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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (649769)	10/22/2004 2:27:18 PM
From: Kenneth V. McNutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It is? I thought the 1400B in annual mandatory spending programs was. I did not and do not agree corporate 'welfare' is the biggest part of our taxes which is why I inquired as which ones he referred to. Corporate 'welfare', of course, is a term coined by the left for their sympathizers. The porks(vote purchases) I cited were not all corporate and could be trimmed or eliminated. Remember the Clinton era farm subsidy elimination program pushed through by the Republicans, that soon came back bigger and more costly than ever. Soared to $38 billion or so last year. And you are correct. The majority, some 60%, of the budget is 'mandatory'. Try to take back some of Robert Byrd's pork road projects that go nowhere, only to end at an isolated Robert Byrd Library with no clients. Shame. We mustn't forget the $15 billion stolen by the daring duo Kerry/Kennedy for the Boston Big Dig fraud which began as a much ballyhooed $2 billion project until the locals saw how easy it was to steal from. It was the local oil-for-food program. I suspect many of the daring duos friends got wealthy on that scam. Much of it stolen by the local crooks, unions and the Mafia, but no investigations found any wrong doing. I wish Bush had used his veto power, but that is in the past now. He must exercise it in the future when he is re-elected. KERRY....TRAITOR/LIAR KM