Bush Wants “Big Jump” In Defense Spending
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Now this is the kind of spending I can get behind. It only makes sense for our country to spend more on protecting our borders during this time of international crisis.
This is how Bush should be spending out tax dollars, not on more endowments for artists who can't sell their work. I don't have anything against the arts. In fact, I feel very strongly that the arts are vital to our culture, but right now there are better things for our government to be spending its money on.
The Bush administration will ask Congress to boost spending on missile defense by $1.2 billion next year and nearly double funding to modernize the Army in the $401.7 billion U.S. military budget for 2005, according to Pentagon documents released on Friday.
The defense plan is part of a proposed $2.3 trillion federal budget President Bush will send to lawmakers on Monday. It includes a 7 percent increase in defense spending over the current level of $375 billion.
Now this is the kind of spending I can get behind. It only makes sense for our country to spend more on protecting our borders during this time of international crisis.
This is how Bush should be spending out tax dollars, not on more endowments for artists who can't sell their work. I don't have anything against the arts. In fact, I feel very strongly that the arts are vital to our culture, but right now there are better things for our government to be spending its money on.
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