Headline in today's Dallas Mourning News says that 700 local senior citizens -- and 59,000 others nationwide -- have been cut from a federal commodities program which provided them with a 25 pound box of food essentials each month.
The reason?
It was too costly.
Headline in today's Washington Post to the effect that President Bush is increasing "humanitarian" foreign aid -- and one paragraph particularly caught my eye...
Budget figures show that Bush will propose $9.5 billion for bilateral humanitarian and development assistance, about $2.1 billion more than the current level. That would make aid one of the few areas of nondefense spending to get an increase under a budget that administration officials have described as the most restrained in years.
The main reason for the increase is doubling funds given to the Millennium Challenge Corp., a new agency set up under presidential initiative to direct funds to "poor countries with sound policies."
This from a president who campaigned on the theme of government being too bigand in need of trimming -- another new government agency.
Bush's proposed budget calls for more spending than any other president in American history has.
Lyndon Baines Johnson and George W. Bush -- presidents from Texas.
One thing you have to admit about the Lone Star state's contribution to the White House.. we create presidents who know how to spend our money.
Monday, February 06, 2006
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