How Bush solves everything: cut healthcare & social security; wage more war

If the Democrats we just elected to the majority of seats can't adequately debate the insanity of these policies, we should throw them all out and hand over Congress to whatever kindergarten class is willing to take the job.

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>>President Bush, poised to submit his new budget to Congress next week, warned Saturday that unless programs like Medicare and Social Security are changed, future generations will face tax hikes, government red ink or huge cuts in benefits...

...Mr. Bush will ask for $100 billion more for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior Pentagon official said Friday. Those requests come on top of about $344 billion spent for Iraq since the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein...

...To address the growth of entitlement programs, Mr. Bush's budget proposal contains about a 1 percentage point cut in the rapid growth in Medicare to squeeze about $66 billion in savings over five years from the federal health care program for the elderly...

...White House budget director Rob Portman said Friday that Mr. Bush's plan will result in a budget surplus in 2012. That's assuming strong growth in tax revenues, continued cuts on domestic agency spending and other cuts to farm programs, Medicare and the Medicaid health care program for the poor and disabled.<<