(humor) Nostalgic Bush Says FY2009 Budget "Last Chance to Shaft the Poor"

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Nostalgic Bush Says FY2009 Budget "Last Chance to Shaft the Poor"

By Ion Zwitter, Avant News Editor
Washington, D.C., February 12, 2008

An unusually somber and introspective President George W. Bush, presenting the details of his $3.1 trillion FY2009 budget proposal for members of the American Plutocrats Union, a conservative group, lamented that the budget proposal represents his “last chance to shaft the poor.” He urged the assembled audience to do “everything in their powers” to convince their elected representatives that the budget proposal represented an historic opportunity that may not return for a decade or more.

“Friends, patrons, beneficiaries of the conservative ideals,” President Bush said. “My budget proposal for fecal year, fiscal 1999, year 2009, might could be the last chance we got to show the American poor and middle class what the Republic party and our true conservative ideals stands for.”

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