Bush Wants Increase in Domestic Security Spending

[hadrons]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seizing on an issue critical to Americans and his own re-election campaign, President Bush (news - web sites) will propose boosting domestic security spending by about 9 percent in his 2005 budget, congressional sources said on Monday.

The White House declined to comment on the reported increase -- one of the biggest in Bush's new budget scheduled for release on Feb. 2. Counter-terrorism efforts at home will be a major component of Bush's State of the Union address on Tuesday.


As part of the broader war on terrorism, Bush is expected to nearly double U.S. aid to Afghanistan (news - web sites) to nearly $1 billion in his budget for fiscal year 2005. The country has been hit by a new wave of violence from Taliban elements and possibly al Qaeda despite the U.S.-led invasion.


Bush will also propose a five-year, $1 billion increase in NASA (news - web sites)'s budget, which is now about $15 billion, as part of a new initiative aimed at sending American spacecraft back to the moon and on to Mars.


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But under pressure from his conservative base to rein in record federal budget deficits, the Republican president's $2.3 trillion budget for 2005 will call for limiting spending growth in most other government programs to under 4 percent, White House aides say.


The deficit could top $500 billion this fiscal year alone.
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Ahhh, good old fiscal responsibly GOP :eyes:

[aquart]

1. I wouldn't trust a Republican to figure a lunch check.

[rumguy]

2. What does Bush not want to spend more money on?

Seriously, he is spending money like a drunken sailor. He must know that he can't meet all these promises...so I figure that much of it is cynical window dressing...

[Just Me]

3. HOW'S ABOUT INCREASED SPENDING AGAINST CORRUPT POLITICIANS!!!

I want my damn tax-paying dollars ensuring transparency and accountability of people like YOU, George W. Bush & Dick(less) Cheney & Arms-dealin' Rumsfeld & War-wieldin' Wolfowitz & Prince-of-Darkness Perle & WWIV Woosley & the rest of those "Freon Neocons"!!!!

[Just Me]

4. That would be REAL "homeland security"!!!!

Secure my "homeland" against greedy, crafty, heartless, blood-sucking, predators against humanity!!!!

[RC]

5. Put bu$h and his criminal cabinet in prison

and the world terrorist threat would all but disappear in a few years.

[belab13]

6. read domestic surveillance spending.

[shanti]

7. get ready to bend over, people!

he's on his way again!

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Just exactly who is the enemy here?

Is it our neighbors? The guy in lane next to us on the freeway? the other people in the supermarket?
Talk about the use of fear to influence a stupid populace.

This bush bastard has gone nuts. He is floating some of the weirdest plans that have ever been imagined. He is getting scary.

[Mari333]

9. Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!

this is pure politics, and thats all..election year horsehockey as usual...he hasnt got a thing to run on...he says throw money at something, but there is nothing going to be sent anywhere...unfortunately many people lap it up, despite the facts that there is no money to send anywhere and its smoke and mirrors again.

[radfringe]

11. rabbits out of hats...smoke and mirrors....

this is why I refer to him as the HOCUS-POTUS

[radfringe]

10. one question

How is he going to PAY for it?

scuttlebutt is that he wants another wealth-fare taxcut....