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BUSH'S BUDGET TSUNAMI
Bush's
$2.75 trillion budget proposal is a financial tsunami. And, like an oceanic
tsunami that hits the lowland shore the hardest, it hits the low level income
population the hardest.
For
instance the Bush budget cuts "discretionary spending" a name for
social welfare programs. Senator
Maria Cantwell reports that the Community Access Program that provides 53,000
uninsured children in King County alone to get dentistry, checkups for
disabilities and immunizations, will be eliminated. If you add in all the
counties in the country, that adds up to many thousands of ill children left to
home remedies of risky value , or no remedy at a miserable loss of life.
The
tsunami budget does not include the costs of the Iraq war which will apparently
go on indefinitely at the cost of untold billions more in deficit spending.
It does not include the cost of Social Security privatization running to sone
or two trillion. It is becoming a federal financial crisis that can lead to
national bankruptcy according to many economists in the daily press.
It
is hard to figure what the Bush gang is up to. Are they deliberately creating a
crisis? They may be doing just that,
but we do not have to blame a conspiracy. They
are rather caught in a system that is itself teetering on collapse.
They are desperate. They are caught in the last gasp of conservatism.
Instead of this being a period of growth of conservatism, it is rather
like the last round of a lost boxing match. They are on their last legs - and
they know it. Instead of providing
an "ownership" society, they are providing a phony remedy to a default
society.
This
all adds up to a dangerous threat to our welfare.
We need to take preventive action. Our
responsibility is to save our country from disaster. We need to build the labor
movement. We need to fully engage in
political action, to rally behind all the peoples' movements for a better world.
Join and support financially such groups as peace, jobs, human rights,
social welfare rights, environmental protection and the many other such groups
in the front line of struggle for the welfare of the country.
For
"life,
liberty and the
pursuit of happiness."
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