Did no one see the article yesterday, which I link to below ("He's Starving the Beast"?). Where's the outrage?
Basically, budget projections to 2006 are requiring cuts in Health and Human Services, EPA, NSF, Small Business Association, transportation, Social Security, envioronmental protection in the Interior Department. Administration members say "Those budget numbers just come from a formula" -- but the formula is based on how much money we'll have. The projection is that the $400B deficifts Bush has been running and his over-projections for economic expansion are coming to roost -- these services can't even hold ground, they are going to face cuts after the election.
We're talking about cuts in school services, food programs, programs which watch our parklands and resources, programs to take care of the neediest and most vulnerable of our society. This is what we can look forward to in 2006.
The worst of it is -- those budget projections are based on our economic state, which would be inherited by the next Administration -- whether it is Kerry or Bush. One of them is going to preside over serious budget shortfalls. The problems are already in front of us, and we have Bush to blame for it.
Rather than "Starve the Beast", we should refer to the "compassionate Convervative" agenda as "Starve the Children and widows."
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