You know, all those terrible liberals keep complaining that Mr Bush is consistently failing to look after his people. They want welfare handouts, and lots of them. Well, all you liberals, Mr Bush has heard your pleas and in his budget is to hand out $184.2bn in tax payers money, specifically for welfare.
CORPORATE welfare, that is - not citizen welfare.
From Think Progress:
Last week, President Bush submitted his $515.4 billion defense spending budget for FY ‘09. Contained within that budget is a windfall for defense contractors — "$104.2 billion for weapons procurement and nearly $80 billion for research and development." This budget is 7.5 percent higher than the current year’s.
Even Defense experts are surprised at how generous the Bush administration is willing to be with the taxpayers’ money, in light of a faltering economy and deep cuts to domestic programs:
"The expectation has been that it can’t continue to increase as it has," Phil Finnegan, a defense analyst at the Teal Group in Fairfax, said of defense spending. "But it has surprised everyone to see how long this increase has continued. This budget was a great budget for all defense contractors." [...]
"The fiscal year 2009 budget may be about as good as it gets for defense contractors," said Steve Kosiak, vice president of budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. "We have had eight years of quite dramatic growth in [the Defense Department’s] weapons acquisition accounts. Whoever the next president is, it is unlikely that we are going to continue a major buildup.
So there you have it, all these crucial welfare schemes will all come to an end if a dastardly liberal gets in to power. The corporations must be protected from the danger of a Democrat President undoing all the vast profits they've been making under the Bush administration.
And if you say anything different, well, some of that money has already gone to building private internment camps. Where, no doubt, Blackwater USA can get a bit of extra practice to perfect their waterboarding techniques...