On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 12:59:13 EST, <SergioL652 at aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 1/25/2004 9:59:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, debsian at pacbell.net writes: that, for example funding at the US Dept. of Education is up 70%. EPA as well, though not by that much! Kind of misleading. The budget mey be up, but congrtional set-asides amkes it so that there is actually about 20-30% less operating budget. We can't get $ for travel or training and we are cutting contracts like crazy just to keep the FTEs we have.
Sergio
(Steve, I have e-mail stripper. I am discontinuing that weird quoting style I have used where I go like so...Karl Marx>...A spectre is haunting Europe...) as too many have told me it confuses them...what am I saying? What are they saying...?)
Heh, wasn't trying to imply that at any of the civilian, non-NSDAP police state depts., that levels of increased funding (like the uptick of 20+% at the federal dept. of education, due, mostly, I assume, to the, "No Child Left Behind Act, " which lots of rural and inner city teachers and admins. are not in favor of, in my observation, and from queries to public school teachers, I know here in Ca., NYC and rural Colorado and Iowa, where I have extended family who are school teachers, from whom I have spoken with.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Big+Government+Bush
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/politics/25CONS.html "A Concerned Bloc of Republicans Wonders Whether Bush Is Conservative Enough." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/politics/22FISC.html "Conservative Republicans Push for Slowdown in U.S. Spending." http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett090803.asp http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=S') 8%20%2FQA%2B%24!0%23T%0A http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030718-040025-1117r.htm
Ahem, CATO Inst. #/%'ers so, fwiw! And these combine Clinton FY's and Dubya. http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=a19dbe95- fa2d-4e4e-ac2e-333ef16a8b46 U.S. FEDERAL SPENDING SINCE REPUBLICANS TOOK CONTROL OF CONGRESS: Annual increase in total federal outlays, excluding interest:
In billions of dollars:
1990: 94
1991: 61
1992: 53
1993: 28
1994: 48
1995: 25
1996: 36
1997: 37
1998: 55
1999: 60
2000: 94
2001: 92
2002: 182
2003: 173
2004: 224
U.S. FEDERAL SPENDING SINCE REPUBLICANS TOOK CONTROL OF CONGRESS: Growth in outlays by federal department under the Republicans, FY1995-FY2004:
Justice: 125%
Labor: 99%
Education: 94%
Health: 80%
Commerce: 71%
State: 66%
Veteran Affairs: 63%
Defense: 50%
Transportation: 45%
Interior: 39%
Agriculture: 38%
Housing/Urban: 31%
Energy: 20%
Treasury: 10%
Source: CATO Institute
-- Michael Pugliese
>From "Marx at the Millenium, " by Cyril Smith, Pluto Press. Footnote 5, pg.
178, "...The Three Priciples of Democratic Centralism...by Don Cuckson: 1
Father Knows Best 2 Not in front of the children 3 Keep it in the family.