A 'Lean' Budget? A 3.6% increase is 'austere'? BushSpeak = Truth is Fiction

A 'Lean' Budget?
A 3.6% increase is 'austere'?
BushSpeak = Truth is Fiction

Sean Lewis
February 18 2005

The more I listen to Bush describe his policies and programs, the more I find myself looking for the lies of omission, misrepresentation of facts, and the hidden issue that if the public truly knew would never have voted for Bush, the first time!

Take this 'Lean' Budget. Since Bush has come into office Government spending is up 38%. The current budget is $2.57 Trillion, not including the cost of the war on terror, making the tax cuts permanent, and Social Security Reform.

I thought Conservative Republicans were about SMALLER GOVERNMENT, Fiscal Responsibility and less Government intrusion? Bush 'says' he is about these values, yet ALL his actions are the opposite.

The Medicare 'Fix' that Bush forced passage on by keeping the vote open beyond the Congressional time limit to 'secure' the needed votes, was anything but a fix. The Administration also misrepresented the cost of the 'changes'. Bush claimed the costs would only be $400 Billion, however true costs will be $724 Billion, a fact that was suppressed under threat of employment termination to anyone who 'spilled the beans'.

Medicare is in worse shape NOW after the fix than Social Security. In Fact Medicare's drug entitlement program by itself has an unfunded liability twice as large as the entire Social Security deficit. This is the program that was structured so that no negotiations to reduce medical costs are allowed by law by the US Government. The Largest user of such services.

Bush has gone as far as to say that he would veto any attempts to make the Medicare Drug Entitlement Program more fiscally responsible or cost effective. Who then is truly benefiting from this law? The Drug companies, one of Bush's major contributors.

This gives you a window to the truth of Bush and his policies and programs.

Back to the budget.

If Bush truly wants a lean and austere Government budget he should simply put a mandate that requires that ALL budgets be reduced by 4% which would be inline with his State of the Union Speech of reducing the National Deficit by 50% in 4 years. All meaning All, Entitlements, Military and Discretionary Spending.

This would represent true Fiscal reform and responsibility. This is also why it will never happen, no hidden agenda just honest reform with no political pandering. AKA Leadership with backbone.

Sean Lewis
Virtual Truth
New York City
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We are Americans first. Not black or white, conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat. We are Americans first. Until this fact is understood we will be a nation divided and ineffective. We need to forget our differences and stop blaming each other for the errors of the past. We need to be non partisan about the future of this country. Our greatest enemy is from within. We have turned upon each other. . We need to change our old way of business as usual and be united for the common good. Which is, we are all Americans first.

Time will tell all the Truth.
VT