Bush budget would pour money into defense

[maddezmom]

President Bush’s 2009 budget, to be unveiled Monday, is expected to call for an almost $36 billion increase in core Defense Department spending, apart from the larger costs of maintaining U.S. military operations in Iraq and the overall war against terrorism.

An estimated $515.4 billion would be dedicated to defense including family housing and health care for troops, according to drafts of Pentagon documents, which highlight increases for new weapons procurement but also the huge costs of maintaining today’s professional military.

Military pay and health care costs would grow by $9 billion, an even larger increase than the $8.3 billion dedicated to strategic modernization.

And about 42 percent of the total increase, or $14.9 billion, would be eaten up by escalating operations, readiness and support costs.

The steady growth in defense comes at a time when the administration is attempting to slow domestic spending and set up what amounts to a budget challenge this year that effectively dares the Democratic Congress to go over what could be a $1 trillion mark in total discretionary appropriations.

more:http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8266.html

[jimshoes]

1. bush would put a tourniquet on

both legs and both arms to increase the blood supply to his dick. Never mind that the arms and legs will become gangrenous and die after a while. He's doing the same thing with our country. Cutting off the lifeblood (money) to different sections of our infrastructure, medicare, medicaid, education and so forth to engorge the military industrial, oil and pharma sectors with monies essential to sustaining the health of the country at large.

[water]

2. Not to mention destroying the private sector.