Deficit Is $521 Billion In Bush Budget: "President Bush's $2.4 trillion budget for the fiscal year that begins in October will leave the government $521 billion in the red. But by trimming domestic spending and eliminating up to 65 federal programs, the White House expects to cut the deficit to $237 billion by 2009, White House officials said yesterday.
...congressional sources said they expect Bush to request deep cuts in energy, agricultural and environmental programs."

Cutting the deficit to $237 Billion by 2009 is meant to be an achievment? This guy had a surplus when he was appointed. He's running up a $2 Trillion deficit, and all the media say is that he'll reduce the deficit by half in 6 years? And we're meant to believe that?

This is completely outrageous. Most of that money is going into the pockets of people earning $1 Million a year, so he's borrowing about $1 Trillion that we'll have to pay back to give to the richest people on the planet. It's sheer robbery. It's the biggest heist in history.
- posted by geoff @ #