After running up a huge deficit, President Bush calls on Congress to cut spending

“WASHINGTON - President Bush said Wednesday he’ll submit a five-year budget
proposal that will balance the federal budget by 2012 and called on Congress to
sharply cut back on costly pet projects hidden in spending bills.”

President Bush submitted his 5 year Budget Plan today and with it he says it will balance the Federal Budget by 2012. It seems to me that we heard this before and we are still faced with a huge deficit, which he caused.

The reason we are in the fiscal mess we are in now is because of Bush’s War and the Republican lead Congress has bankrupted the Treasury. The war has cost tax payers half a trillion dollars over the past 3 years and it looks like it will be over a trillion dollars before we finally pull our troops out.

That money could have gone to a lot better use; the Hurricane Katrina rebuilding in the Gulf Coast. Instead we just keep tossing money down a hole, all for the Middle East oil. President Bush needs to come to grips with the reality that he has failed the American people and he needs to resign.

This ridiculous 5 year plan calls on Congress to fix his fiscal irresponsibility’s over his 6 years in the White House and it also would set the tone for his replacement in 2008. Just simply asking the Congress to curb pet projects in spending bills is not going to fix our Federal Deficit, we need to raise taxes on the wealthy and curb spending.