Bush says budget will limit non-defense spending (Yahoo News)
President George W. Bush said on Saturday his upcoming budget proposal would emphasize restraint on domestic spending while making defense and war costs for Iraq and Afghanistan the top priority.
Bush, who addressed House of Representatives Democrats at their retreat in Williamsburg, Virginia, on Saturday, also called for a bipartisan effort to rein in entitlement programs, such as the Medicare health program for older Americans.
"Controlling spending also requires us to address the unsustainable growth of entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid," Bush said. "Spending for these programs is growing faster than inflation, faster than our economy, and faster than our ability to pay for it."
Bush's budget will propose squeezing about $70 billion in savings from the Medicare and Medicaid health programs over the next five years, an administration official said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070204/bs_nm/bush_budget_dc_7Bush's M.O.:
Let old people die in America, so we can kill more people overseas! :mad:
The Democrats in Congress had damned well better not pass this budget, or else the Dems won't win jack sh*t in 2008. They weren't elected to rubber-stamp this retarded chimp's insane policies!