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Friday, February 07, 2003
Sure he's already got an XBox and and a Playstation 2...but he wants the Gamecube now. And then there's the new games....
Citing the high price of mindless entertainment for the mindless these days, President Gimme Gimme Gimme, is asking for a 9.3 % increase in White House "Operations" funding in the new budget, while everyone else is being asked to cut back.
For the Executive Office of the President, the broad category including most White House operations, the administration has requested $341.2 million for fiscal 2004. That compares with a request of $312.2 million for fiscal 2003 -- excluding $16.8 million for the White House Office of Homeland Security that was switched to the Department of Homeland Security budget for 2004.
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Even without the $16.8 billion from 2003 that the White House is shifting elsewhere in fiscal 2004, Call said various "security related" factors have increased costs for 2004.
"I wouldn't want to say it's the bulk, but it certainly is a contributing factor," she said.
President Bush has proposed holding discretionary spending (excluding programs such as Social Security and Medicare) to $782.2 billion, a 4.1 percent increase.
"I will send you a budget that increases discretionary spending by 4 percent next year -- about as much as the average family's income is expected to grow," the president said in his State of the Union address last month. "And that is a good benchmark for us. Federal spending should not rise any faster than the paychecks of American families."
He lied.
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