Reckless Public Debt Rising« Thread Started on May 22, 2004, 11:39pm »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Republican Public Debt Rising to $7 TRILLION -- alt.politics, 16:56:32 12/09/03 Tue From: grub@internet.charitydays.co.uk (grub@internet.charitydays.co.uk)Subject: Re: Bush's Public Debt Rising to $7 TRILLION View this article only Newsgroups: alt.politics, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.prophecies.nostradamus, talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.usa.republican, ia.talk.misc, seattle.politics, soc.culture.usaDate: 2003-12-08 22:20:10 PST >>Bush's Public Debt Rising to $7 TRILLION>>http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpdodt.htm>>---->More than 1/3 of the Bush Administration's Budget is Red Ink, which means>that Americans can soon prepare to be in debt to the tune of $7 TRILLION>under the reckless spending leadership of President George W. Bush.>>Bush to Fund a Third of Non-Social Security Spending This Year with Borrowed>Money>>http://www.ctj.org/html/debt0603.htm>>--->>I do have a problem with the Bush Administration's spending money like what>Senator John McCain referred to as a "drunken sailor." The White House Led>Omnibus Spending Bill is filled with wild pork (extravagant self-serving>spending projects for key Republican Congressional leaders' constitutents).>>$50,000,000 to build an indoor rainforest in Iowa.>>$2,000,000 for the First Tee Program, to get young people into golf.>>$405,000 for industrial lubricants research in Iowa.>>$338,000 for the Alabama Beef Connection.>>$225,000 for the National Wild Turkey federation, a hunting concern.>>$4,000,000 for the International Fertilizer Development Center.>>$595,000,000 for Trilogy, an FBI information technology program.>>$397,700,000 for prison buildings and facilities.>>$6,000,000 for a Police Athletic League.>>$30,000,000 for the Southwest Border Prosecutors Initiative.>>$7,105,000 for construction of an international narcotics control law>enforcement academy in Roswell, NM.>>Up to $120,000,000 for a classified Defense Department project.>>$250,000 for the General Patton Museum of Cavalry & Armor, in Kentucky.>>$225,000 for a shopping center in Adelanto, CA.>>$500,000 for the "Exercise in Hard Choices" at the U. of Akron, which>attempts to replicate House and Senate meetings in which congressional>members review a budget, and vote to include or exclude various options.>>Not all choices are so hard. This Omnibus spending bill must be stopped. Yes>I got a problem with what's going on.