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February 4th, 2007

2007 02 04

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Big Price Tag

CNN says 9/11 security changes come with big price tag:

A bill to enact the 9/11 Commission recommendations — one of the first bills passed by the new Democratic-led House of Representatives — will cost $21 billion over five years if enacted into law, congressional budget officials said Friday.

See, there’s big, and then there’s BIG:

The Bush administration will ask for another $100 billion for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior administration official said Friday.

Good thing the kids and grandkids are picking up the tab for all this.

2007 02 04

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Debt and Texans

Suddenly George W. Bush is worried about future generations:

President Bush, poised to submit his new budget to Congress next week, insisted 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. …

“Unless we act, we will saddle our children and grandchildren with tens of trillions of dollars of unfunded obligations,” Bush said.

George W. Bush has done more than any human being in the history of the planet to push current debts off onto future generations, so please excuse me if I don’t quite believe this new concern for “our children and grandchildren.”

2007 02 04

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Never Learn

George W. Bush never said that global warming wasn’t real. He only said, year after year after year, that the matter needed more study.

Six years into his administration, there has been study after study, and the answer seems inescapable: global warming is real, it’s caused by humans, and the results will be catastrophic. And the Bush Administration will stay the course:

Despite a strongly worded global warming report from the world’s top climate scientists, the Bush administration expressed continued opposition Friday to mandatory reductions in heat-trapping “greenhouse” gases.

The one thing we must never do is learn.