Monday, February 04, 2008
3,100,000,000,000
That's a whole 'lot o' zeros! It's also the proposed U.S. Budget (in US dollars) for the fiscal year ahead. By the way, that represents 3.1 trillion. Split amongst every citizen of the United States, everyone would get $10,000! Instead, increases are inline with defence concerns: 7.5% for the Defence Department, 11% for Homeland Security and 17% for customs and immigration. Yow! All this while trying to cut $200 billion dollars (over 5 years) from Medicare and Medicaid. I think you can pick up that I am not a big fan of U.S. government priorities. Then again, I'm not a big fan of Canadian government priorities for the most part either. Thankfully they're not throwing the same amount of money around.
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It's enough to make me steam from the ears to think of how much money has been spent fighting this illegitimate war that could actually have been used for better schools, social security and medical coverage for US citizens. But, just as you said, our priorities seem to be quite far from that of the US government!
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