Bush vetoed bill for education, health care and job training; signed $459 billion Pentagon bill

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Bush vetoes domestic spending bill on health, education and jobs
By Brian Knowlton Published: November 13, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/13/america/cong.php

WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush vetoed a major spending measure on Tuesday that would have funded education, health care and job training programs, saying it contained too many special projects, even as he signed a $459 billion bill to increase the Pentagon's non-war funding.

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The veto announcement also came as top Democratic lawmakers were unveiling a new study on the "hidden costs" of the Iraq and Afghan wars. They said that if one included such factors as the higher cost of oil, lost productivity and interest payments on money borrowed to finance the wars, the real costs would nearly double, to more than $1.5 trillion.

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Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts and chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, attacked both the veto and the level of war spending. "Cancer research, investments in our schools, job training, protecting workers and many other urgent priorities have all fallen victim to a president who squanders billions of dollars in Iraq but is unwilling to invest in America's future," he said.

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Pelosi said the vetoed measure was "a bipartisan and fiscally responsible bill that addresses the priorities of the American people," from cancer research to veterans' health care. "At the same time," she said, "President Bush and his congressional allies demand hundreds of billions of dollars for the war in Iraq - none of it paid for."

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"The Congress now sitting in Washington holds this philosophy," he(Bush) said, according to an advance text of the speech. "Their majority was elected on a pledge of fiscal responsibility, but so far it is acting like a teenager with a new credit card."

[flordehinojos]

1. lets take a look at bush family hypocrisy.

Sitting with Chris Wallace on a recent Fox News Sunday ... Poppy had this to say about the Bush family:

Asked where he got his (gasp, gasp, gasp) "commitment to public service" -- Poppy answered:

"Some of it was from my parents. I watched my father, early age, not realizing what he was up to, doing a lot of charitable work. (I wonder what Poppy understands for charitable work just as much as i wonder what kind of charitable work Prescott Bush might have been doing when he was building Hitler up ... something here doesn't seem to jive.

Poppy goes on to say, "My mother pounded into us early on 'do something for others,' and so we started--we were so lucky from our parents we got. Then I went to a boarding school where part of the challenge was volunteering. "so we were lucky from the parents we got" pitted against the facts of Bush's life could be read something like: we were so lucky we didn't have it hard, and to drive our chauffeured car to some soup kitchen or din of the poor, throw them a few bread crumbs and then go back to our privileged home ... that was real lucky indeed... (and what did the Bushes really learn about charity and charitable giving? It looks like they learned didley squat, or they learned to hate charity as much as they hate the word liberal.

"Yale University had that ethos, and I did some extra-curricular kind of charitable stuff there, so it's always been part of my life, but I really believe it." (and what was the Yale ethos of charitable giving that he speaks to? And what was that "some extra-curricular kind of charitable STUFF" THAT HE DID THERE? Charitable STUFF??? STUFF??? How really learned and respectful of him!

And so his son in vetoing the bill which could help the health, education, and job training for quite a few less privileged Americans ... is showing America what the Bushes really know about Charity, Charitable Works, and Brotherhood.

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2. Nice post...

Everything falls together very nicely with the Bushes, doesn't it?

[dajoki]

3. kick

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. "Special projects" translates to "Things that will benefit people other than myself."

[dajoki]

5. "a teenager with a new credit card."

Bush is still acting that way with the war and his rich cronies.