So the budget submitted by the President to Congress is here and there are some highlights I'd like to point out. First, the budget tops out at 2.9 trillion dollars; that's 2,900,000,000,000 dollars; with a revenue of 2.66 trillion dollars, leaving us with a continuing shortfall of 0.24 trillion dollars - 240 billion dollars this year!
It's funny that this is almost the exact amount Bush is asking Congress to further fund the war.
Aside from that, I noticed that Bush has increased spending on fossil fuel and nuclear development while cutting the expenditures for the Energy Department's Renewable energy lab by 3 percent. Wait, didn't we just hear him say in the State of the Union address that we need to cut gasoline usage by 20% by 2017? And we should do this in part by increasing the use of renewable fuel sources?
It's hard to take anyone seriously when they say one thing and do another - when my kids do that, they get reprimanded. So what's the deal?
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