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What good can come of this? hopefully it stirs your soul, uncovers small truths and in time... awakens love.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
The proposed federal budget for 2007 is $2.77 trillion, just in case anyone was wondering. A quick take on some of it:
Commerce spending: $6.3 billion, a decrease of 2.2% from last year, including elimination of The Advanced Technology Program that provided grants to businesses to help develop new technologies for commercial use. (contradicts the claim of a new "American competitiveness initiative")
Defense spending: $439.3 billion, an increase of 6.9% from last year, not including an additional $50 billion sought after for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The administration feels this will help "win the global war on terrorism." It also estimates that the "war on terror" will cost as much as $10 billion a month next year.
Education: $63.4 bilion, a decrease of 28.5% from last year, including the elimination of 42 programs including money for the arts, technology, parent-resource centers and drug-free schools. Of the 141 programs the president mentioned cutting in the state of the union address, about a third are in education. (no child left behind? education initiatives? new teachers specialized in ap courses and math and science? educators from the math and science fields? Not so much!)
Homeland Security: $31 billion, an increase of 9.8% from last year, including $935 million for the 20 year Deepwater program to modernize boats and planes and $838 million in counterterror grants for the highest risk cities and regions. It also asks for $247 million to fund the presidents proposed guest worker program granting temporary visas to immigrants seeking (our jobs) employment in the US.
Housing and Urban Developement: $33.5 billion, a decrease of 29.9% from last year (despite the mention in the state of the union address of helping poor people buy homes, which didnt make a lot of sense to me anyway but whatever)
I personally dont have a problem with listening to the president talk about the state of the union for about an hour once a year but to fill that hour with blatent lies really ticks me off.
Commerce spending: $6.3 billion, a decrease of 2.2% from last year, including elimination of The Advanced Technology Program that provided grants to businesses to help develop new technologies for commercial use. (contradicts the claim of a new "American competitiveness initiative")
Defense spending: $439.3 billion, an increase of 6.9% from last year, not including an additional $50 billion sought after for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The administration feels this will help "win the global war on terrorism." It also estimates that the "war on terror" will cost as much as $10 billion a month next year.
Education: $63.4 bilion, a decrease of 28.5% from last year, including the elimination of 42 programs including money for the arts, technology, parent-resource centers and drug-free schools. Of the 141 programs the president mentioned cutting in the state of the union address, about a third are in education. (no child left behind? education initiatives? new teachers specialized in ap courses and math and science? educators from the math and science fields? Not so much!)
Homeland Security: $31 billion, an increase of 9.8% from last year, including $935 million for the 20 year Deepwater program to modernize boats and planes and $838 million in counterterror grants for the highest risk cities and regions. It also asks for $247 million to fund the presidents proposed guest worker program granting temporary visas to immigrants seeking (our jobs) employment in the US.
Housing and Urban Developement: $33.5 billion, a decrease of 29.9% from last year (despite the mention in the state of the union address of helping poor people buy homes, which didnt make a lot of sense to me anyway but whatever)
I personally dont have a problem with listening to the president talk about the state of the union for about an hour once a year but to fill that hour with blatent lies really ticks me off.
