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Biggest Federal Budget Ever Slams Working Families
It's the first federal budget ever to top $3 trillion, and still the Bush administration manages to put the screws to workers, senior citizens, the sick, the poor and the rest of America's vulnerable citizens.
Critics of the mammoth proposed budget for fiscal year 2009 include many of the nation's newspaper editorial boards who are decrying it as "disastrous," "shameful" and "foolish," with the New York Times dismissing as "nonsense" the president's claims about balancing the budget by 2012.
The proposed budget would slash funding for Medicare and Medicaid by 30 percent and add to the Pentagon's budget by the same percentage – not counting war funding. Further, the White House wants to cut $760 million in job training programs, reduce funds for occupational safety and health research, slash $83 million for medical screening of 9/11 Ground Zero responders, and all but eliminate an agency that fights child labor.
Congressional leaders have indicated that major portions of the proposed budget are unacceptable and that it will be drastically altered before final passage.
Critics of the mammoth proposed budget for fiscal year 2009 include many of the nation's newspaper editorial boards who are decrying it as "disastrous," "shameful" and "foolish," with the New York Times dismissing as "nonsense" the president's claims about balancing the budget by 2012.
The proposed budget would slash funding for Medicare and Medicaid by 30 percent and add to the Pentagon's budget by the same percentage – not counting war funding. Further, the White House wants to cut $760 million in job training programs, reduce funds for occupational safety and health research, slash $83 million for medical screening of 9/11 Ground Zero responders, and all but eliminate an agency that fights child labor.
Congressional leaders have indicated that major portions of the proposed budget are unacceptable and that it will be drastically altered before final passage.