ANOTHER-- MUCH WORSE-- REVERSE ROBIN HOOD BUDGET FROM THE DISGRACEFUL ANTI-CHRISTIAN BUSH REGIME

Today the Bush Regime presented its 2007 fiscal year Budget to his rubber stamp Congress for its rubber stamp. It's even more catastrophic than most people expected. Like the overwhelming majority of people who love our country and have read through it, I am absolutely horrified. Clinton made governing look so easy, that the citizens got too mellow and even while we watched Bush's very motivated and salivating thugs stealing the 2000 election, no one took to the streets. We've been paying the price ever since. In fact the whole world has been. And all the while BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN GENERATIONAL WEALTH is being created for favored Regime supporters. If you don't understand that the Bush "philosophy" of governance is all about stealing everything and redistributing it all upward, you've missed the whole point of the last 6 years. (Sure, Norquist's idea of drowning government in a bathtub is nice, but it's always been all about the Benjamins for the Bushes-- and Cheney.)

Today the brilliant Bob Scheer did a piece for TRUTHDIG! about the Bush budget called "Take From the Poor, Give to the Military" and although the 7% increase for "The Pentagon"-- or, more to the point, for Bush Regime supporters in the contracting businesses (plus the 3.3% increase for "Homeland Security or, again, more to the point, for Bush Regime supporters in the contracting businesses)-- looks like "the military" is the big gainer from this hideously political budget, the actual big gainers-- as in all things Bush-- are the wealthy and the political and financial backers of this most partisan of all regimes. The losers, of course, are whichever segments of society the predatory right-wing ideologues could find who are weak and "unprotected." There are frighteningly steep cuts in health care, environmental protection, mass transit, agriculture, assistance for the needy and elderly and, of course, for education. (And slimiest of all was Bush's unending mania about destroying Social Security. Though his vile plans were soundly defeated on the field on public opinion, Allan Sloan in today's WASHINGTON POST exposed how the sneaky little bloodsucker still won't leave it alone. Read "Bush's Social Security Sleight of Hand".

Medicaid patients will be forking over higher co-payments and deductibles. College loans will be more costly for students from working and middle class homes. Bye-bye federal aid for child support enforcement. And while you're at it, you ladies getting government assistance, you're just gonna have to work a little bit harder. And rich folks will share not at all in the sacrifice but will reap more benefits to make up for the taxes the wealthy had to pay going all the way back since FDR came along and saved capitalism from Bush-like excesses in the 1920's!

As the fascist pig president prepares to send another $120 BILLION to the ratholes of Iraq and Afghanistan, I listened to a run down of some of the programs singled out for elimination, almost entirely programs for society's most needy, and it nearly broke my heart: food for low-income seniors, assistance for disadvantaged students seeking to finish high school and go to college, preventive healthcare for "under-served populations"... Bush seeks to cut $105 billion out of Medicare, gut the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the National Institute of Health (particularly singling out programs dealing with cancer, blood diseases and heart and lung diseases for the Bush touch). His cuts to Federal education funding-- at every level-- are the biggest in the entire history of our country.

Remember the first responders-- firefighters, policemen, emergency medical services? Cuts across the board for all, from over 50% to 80%. You live in an area with a meth problem? You're on your own, suckers; the programs are eliminated. (This is especially interesting since at least one recent study purports that counties with meth addiction problems are as strong a base for Bush politics as are the religionist fanatics!) But one of my favorite ironies is that he's also trying to cut the Army Corps of Engineers by over 11%-- you know, the men and women trying to fix the mess he made of New Orleans. And speaking of gross Bush hypocrisy, he sure is shoveling a lot of billions towards the lobby-rich military contractor businesses but when it comes to supporting the troops-- more proof that the greatest catastrophe that happened to our nation since the Civil War is spelled B-U-S-H. When it comes to medical care, veterans and their families are treated with the contempt with which the Bush family and their wealthy allies hold all people of modest means. Even enlisted men will suffer, grievously, in the healthcare arena from Bush's hatred of the non-rich as health care enrollment fees double and triple. So called "middle income" veterans ($27,000 to $40,000/year) are kicked out of the VA programs and prescription drugs double for all vets.

I have no doubt the non-existent Republican moderates will do nothing significant to help and I've long given up on the pathetic Democratic minority in either house. But if the Democratic Party can't at least turn this outrageous budget into a winning campaign platform, it is totally time for a complete revamping. You know what... that time passed long ago. But I have another idea for a solution I'll try to remember to mention tomorrow; it's something Trent Lott made me think of.


FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE: GEORGE BUSH BLITHELY RIPPING APART OUR SOCIAL FABRIC

Yesterday, the Associated Press put together a list of 141 programs that Bush's reverse Robin Hood Budget will either eliminate out-right or devastate. Watch how your congressman and senator vote on the worst, most harmful and most far-reaching budget in American history.