Monday, February 06, 2006

budgets gone wild!

is it fair to print the headline "Bush aims to tame deficits with domestic cuts" when bush's budget will increase the deficit?

sure, he's proposing to cut domestic entitlement programs, but he's also proposing an increase in military spending and tax reform that will cost the u.s. government more than the entitlement cuts will save.

that's not "deficit taming" at all. it's cutting the programs he doesn't like and throwing money at the stuff he does like. at the end of the day, this is a budget that will increase the deficit.