Bush budget: Cut American domestic budget, spend more on foreign wars

The proprities of the Bush and Republican budget is well known. Cut every dollar you can that will benefit the vast majority of Americans, spend considerably more on wars half way around the world, and go deeper into debt.

$3T Bush budget to trim domestic programs

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.

At the same time, Bush's budget request will propose cost curbs on Medicare providers, a cap on subsidy payments to wealthier farmers and an increase to $4,600 in the maximum Pell Grant for low-income college students.