From (tee hee) Andy Taylor of the AP, an almost apologetic review of Bush’s disdain for the under privileged in America:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The spiraling growth of Medicare and the high cost of renewing President Bush’s tax cuts are squeezing popular education, health, housing and anti-poverty programs in the budget blueprint that he hands lawmakers Monday.

Even with difficult-to-digest proposals to curb Medicare costs and kill programs to repair dilapidated public housing, fund community action agencies and provide food to the elderly poor, Bush’s $3 trillion budget will project deficits around $400 billion this year and next.

Bush’s submission is already absorbing brickbats from Democrats castigating him for inheriting a government in surplus and leaving Washington with a budget deficit that is likely to break the $413 billion record set four years ago, once war bills and the cost of giving the economy a fiscal jolt with tax rebate checks are factored in.

So, to sum up: American Poor: screw ’em; Iraqi Poor: Screw ’em; Afghanistani Poor: Where’s Afghanistan? That sums it up.

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