Posted 2/04/2008 05:23:00 PM by Douglas

I'm scratching my head at what about Bush could possibly be construed as conservative. Case in point, the new budget.

President Bush introduced a $3.1 trillion budget on Monday that supports sizable increases in military spending to fight the war on terrorism and protects his signature tax cuts.

The spending proposal, which shows the government spending $3 trillion in a 12-month period for the first time in history, squeezes most of government outside of national security, and also seeks $196 billion in savings over the next five years in the government's giant health care programs -- Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for the poor.

$3.1 Trillion?!? That's $10,000 for every human being in this country! Are you getting your $10,000 worth? I guess I should take solace in the fact that we're not getting the government we pay for.

Even with those savings, Bush projects that the deficits, which had been declining, will soar to near-record levels, hitting $410 billion this year and $407 billion in 2009.

The all-time high deficit in dollar terms was $413 billion in 2004.

For his last budget, Bush, as a moneysaving measure, stopped the practice of providing 3,000 paper copies of the budget to members of Congress and the media, instead posting the entire document online.

Wow, saving paper costs on 3,000 copies of the budget! That's gotta be at least a Billionth of a percent of the total budget! Momma can finally get that operation!