"US President George Bush asked a sceptical Congress on Monday for more money to pay for the Iraq war, in a $US622 billion defense-spending request that exceeded that of any year since the end of World War Two."
So it is reported by ONE News / Business. What makes the proposal so offensive is this:
"Programmes ranging from labor to education and cleaning up the environment would take a cut after accounting for inflation, which is running at around 2.5%.
Some of Bush's proposed savings would come in health care programs. Bush would squeeze $66 billion over five years in savings from the Medicare health program for the elderly."
One almost hear the Congress and the people of America regarding Bushs' proposals as a real treat - not!!
The NY Times discusses the Bush Budget proposal here.
So it is reported by ONE News / Business. What makes the proposal so offensive is this:
"Programmes ranging from labor to education and cleaning up the environment would take a cut after accounting for inflation, which is running at around 2.5%.
Some of Bush's proposed savings would come in health care programs. Bush would squeeze $66 billion over five years in savings from the Medicare health program for the elderly."
One almost hear the Congress and the people of America regarding Bushs' proposals as a real treat - not!!
The NY Times discusses the Bush Budget proposal here.
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