Presidential Priorities

The President has released his new proposed budget.

He is cutting Medicare and Medicaid... health insurance to the elderly, and children below the poverty line... by $100 billion over the next 5 years.

The president's budget would also reduce spending for Medicare and Medicaid, the federal government's health programs for the elderly and the poor, by about $100 billion over five years. And it would provide insufficient extra cash to maintain coverage for poor children currently enrolled in the Children's Health Insurance Program.

In related news, the war in Iraq will likely cost us $1 trillion. That could have given every child in America a free private college education along with... oh... about $100 billion for healthcare left over. $1 trillion could have bought every family... all 40 million of them in America... a new Prius. (Or could have just written every family in America a check for $25,000, naturally.)

In fact, I'm willing to bet that with $1 trillion put into research and development, that famous American ingenuity probably could have created an economically viable alternative energy production system that would have made the world completely independent of oil and fossil fuels.

Well, at least the Iraqis are happy and free and safe from murderous dictators, so it was all worth it.

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