Budget Seeks $459M for Iraq Programs

[bluedog]

*****************give me a fu'ing break............

By KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press Writer



The request for funding for economic development, law enforcement and refugee programs comes even though the Bush administration has yet to spend most of the previously approved nonmilitary aid.

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The $2.57 trillion budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 does not include new funding for the Iraq war. Within a few days, Bush is expected to request $81 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (news - web sites) for the rest of 2005. Congress has already approved $25 billion for this year.

Of the $459 million proposal, $360 million would be under an economic support fund that pays for private sector development and other economic programs, the White House official said.

The figure also includes $42.4 million in refugee assistance, $30 million for nonproliferation and disarmament and $26.5 million in narcotics and law enforcement funding.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=1&u=/ap/20050208/ap_on_go_pr_wh/budget_iraq

[MichiganVote]

1. Today I drove over probably a hundred potholes

and I thought to myself, this is my country. Where we cannot even keep our streets in repair. Where is the justice in working hard and having to accept less and less for the sake of those with liquid gold in their land that they refuse to quit fighting over?

I am so sick of this country's bullshit with the budget.

[CountAllVotes]

2. you are right of course

I got sickened today myself. The dentist's secretary is about to give birth. Will work right up until she goes into labor and will have a whole 6 weeks off. Her husband works at night so he'll take care of the new baby during the day while she works.

I'm sure both of them make minimum wage. What a messed up world we live in when funding a war without end is more important that funding a woman with a newborn baby.

I guess no child left behind means leave both parents behind in the meantime.

Sickening! Just say NO to another bunch of millions of dollars spent to do nothing but KILL KILL KILL! :grr:

:kick:

[MichiganVote]

3. And you know, low or low middle income families can't even

take care of their houses anymore. More and more it looks like America is poor. Unless of course you're driving in the high end. Even there, you'll find closed communities whose roads are closed to the public. We live in strange times...

[LynnTheDem]

4. While bush cuts & guts 150 US programs like food stamps

and farm subsidies and housing grants and Pell grants and and and

[MichiganVote]

5. Really. Its like he caught the wife running up the charge card.

The it turns out he's the big spender afterall. Well its clear, put a Bush in office and anyone who works for a living is going to get screwed. So we're screwed.

[lovuian]

6. 459 Mill could go for Medicaid and helping get insurance for

people who can't afford it!!!

[CountAllVotes]

7. yeah or housing for the disabled

or veteran's benefits, or food stamps or a zillion other things that people in this country do not have! I wonder if anyone realizes that all of the money spent of this B.S. war would be enough to have insured EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN for the next decade! :wtf: is wrong with our country.

People living in cars and on the streets. Poverty and no jobs and yet, yeah lets dump another $459 million into a country where we ARE NOT WANTED while the people here in America do without! :grr: again :grr:

:kick:

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. This is all for the cause of "freedom"

what ever that is.

[driver8]

9. Oh My God...someone shoot me, please!!!!!!!

I cannot take much more of the shrub's dismantling of our country. Please -- put me out of my misery...

This really pisses me off. He is basically telling the citizens of the United States that the Iraqi's are more important than we are and therefore, deserve our hard earned tax money.

459 million is a lot of clams!