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Bush Keeps War Cost Under Wraps
Truthout's Maya Schenwar reports: "President Bush's 2009 federal budget, released Monday, does not declare how much funding the administration expects to need for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan next... ...
Full cost excluded on Iraq, Afghanistan
Bush asked for $70 billion as an "emergency allowance" for war costs for the first part of the budget year, which begins Oct. 1. The White House said it would request more - probably at least another $100... ...
Federal Deficits Soaring Higher, Menacing the Future
Kevin G. Hall, of McClatchy Newspapers, writes: "President Bush took office in 2001 with a budget surplus, but his final budget proposal envisions federal deficits of more than $400 billion a year for... ...
Pentagon won't detail war spending plan
When the Pentagon unveils its budget request Monday for the next fiscal year, it will back away from a commitment it made to Congress just a year ago -- to estimate how much the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... ...
Pentagon Seeks Record Level in 2009 Budget
Thom Shanker, of The New York Times, writes: "As Congress and the public focus on more than $600 billion already approved in supplemental budgets to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for counterterrorism... ...
Bush Cuts Domestic Programs
Andrew Taylor, The Associated Press, reports: "President Bush wants to cut funding for teaching hospitals and freeze medical research in a $3 trillion budget for 2009 that is still likely to generate a... ...
Bush's Budget Lean on Domestic Programs
Kevin Freking, of The Associated Press, writes: "President Bush's 2009 budget will virtually freeze most domestic programs and seek nearly $200 billion in savings from federal health care programs, a senior... ...
War Spending Dwarfs Climate Change Measures
http://www.commondreams.or g/archive/2008/02/01/6784/ -------- Wars Dwarf Warming in US Budget Jim Lobe for the Inter Press Service reports, "Despite growing recognition in the Pentagon and the intelligence... ...
Bush Seeks Surplus via Medicare Cuts
New York Times's reporter Robert Pear reports: "in his new budget, to be unveiled Monday, President Bush will call for large cuts in the growth of Medicare, far exceeding what he proposed last year, and... ...
The Dollar's Reserve Currency Role is Drawing to an End
By Paul Craig Roberts If the world is unwilling to continue to accumulate dollars, the US will not be able to finance its trade deficit or its budget deficit. As both are seriously out of balance, the... ...