disrupter
08-09-2007, 04:32 PM
This past week the Senate approved a $40.6 billion homeland-security bill that includes many of the border-security measures that were part of the now-defunct immigration-reform bill.
The homeland-security measure is $3 billion more than President Bush asked for and the Senate Democrats intended, but border security is a hot political issue and the bill also contains politically popular grants to local police, fire and rescue agencies.
The president has threatened to veto it because of the extra money, but the margin, 89-4, suggests it would be a futile gesture. Bush, who nonchalantly watched federal spending increase almost 60 percent on his watch, has suddenly become concerned about money now that Democrats are doing the spending. http://www.morningsentinel.com/news/2007/0807/Commentary_Cent/011.html
It is all about priorities.
Bush wants to create more terrorism looting Iraqi oil
instead of securing this nation's borders.
In bed with corrupt corporate crooks again,
at the expense of American citizens.
The homeland-security measure is $3 billion more than President Bush asked for and the Senate Democrats intended, but border security is a hot political issue and the bill also contains politically popular grants to local police, fire and rescue agencies.
The president has threatened to veto it because of the extra money, but the margin, 89-4, suggests it would be a futile gesture. Bush, who nonchalantly watched federal spending increase almost 60 percent on his watch, has suddenly become concerned about money now that Democrats are doing the spending. http://www.morningsentinel.com/news/2007/0807/Commentary_Cent/011.html
It is all about priorities.
Bush wants to create more terrorism looting Iraqi oil
instead of securing this nation's borders.
In bed with corrupt corporate crooks again,
at the expense of American citizens.