Newest Senator Assails Bush's Budget Plan

[Judi Lynn]

Newest Senator Assails Bush's Budget Plan
By JEFFREY GOLD, Associated Press Writer

Saturday, February 11, 2006
(02-11) 08:09 PST Trenton, N.J. (AP) --

The budget proposed by President Bush adds to middle-class burdens while providing greater benefits for the wealthy and oil companies, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., said Saturday.

"This is a budget that does more than ignore the problems facing the middle class — it actually makes them worse," Menendez said in the Democrats' weekly radio address.
"At the same time, the budget includes a wide variety of handouts to the president's special-interest friends, including billions of dollars of wasteful spending that would help add $4 trillion to our nation's debt," said Menendez, the nation's newest senator.
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Menendez said Bush's budget for 2007, released Monday, would increase college costs "by locking in the largest student aid cut in the history of our nation."

He also said, "It will increase health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs through new schemes that will expand tax shelters for the healthy and the wealthy and drive up costs for the rest of us."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/02/11/national/w080914S10.DTL

[Toots]

1. Bush* will always give to his base "The Haves and the Have Mores"

As he bragged about on more than one occasion...

[rodeodance]

2. Good for him

[Toots]

3. Ummm if you say so..

I somehow think it may not end up that way...

[Rose Siding]

4. That snip from Moore's film...

would have been more effective as an ad than any other I've ever seen.

"Some call you the have mores. I call you my base."

[UTUSN]

5. Good to have a Cuban-American who is a Dem, like most other Hispanics n/t

[Kber]

6. Can I take credit for this?

I called his office this past week to voice my opposition to the budget in general and especially to the SS privitization hidden within. So, obviously, he took me seriously.

Kidding about the credit of course, but nice to know our new guy isn't hiding out in the shadows or anything.

[Daphne08]

7. I'm also concerned about that stealth Social Security plan n/t

[shanti]

10. as well we should be

the SS overhaul has always been the MAIN target for the neocons. follow the money trail - always.

[jarnocan]

8. He sounds really cool

I also like Rep. Frank Pallone and of course Rep. Russ HOLT (HR550) from NJ!

[jazzjunkysue]

9. Another one bites the dust. They're dropping like flies.

I swear, they know they can't keep supporting the chimperor another go around and they're bailing.

I think the man date is over, kids. I really do.