John McCain is running for President, but he’s also a United States Senator. In that role, it’s McCain’s duty to vote for or vote to amend, the yearly budget for the federal government, as proposed by the President of the United States.
This year, George W. Bush has proposed a federal budget that breaks all previous records in the size of its spending. The new Bush budget will be over three trillion dollars in size, and that doesn’t even count the hundreds of billions of dollars that will be spent in budget supplementals in order continue the failing American military occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.
No Democratic President has ever proposed a budget that’s anywhere close to that size. Republican President George W. Bush has been widely accepted now as the worst President in American history. Americans are rightly left baffled at how Bush could spend so much money and have so much failure to show for it.
John McCain is significantly to blame for the record-breaking spending of George W. Bush, and for Bush’s failures. In the past, McCain has supported both. Now, McCain has the chance to break with his record of indulging in the extravagant failures of the Bush White House.
John McCain has a choice to make, as a presidential candidate and as a United States Senator: Will he support the record-breaking three billion dollar federal government budget proposed by George W. Bush, or will he vote it down?
Three trillion dollar budget? Is this a fucking joke?
No joke. Specifics of the plan, which with especial cruelty will include cuts, are out today.
No surprise how big it is, and of course McCain and other republicans will support it with vigor (except for the additions democrats will want to make).
The federal budget (as well as federal revenues) almost always increase every year regardless of the balancedness of the budget or the changes in tax code. So it’s not the fairest question, but of course progressives would have spent the money better and conservatives are always decrying non-military spending.
Of course it’s a fair question. The reason it’s fair is that Republicans tell everyone they’re against big government spending. That’s absurd.
The difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats actually want to fund the spending, whereas the Republicans just want to borrow the money, and then somehow fairies will sprinkle pixie dust to pay for it all, plus the interest, some time in the future.
Notice the military gets a BIG increase while virtually all domestic programs are frozen or reduced. Ah, warmongering . . .
I liked today’s articles with more on the specific bugetary allotments better. This one was just inviting accusations of hypocrisy when senators and progressives endorse the Clinton/Obama administration’s $3.3 trillion budget next year.