Well, it’s clear now where the funding for those tax cuts is coming from.

“The Bush administration has told officials who oversee federal education, domestic security, veterans and other programs to prepare preliminary 2006 budgets that would cut spending after the presidential election”

That’s right. The president, who is currently going around touting programs whose budgets he had tried to cut, is planning to put those programs up on the block:

Homeland Security Department 3% cut
Education 2.4% cut
Veterans Affairs 3.4% cut
EPA 2.6% cut
NIH 2.1% cut
Interior Department 1.9% cut

Defense Department 4.3% increase

What do you think the chances are that the increase for the defense department is going towards soldiers pay?

There is, of course, much compassion from conservatives about the issue.

“But with the budget deficit exceeding $400 billion this year, tough and painful cuts are unavoidable, said Brian M. Riedl…”I think the public is ready for spending cuts,” Riedl said. “Not only does the public understand there’s a lot of waste in the federal budget, but the public is ready to make sacrifices during the war on terror.” ”

Ready to make sacrifices for the war on terror? With cuts in education spending while corporate welfare continues? Apparently sacrifices are to be made only by those who are least able to make them–those who are poor. Corporate welfare to help those who are already rich, is to continue unabated.

It confounds me to try and understand what Bush bases his “Christianity” upon, for it certainly isn’t Christianity I was raised in.

(via Body and Soul)