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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (287134)5/10/2006 4:23:27 PM
From: tejek   of 1576177
 
Funny Money on Iraq
President Bush is trying to score unearned points for fiscal rectitude by railing against the Senate's outsize $109 billion supplemental spending package, which includes money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as hurricane relief. But the real scandal is Mr. Bush's own preference for financing much of the cost of the Iraq war outside the normal budget process. That is convenient for the administration, which does not have to count the money when it is pretending to balance the budget. But Iraq is not some kind of unexpected emergency, like Hurricane Katrina. It is a highly predictable cost, now amounting to about $100 billion a year, or just under 20 percent of total military spending.

Isn't it great the way they tie the money for the war or for pork with something like Katrina or help for seniors? I wonder how pens work in signing these bills when they have to cut through so much slime.
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