From Thinkprogress:
The Democratic leadership in Congress is set to pass a host of domestic funding bills that would exceed Bush’s request by $22 billion. The extra funding would help go towards veterans health care, infrastructure improvements, education, and other domestic priorities.
Speaking to business leaders at a White House event this morning, Bush railed against the relatively modest increase in spending, arguing that $22 billion is “a lot of money”:
Some in Congress will tell you that $22 billion is not a lot of money. As business leaders, you know better. As a matter of fact, $22 billion is larger than the annual revenues of most Fortune 500 companies. The $22 billion is only for the first year. With every passing year the number gets bigger and bigger, and so over the next five years the increase in federal spending would add up to $205 billion.
It shouldn’t take a “CEO President” to figure out that $200 billion is greater than $22 billion.
No surprise there for the pass 6 years the taxpayers money has gone everywhere but to suppport the American people. People forget the rubber stamp Congress. Notice not out cry from the American people as Bush/Cheney give Trillions of dollars to contract killers ( Blackwater ) and the big business deals yet we watched Katriina victims suffer while still told to pay their taxes.
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