never
let her, look at what we have done to planet earth! It
didn't even take four years....

And destroy Social Security and Medicare at the same time. Even the blind can see their agenda. The only ones who cannot see are the brainwashed, ignorant millions who blindly follow their neocon leaders.

http://www.drizzle.com/~bongboy/pms/fascist_propaganda.html

Neo-Conservative Fascist Propaganda For the Mindless
By Brent VanDevender and Chuck Valentine


An intellectual, writer and political activist, I have gotten quite sick of the ignorant political propaganda which has almost completely dominated the American mass media, especially since 9/11.

These fundamentalist neo-conservative fascists deliberately murder thousands of American civilians and military personnel and millions of innocent foreign civilians and military personnel. They profit from the war and chaos and extreme hatred that follow.

They have taken away almost all of America's freedom, dignity and intellect. Neo-conservative fascists like Bill O' Reilly of Fox News keep the ignorant American masses brainwashed with his ridiculous political propaganda which only someone with the intelligence quotient of a six month old baby would believe. Far too many Americans absorb the vile rantings of a politically motivated jackass such as O'Reilly because they've been trained to accept lies as truths when repeated enough and because of the passivity which television imposes on the masses who are already too busy and/or lazy to think for themselves. Given the collusion between the news media in this country and the neocon power machine, most Americans accept this slanted 'reporting' as gospel, never seeking out what really happened. The US news media eagerly collaborate with the political interests of their masters to suppress legitimate stories and to repeat lies as truth until accepted by the public. Many recent examples of suppressed stories can be found at Project Censored http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2004/index.html

Simultaneously, Al-Jazeera keeps the ignorant Arab masses brainwashed with equally ridiculous political propaganda. The effects of this brainwashing are that an Arab is brainwashed into killing an American so that the American government can say "We don't know where these people came from but they just killed a lot of you. Do you mind if we go kill them?" The American reaction is, of course, an emphatic "Yes!" which results in overt aggression and desperate acts of terrorism performed by the most depraved opponents of civilization itself, the New World Order, lead by the Bush administration, against yet more innocent civilians and military personnel in central Asia.
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They are killing this country.

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which is likely a grotesque melange of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Imperial Rome, Pinochet's Chile and Marcos' Phillipines.

But it doesn't resemble any Free Nation that ever existed, including the Old Republic it is trying to replace.

:eyes:

I listened this author yesterday on Democracy Now, he left no doubt (and filled one of my final suspicions). To me they all need swept out so the nation can get a fresh start. The only thing they all seem to know how to do is compromise to in effect screw most everybody but the ultra rich.



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NON-PARTISAN exposé on how our gov't is screwing us, May 17, 2004
Reviewer: John from Riverdale, MD
Despite repeated statements to the contrary, THE AUTHOR, DAVID CAY JOHNSTON IS IN FACT A REGISTERED REPUBLICAN.

I don't know where people get the idea the author is a liberal. Maybe because his book criticizes George W.'s tax policies. They seem to overlook the fact that he just as often criticizes Bill Clinton's policies. He goes on to show that regardless of party affiliation, for several decades our elected officials in the whitehouse and congress have been continuously and consistently shifting more and more of the cost of running this country from those who are most able to pay to those who are struggling to get by.

I'm about half way through the book, and I'm already thinking I need to buy a copy and give it to everyone I know. I think we should demand our senators and congress people all read this book and then tell us what they are going to do to guarantee the super rich take up their fair share of the tax burden and lighten it for those at the bottom. And if they don't enact it within a year, we'll vote them out office. And we won't accept a short term pacifier that will later transform into an even greater burden. We need a permanent solution.

This book explains in terms most people can understand the various ways in which our tax system cheats the average American. Even if the topic of taxes and finances typically makes your brain cloud over, you'll still be understand this book. The use of several examples to explain a given point help you grasp the concepts. I finally got impatient and jumped to the chapter whose title seemed to suggest might it contain the author's suggested solution "Is Reform Possible?". He points out problems with some recently suggested fixes, but doesn't suggest one himself. I think part of the problem is that while most people, after reading this book, will agree our current system is unfair, it's hard to agree on what a fair system would look like.

Every American citizen who pays taxes needs to read this book.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591840198/002-0048185-9531210?v=glance#product-details

Liston the interview hear
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/18/1350212

They will pay for their fiscal irresponsibility.

And, whoever is unlucky enough to be running the government when the chickens finally come home to roost.

Rep. this morning on their demand to extend *'s tax program for the wealthy and increase the $1000/kid tax credit to those couples making up to $289,000/yr. I was so angry that I forgot to save a copy of my email letter before I submitted it. I have written to this guy about a dozen times a month and I don't think he has ever agreed with or voted for anything I supported. Until now, I have been very polite and the good deal is that his office always sends back a response... But today, I told him that I had had it with the Repub House and their inane spending..hundreds of billions for corporation speciality tax breaks, the 'might makes right' police of Chimpy, the fear mongering, the disrespect of the religious right of the US Constitution, etc. He represents Bentonville, Arkansas, home to the Walton family (Wal-Mart) who got a total of $984 million in tax savings from the Republicans!! I said I would do everything in my power to take back my country in November. I suppose Asscroft will be sitting on my back step when I get home.

Red ink! Red ink! Borrow and Spend! :evilgrin:

yowsa

sell dollars..

Susan Collins says that she will vote no and they say she is just one of 5 moderate republicans to oppose the budget. I assume they are Snowe, Chafee, McCain, and Collins along with maybe Voinovich or Specter I guess. So, it seems clear that the budget won't get enough votes in the Senate so the budget will fail.

lets see if the mod repubs will stick to their guns or fold under pressure.

even asked for? WTF!