Naked Budget
Remember all the fun we had every March when George W. Bush would post his proposed budget online and we could scroll through the details, finding all the corporate giveaways and crony contracts and social welfare cuts to call to everyone's attention and get our congress critters to deal with?
No? Oh, yeah, that's right: Smirky/Darth's budgets were all kept secret from, you know, we the people.
No more. President Obama's proposed 2010 budget is online. Every detail. Naked. Uncut. In front of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and everybody.
In keeping with my commitment to make our government more open and transparent, this budget is an honest accounting of where we are and where we intend to go. For too long, our budget has not told the whole truth about how precious tax dollars are spent. Large sums have been left off the books, including the true cost of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. And that kind of dishonest accounting is not how you run your family budgets at home; it's not how your government should run its budgets, either. We need to be honest with ourselves about what costs are being racked up -- because that's how we'll come to grips with the hard choices that lie ahead.
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A man of, by, and for the people---exactly what we ALWAYS need! Corporate America has been using and abusing our Congress and President for years, and let's hope that now Obama will put a screetching halt to that to that corruption!
The only sad part of this tale is that the rite-wing will tear into this with a vengance and misrepresent reality. Marcus Carey is gonna have a field day.
We need a damge control party with whom we can communicate to counter his bullshit.
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