Here's a fun fact: President Bush’s defense plan calls for $1.2 million to be spent per second, while millions of dollars are being cut from crucial programs in his new budget. Our kids, our police officers, our teachers and middle class families are all supposed to do without while the President rewards defense contractors with huge sweetheart deals. That's just not the America I think any of us want to live in anymore. Yet. his rhetoric is now all about "fiscal responsibility" and he has chosen to take that stand on earmarks. I've said it before, we are not going to sit by and be lectured to by a guy who has created the single highest deficits in the history of our country. Oh but wait, there's more, The President has littered the bill with executive earmarks, how about that for hypocracy.
The President requested $894,000 for an air traffic control tower in Kalamazoo, Mich., $3 million for a forest conservation project in Minnesota, and $6.5 million for research in Wyoming on the “fundamental properties of asphalt.” He sought $12 million for a parachute repair shop at the American air base in Aviano, Italy, $2.1 million for a neutrino detector at the South Pole and $28 million for General Electric and Siemens to do research on hydrogen-fuel turbines. The President has yet again shown he has no intention of working with us.
Meanwhile, Ohioans are faced with cuts toward crucial programs. The Byrne Justice Assistance Grants are a great example. In the Bush Budget, a decrease of about $5.5 million dollars will be pushed toward this program, resulting in the loss of 122 police officers. The grants provide funding to states and local law enforcement agencies for crime prevention, law enforcement, prosection, drug treatment, corrections, and performance improvement. As a result of budget cuts made by President Bush to this program in past years, violent crime has increased in both of the last two years he did so. I will continue to specify the harming details of the Bush Budget as the week continues. See the chart below.
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